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Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic differences were initially large but declined over time. At the end of the 20th century, however, mobility prospects turned to the worse in both countries. In light of these findings, the book develops a narrative account of historical socio-political developments that are likely to have driven the basic resemblances across countries but also account for the initial decline and the more recent increase in intergenerational inequality.

International labour migration is one of the major issues of our time. Records at present total around 200 million people working outside their country of birth. This rapidly increasing phenomenon is examined in a large number of studies on migration, most of which, however, focus on experiences and practicalities of migrants at the place of destination. In this study, we provide insight into another issue of migration study by presenting occupational prestige as an indicator of social mobility of Thai labour brokers who were return migrants from overseas employment. The data was collected via structured interview with 321 samples obtained by systematic sampling from all provinces in the Northeast of Thailand during the years 2010-2011. Data analysis for social mobility was performed based on occupational prestige. The results indicated that occupational prestige of labour brokers (0.1934) was higher than their former occupational prestige for agricultural occupations (-0.3100) and industrial/service occupations (0.1800). Moreover, social mobility of labour brokers could be classified in the upper vertical mobility category of the "Occupational Mobility."

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Content -- Figures -- Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social change and social mobility -- 2.1 Societal change and the occupational structure -- 2.2 Social mobility in industrial and post-industrial societies -- 2.3 Same, same but different? -- 3 Class and intergenerational mobility in contemporary societies -- 3.1 Gradational concepts of social inequality -- 3.2 Micro-classes and occupational class inequalities -- 3.3 Employment relations and social class: the EGP scheme -- 3.4 Exploitation and social class: Wright's class scheme -- 3.5 Social class and work logics: the Oesch scheme -- 3.6 Class and the division of labor: the Esping-Andersen scheme -- 4 The derivation of the IPICS class scheme -- 4.1 Horizontal differentiation according to the work logic -- 4.2 Vertical differentiation according to employment relations -- 4.3 Gender, race and class -- 4.4 Social mobility and IPICS -- 5 Horizontal and vertical stratification of occupational positions -- 5.1 Testing the validity of the IPICS classes -- 5.2 Horizontal differences between occupations -- 5.3 Vertical differences between occupations -- 6 Datasets, Operationalization and conceptual issues -- 6.1 Employed datasets for the analysis of social mobility -- 6.2 Occupational classifications and IPICS -- 6.3 Sample and cohort design -- 7 Empirical description of industrial and post-industrial classes -- 7.1 Socio-demographic composition -- 7.2 Class and educational assets -- 7.3 Class and economic assets -- 7.4 Class profiles -- 7.5 Class and structural change -- 8 Absolute Mobility in Germany over the 20th century -- 8.1 Changing distributions of education, origin and social class -- 8.2 Aggregated mobility patterns -- 8.3 Changing aggregated absolute mobility patterns -- 8.4 The evolution of segment-specific outflow mobility patterns -- 8.5 Summary.

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Themen: Soziale Herkunft; Beruf.

Indizes: Wohlstand; soziales Ansehen des Berufes;
Schichtidentifikation.

Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter (klassiert); Familienstand; Konfession;
Ortsgröße; Haushaltseinkommen; Schulbildung; Berufsausbildung;
Berufstätigkeit; Beruf; berufliche Position; soziale Herkunft;
Haushaltungsvorstand; Bundesland; Weiterbildung.

The occupational mobility of migrants is one of the key characteristics of their economic integration. The article analyzes the occupational mobility of immigrants from their countries of origin to Russia and its main determinants. Mobility of migrants from the last job at home to the first job in Russia and from the first job to the current job in Russia is considered. The empirical basis is the data of a representative survey of migrants (more than 8500 citizens of the CIS countries and Georgia. The evidence shows that immigrant occupational mobility is characterized by a combination of large-scale intense initial downgrading when migrants enter the Russian labor market and a limited occupational progress during their stay in Russia. Higher education and Russian proficiency reduce the risks of downward mobility during the transition from the last job in the home country to the first job in Russia, but their influence on the economic integration of migrants is very limited. A significant factor is the structure of the regional market: the larger the proportion of people employed in labor-intensive service industries, the higher the likelihood of immigrant occupational downgrading. The evidence for Russia is more in line with the proposal of segmented assimilation theory, which suggests that immigrants experience has limited or blocked occupational mobility.