Education and intergenerational social mobility in Europe and the United States / edited by Richard Breen and Walter Müller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : social mobility and education in the twentieth century / Richard Breen and Walter Müller -- Methodological preliminaries / Richard Breen -- The land of opportunity? : trends in social mobility and education in the United States / Florian R. Hertel and Fabian T. Pfeffer -- Sweden, the middle way? : trends and patterns in social mobility and educational inequality / Richard Breen and Jan O. Jonsson -- Intergenerational mobility and social fluidity in France over birth cohorts and age : the role of education / Louis-Andre Vallet -- Education as an equalizing force : how declining educational inequality and educational expansion have contributed to more social fluidity in Germany / Reinhard Pollak and Walter Müller -- The Swiss Eldorado? : education and social mobility in twentieth-century Switzerland / Julie Falcon -- The role of education in the social mobility of Dutch cohorts, 1908-1974 / Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx and Eline Berkers -- Education and social fluidity in contemporary Italy : an analysis of cohort trends / Carlo Barone and Raffaele Guetto -- Intergenerational social mobility in twentieth-century Spain : social fluidity without educational equalization? / Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Fabrizio Bernardi, and Ruud Luijkx -- Social mobility in the twentiethth century in Europe and the United States / Richard Breen and Walter Müller.

A comprehensive study of trends in intergenerational social mobility during the 20th century, this book examines the role of educational expansion and equalization in shaping these developments in both Europe and the United States.

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