TY - BOOK ID - 49455608 TI - Social mobility in Europe PY - 2004 SN - 9786612052774 1282052772 0191531685 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social mobility KW - Mobility, Social KW - Sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49455608 AB - Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date of trends in intergenerational social mobility. It uses data from 11 European countries covering the last 30 years of the twentieth century to analyze differences between countries and changes through time. The findings call into question several long-standing views about social mobility. We find a growing similarity between countries in their class structures and rates of absolute mobility: in other words, the countries of Europe are now more alike in their flows between class origins and destinations than they were thirty year ER -