Social Mobility in the 20th Century : Class Mobility and Occupational Change in the United States and Germany

• Main Author: Hertel, Florian R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Industrial sociology.; Demography.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783658147853
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-14785-3
• Physical Description: XII, 391 p. 52 illus. online resource.

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 dif...