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Preface

Introduction: from origin to destination
Reinhard Pollak/Gunnar Otte/Stefani Scherer/Markus Gangl

I. Trends and mechanisms in educational inequality and social mobility

The persistence of persistent inequality
Yossi Shavit/Meir Yaish/Eyal Bar-Haim

Social selection in Stockholm schools: primary and secondary effects on the transition to upper secondary education
Robert Erikson

"Cultural capital": some critical observations
John H. Goldthorpe

Social mobility and education: a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain and Germany
Richard Breen/Ruud Luijkx

Variations on a theme: trends in social mobility in (West) Germany for cohorts born between 1919 and 1971
Karl Ulrich Mayer/Silke Aisenbrey

II. Special issues in current stratification research

Self-employment and social stratification
Richard Arum

Youth unemployment in the enlarged European Union
Irena Kogan/Marge Unt/Ellu Saar

Disentangling recent trends of the second generation's structural assimilation in Germany
Frank Kalter/Nadia Granato/Cornelia Kristen

Lessons from social mobility research: could the index discussion in occupational sex segregation benefit?
Johann Handl/Stephanie Steinmetz

Linked lives in modern societies. The impact on social inequality of increasing educational homogamy and the shift towards dual-earner couples
Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Containers, Europeanisation and individualisation: empirical implications of general descriptions of society
Ulrich Kohler

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