"Parts of the chapters were presented at a conference to honour Walter Müller in Mannheim, January 26, 2007"--P. [7].
Introduction : from origin to destination / Reinhard Pollak ... [et al.]
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 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
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 individualization : empirical implications of general descriptions of society / Ulrich Kohler.
From origin to destination : trends and mechanisms in social stratification research : essays in honour of Walter Müller. ISBN 9783593384115. Published by Campus Verlag in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.