Social fluidity in Germany

Abstract

Following from the social fluidity model presented in the preceding chapter, Table 43 summarizes the different effects which are expected to govern the intergenerational association between origins and destinations in Germany. By constraining the 13 empty cells to take an interaction parameter of zero, the sum of the values of the parameter effects within each cell can be interpreted in line with Erikson and Goldthorpe as the propensity to be mobile relative to a neutral fluidity level, i.e. the fluidity in cells without any parameter, net of the fitted margins. While this arbitrary reference level reduces the interpretability of the strength of each single parameter, the common reference group allows to compare the size of fluidity parameters against each other.