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Spatial Determinants of Social Mobility: An Analysis with Life History Data for Three West German Cohorts

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Migration and Labor Market Adjustment

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During the last years research on social mobility emphasized the theoretical relevance of time-related concepts. In combination with the availability of individual life-course data it became possible to identify age, cohort, period or duration effects on rates of job change (Blossfeld, 1986). Here we argue that it is time to incorporate the spatial dimension into models of social mobility as well. In a life course perspective this means the residential history of individuals, especially variations of the regional context, has to be linked systematically to the occupational career.

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Wagner, M. (1989). Spatial Determinants of Social Mobility: An Analysis with Life History Data for Three West German Cohorts. In: Van Dijk, J., Folmer, H., Herzog, H.W., Schlottmann, A.M. (eds) Migration and Labor Market Adjustment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7846-2_11

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