This volume of Comparative Social Research emphasizes unsolved issues and new developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both theoretical and methodological innovations and revisions.

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...

Der Autor beschreibt Handlungsoptionen für die unterschiedlichen Bildungsbereiche und begründet konkrete Vorschläge und Anregungen für deren praktische Umsetzung. Deutlich wird, dass die eher isolierte Betrachtung der einzelnen Bildungsinstitutionen (Schule, Hochschule, berufliche und...

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We...

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....