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cline in educational inequality between students coming from different social origins.
Their results are robust to other possible choices of method and variables, and the
authors offer some explanations of why their findings contradict Shavit and Blossfeld's
conclusions. [...] Our data come from nine European countries-Germany,
France, Italy, Ireland, Britain, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlandsandthey
were originally assembled for a comparative analysis of social mobility in
Europe (Breen 2004). That project sought to bring together all the high-quality data
sets collected between 1970 and 2000 in 11 European countries that could be used
for the analysis of social mobility. The data used here are identical to those employed
in that project except that the German data have been augmented by six surveys.
These six surveys contain the first three German Life History Surveys for West Germany
(fielded between 1981 and 1989) as well as the 2000 sample for West Germany
from the German Socio-economic Panel and the ALLBUS Surveys for 2000 and
2002."
1 Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Start-Up Workshop of the
EDUC Research Theme of the Sixth EU Framework Network of Excellence, "Economic
Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC)," Mannheim,
December 2-3, 2005; the meeting of Research Committee 28 (ISA) Inequality and
Mobility in Family, School, and Work, Los Angeles, August 18-21, 2005; a meeting
of the Inter-university Working Group on Social Inequality and Life Course, Utrecht,
June 22, 2005; and the Euresco conference "European Society or European Societies?
EuroConference on the Causes and Consequences of Low Education in Contemporary
Europe," Granada, September 18-23, 2004. We are grateful for comments
and suggestions made at these meetings. The data used in this article were kindly
made available to us by the following people, to whom we are most grateful: Louis-
André Vallet (France), Maurizio Pisati and Antonio Schizzerotto (Italy), Christopher
T. Whelan and Richard Layte (Ireland), John Goldthorpe and Colin Mills (Great
Britain), Jan O. Jonsson (Sweden), Bogdan Mach (Poland), Péter Róbert and
Erzsébet Bukodi (Hungary), and Harry Ganzeboom (Netherlands).
Aufgenommen: 24. Fassung, Februar 2010
Breen, Richard, Luijkx, Ruud, Müller, Walter und Pollak, Reinhard, (2010). Longterm
Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences.
European Sociological Review, 26: 31-48.
Abstract: "Using data for seven European countries we analyse trends among women
in class differences in educational attainment over the first two-thirds of the 20th
century. We also compare educational attainment between men and women; we ask
whether class differences among the two sexes are similar or not; and whether trends
in class differences over birth cohorts have differed between men and women. We
find that, as expected, over the 20th century, inequalities between men and women in
their educational attainment declined markedly. More importantly, changes in class
inequalities in educational attainment have been similar for both men and women,