Sozialpolitik nach der Wiedervereinigung

Ostheim, Tobias; Schmidt, Manfred G.

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“…Following the post-war economic depression, the rapid economic growth and the expansion of the welfare state during the Wirtschaftswunder of the 1950s and 1960s led to full employment, rising living conditions and social security, which is likely to have benefitted particularly people at the bottom of the income distribution (see Atkinson, 2008: 230;Kaelble, 2007: 187-8). By contrast, the relative economic security of this group can be expected to have declined during the period following the 1970s' Oil Crisis, which saw a substantial increase in unemployment, economic inequality, relative poverty and a retrenchment of unemployment benefits for people with low unemployment insurance contribution records (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, 2001;Eichhorst and Marx, 2011;Emmenegger et al, 2012;Leibfried et al, 1995; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011; Ostheim and Schmidt, 2007).…”

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Left behind? Over-time change in the social mobility of children from unskilled working-class backgrounds in Germany

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2019

Acta Sociologica

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Research on intergenerational social mobility tends to focus on examining the level of overall social fluidity in society. However, from a social justice perspective it can be argued that the type of social fluidity that matters most is upward mobility from the lowest rung of the social ladder. This article examines the labour market chances of children from parents in unskilled working-class positions, relative to children from skilled working-class and higher social class backgrounds, and how they have changed across four birth cohorts in post-WWII Germany. We find that individuals from unskilled working-class backgrounds have substantially lower labour market chances than individuals from skilled working-class backgrounds or higher social class backgrounds. Moreover, we find that the gap in labour market chances between individuals from unskilled working-class backgrounds and individuals from more advantaged backgrounds has not narrowed but, if anything, has widened across the four birth cohorts we examine. Our results suggest that an important factor underlying this sustained labour market inequality is a persistently high level of educational inequality between these groups.

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