1Introduction: Social Mobility and Education in the Twentieth Century Richard Breen, Walter Müller
2Methodological Preliminaries Richard Breen
3The Land of Opportunity? Trends in Social Mobility and Education in the United States Florian R. Hertel, Fabian T. Pfeffer
4Sweden, the Middle Way? Trends and Patterns in Social Mobility and Educational Inequality Richard Breen, Jan O. Jonsson
5Intergenerational Mobility and Social Fluidity in France over Birth Cohorts and Age: The Role of Education Louis-André Vallet
6Education as an Equalizing Force: How Declining Education Inequality and Educational Expansion Have Contributed to More Social Fluidity in Germany Reinhard Pollak, Walter Müller
7The Swiss El Dorado? Education and Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Switzerland Julie Falcon
8The Role of Education in the Social Mobility of Dutch Cohorts, 1908–1974 Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Eline Berkers
9Education and Social Fluidity in Contemporary Italy: An Analysis of Cohort Trends Carlo Barone, Raffaele Guetto
10Intergenerational Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Spain: Social Fluidity without Educational Equalization? Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Fabrizio Bernardi, Ruud Luijkx
11Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century in Europe and the United States Richard Breen and Walter Müller