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Social fluidity in the United States of America

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After studying social fluidity in Germany in the chapter before, the present chapter is dedicated to the analysis of social fluidity in the United States. In the following, the American variant of the social fluidity model will be explained. Initially, the model is applied to American data (Ch. 12.1).

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Hertel, F.R. (2017). Social fluidity in the United States of America. In: Social Mobility in the 20th Century. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14785-3_12

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