SOCIAL MOBILITY PATTERNS IN ROMANIA
SOCIAL MOBILITY PATTERNS IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: My work is a contribution to the social mobility literature by discussing the case of Romania in a wider context. The article will present and explain the mobility patterns of five historical cohorts, with accents of men and women (dis)similarities, born in different socio-historical contexts. They are related to various social classes, which influence their life trajectories and chances for social mobility (e.g. men tend to move upwards, the high status classes maintain their positions, the members of the younger cohorts are more mobile etc.). My intention is to describe the current intergenerational social mobility in Romania, and the differences related to the mobility rates between cohorts of individuals born in distinct periods. I will search after explanations for these differences, implied by complex methodologies (such as logistic regressions, dissimilarity index or origin-destination cross-tabulations). The analyses of the intergenerational mobility rates, both absolute and relative (odds ratios), will be done with a critical eye on the limitations impose by these rates.

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