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Introduction Introduction
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Main Features and Evolutions of the Swiss Educational System Main Features and Evolutions of the Swiss Educational System
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Previous Research on Educational Inequality and Social Mobility in Switzerland Previous Research on Educational Inequality and Social Mobility in Switzerland
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Data, Population, and Variables Data, Population, and Variables
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Trends in Educational Expansion and Educational Inequality Trends in Educational Expansion and Educational Inequality
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Trends in Labour Market Tertiarization and Returns to Education Trends in Labour Market Tertiarization and Returns to Education
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Trends in Social Mobility Rates Trends in Social Mobility Rates
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Social Fluidity Trends in the OED Triangle Social Fluidity Trends in the OED Triangle
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KHB Decomposition KHB Decomposition
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Simulations Simulations
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Discussion Discussion
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Notes Notes
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Seven The Swiss El Dorado? Education and Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Switzerland
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Published:February 2020
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Abstract
Until fairly recently little was known about trends in intergenerational social mobility in Switzerland and the mediating role of education in this process. With lasting high standards of living, big shares of vocational education and training (VET), and wide development of tertiary sector, Switzerland constitutes an interesting case to test modernization theory. Yet this analysis, drawn from a tailor-made dataset constructed from nineteen surveys representative of the Swiss population and collected between 1975 and 2013, leads us to reject expectations from this theory. While educational reforms have contributed to increase access to postcompulsory education, the influence of social background on educational attainment and on occupational destiny has not substantially declined throughout the twentieth century in Switzerland. In light of all this, and despite its economic prosperity and its high standards of living, Switzerland remains far from being a social mobility El Dorado.
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