ABSTRACT
I discuss here the findings of a project that looks at social mobility in 11 European countries over a period of almost 30 years (see Breen 2004 for details). I want to summarize some of the main results and discuss how they relate to previous research in this area; and I also want to make some comments about the consequences of this research and of these findings for the study of social mobility. But I will begin by briefly explaining what the project is all about.
