ABSTRACT
Socioeconomic development is associated with dynamic changes in the utilization of the work force and, consequently, with rapid changes in the socio-occupational structure. In Poland, as in other socialist countries, these changes have resulted not only from a transformation of the economy but also from a new political system. Changes in the membership of socio-occupational groups which are associated with changes in the social structure are termed social mobility. The total amount of mobility is the sum of intergenerational mobility and intragenerational mobility. Social mobility is very often associated with attainment of a higher level of education, and it is also frequently related to migration. The socioeconomic position of parents at the time of a respondent's first job was taken as the point of departure in the analysis of social mobility. Similar trends, though of differing intensity, appear in most occupational groups, both white- and blue-collar.
