Trends in social mobility in Romania since the Middle of the Twentieth Century. Economical change as an explicative factor of the social mobility

One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the mid-twenty century is the occupational change due to the modifications produced in the economic sectors. The pattern of upward social mobility can change because the parents of younger birth-cohorts (people born since the 1960's) have already benefited from upward social mobility so there is less scope for further upward mobility of their descendents. This paper aims to verify if the pattern of constant absolute social mobility applies to Romanian context, if some changes have occurred in the regime of social mobility in Romania since the middle of the twentieth century, and how much are these due to the dynamic from the occupational structure.