Early Career Mobility and Social Mobility in the Process of Systemic Transformation. A Comparison of East Germany and Poland

The project aims to study patterns of early employment career mobility and to relate them to the process of intergenerational mobility. In a comparison of two post socialist states Germany and Poland it focuses on mechanisms sustaining and counterbalancing mobility events in the course of transition to market economy. In this way the project attempts to develop a theoretical link between intragenerational and intergenerational mobility offering a novel approach to study issues of mobility and social stratification. The research stay at the sociology department of the Polish Science Academy will create favorable conditions for the project to combine the perspective of the German life history research with Polish social stratification research in the transformation period allowing it to become an important contribution in the field of social mobility and transformation research.