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In Argentina, which might be labelled an early-late industrializing country, previous evaluations on temporal and educational class mobility were called intoquestion when dealing with birth cohorts for integrated surveys within a limitedtime nospan. Hence, we now propose a new exploration of the strength and patterns of intergenerational class mobility based on what might be considered truebirth cohorts, resting on nine surveys from 1961 to 2014/5. While gaining in temporal scope, unfortunately these dataset had to be restricted to the largest urbanconcentration of Argentina, the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, which includesaround a third of the national population.Our preceding studies had observed that temporal and educational associationof class origins and destinations tended to show an invariance of social fluidity, ora stronger origin-destination association from older to younger birth cohorts orfrom lower to higher educational levels. That is, the persistent inequality hypothesis, first proposed by Blossfeld and Shavit (1993), seemed to be supported. And when new exercises based on decomposition and counterfactuals analyses of therole of education were performed, in spite of a relevant educational expansion inthe country they have not practically challenged the previous basic findings. Results for Argentina, closer to the first studies by Erikson and Golthorpe (1992), arenot in line with several other studies for early industrialized nations (Breen andLuijkx 2004 conclusions, Breen 2009), while no common patterns seem to emergefor late industrialized countries (Ishida and Miwa, 2011).This new approximation, resting now on true birth cohorts taking into accountsome preliminary explorations for period effects-, will allow us to carry out a review of our earlier findings supporting the persistent inequality hypothesis.

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