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Based on large national samples of male labour forces, the paper investigates differences in the amount and pattern of worklife mobility in France and Germany during the five year period 1965–70. The findings are compatible with the hypothesis of a dominantly organizational mobility space in France and a dominantly qualificational mobility space in Germany. In Germany, people are sorted into a narrow range of occupations and orderly career lines according to educational certification. In France, occupational placement during worklife is less dependent on generally valid credentials but more on specific work and training experiences and on attributes of the employing firm. In consequence, much more mobility occurs in France than in Germany, but mobility of a less orderly and directed kind.
König et al. (Mon,) studied this question.