Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Papers
(The median citation count of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Routine-biased technological change does not always lead to polarisation: Evidence from 10 OECD countries, 1995–201354
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage29
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China21
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries19
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?19
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 197116
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level16
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study15
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment15
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?14
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent14
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition13
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective13
The when and the how of the emergence of social inequality in mental health: Exploring social causation and health selection through employment transitions12
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland11
Is it the school of fish or the size of the pond that matters? An experimental examination of reference group effects in secondary school11
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case10
Understanding differences in children’s reading ability by social origin and gender: The role of parental reading and pre- and primary school exposure in Ireland10
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries10
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records10
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well10
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating9
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Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States8
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education7
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)7
Intragenerational occupational mobility of South Korea, 1998–2017: Implications of the gendered life course approach for mobility and inequality studies7
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy7
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification7
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies7
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”7
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China6
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution6
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–20156
Does the impact of the family increase or decrease over the life course? Sibling similarities in occupational status across different career points6
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills6
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite6
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities6
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools6
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Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China5
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes5
Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market5
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland5
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany5
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices5
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America4
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research4
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The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium4
Navigating bias? An assessment of access to, use of, and returns to social capital in the school-to-work transition of descendants of immigrants4
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 19504
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination4
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated4
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–20184
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe4
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The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago4
To work or to study? Postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany – Evidence from a choice experiment4
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny4
Same major, same economic returns? College selectivity and earnings inequality in young adulthood4
Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes4
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age4
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States4
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany3
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Hiring discrimination against foreigners in multi-ethnic labour markets: Does recruiter nationality matter? Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Luxembourg3
Rob Mare’s research trajectory as a model of cumulative science3
Is universal early childhood education and care an equalizer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence3
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men3
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–20103
Personality traits as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps and glass ceilings3
The U-turn in educational inequality. Why a multidimensional approach matters for measuring social inequalities in tertiary educational attainment3
Heritability of class and status: Implications for sociological theory and research3
Shadow education, pandemic style: Social class, race, and supplemental education during Covid-193
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–20153
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China3
Context in continuity: The enduring legacy of neighborhood disadvantage across generations3
Graduates’ early wages in Germany: Does a university’s status of excellence make the difference?3
Racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health3
Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender-specific?3
Occupational origin effects on wage and market income (inequality): The cases of Spain and Germany2
The legacy of Robert D. Mare2
The association between parental separation at the school level and student outcomes in four European Countries2
The gendered character of claims-making: A longitudinal analysis2
Human capital and the upward occupational mobility of rural migrant workers in China2
Family, school, neighbourhood or all three: Differences in tertiary educational achievement among the Russian ethno-linguistic minority in Tallinn Urban Region, Estonia2
Welfare regime patterns in the social class-fertility relationship: Second births in Austria, France, Norway, and the United Kingdom2
Earnings trajectories of individuals in same-sex and different-sex couples: Evidence from administrative data2
The summer parental investment gap? Socioeconomic gaps in the seasonality of parental expenditures and time with school-age children2
Intersections of gender and immigrant status in Japan: Analysis of the 2020 Basic Survey on Wage Structure2
Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia2
Multigenerational coresidence and parental time in developmental childcare in China2
Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan2
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Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources2
Positional education and intergenerational status transmission in Brazil2
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Occupational mobility and biological well-being: A perspective over three generations in rural Spain, 1835–19592
Educational mobility across three generations of Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking Finns2
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation2
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration2
Mare’s model of education transitions: Reflections on a powerful continuing resource for understanding2
Does ability grouping affect UK primary school pupils’ enjoyment of Maths and English?2
Occupational marginalization, underemployment, and earnings inequality among college graduates2
Heterogeneity or consistency across life domains? An analysis of disparities between second-generation migrants and the Swedish majority population2
Does employability help to cope with job insecurity? An analysis of workers' well-being with Swiss panel data2
Heterogeneity, selection, and the policy effect of educational expansion on college graduate earnings in China, 1981–20152
Explaining differences in decision-relevant educational knowledge between parents with and without an immigrant background in Germany2
COVID-19–associated discrimination in Germany2
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Social class, parenting, and child development: A multidimensional approach1
Why do trends in social fluidity at labour market entry and occupational maturity differ? Evidence from Germany and the UK1
Employer preferences for vocational over general education: evidence from an employer survey experiment1
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Local historical context and multigenerational socioeconomic attainment1
The importance of intergenerational stability for the social origins of undereducation and overeducation1
Intragenerational wage mobility and social disadvantage: A comparative study of West Germany and the United States1
Sibling similarity in income: A life course perspective1
Explaining class differences in educational attainment in Japan: An empirical test of the Breen and Goldthorpe model1
Segplot: A new method for visualizing patterns of multi-group segregation1
American versus East Asian norms and labor market institutions affecting socioeconomic inequality1
The gender gap in earnings growth at the early stage of work careers in Korea1
Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited1
University prestige, cultural distance of the place of education, and wage differences between high-skilled U.S. immigrants with foreign and domestic credentials1
Division of household labor in urban China: Couples’ education pairing and co-residence with parents1
Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina: 1960–20171
Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK COVID-191
Global value chains and racial inequality in the US labor market, 1979–20171
Childcare utilisation by migration background: Evidence from a nationally representative Irish cohort study1
The contribution of work values to early career mobility1
The early years1
Inequality in East Asia1
Do the institutionally disadvantaged students benefit more from boarding at school in their studying? The role of migration and Hukou status in China1
High schools and intergenerational mobility1
Aging and the rise in bottom income inequality in Korea1
Revisiting the historical trend of educational stratification in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia1
Gene-environment interactions and school tracking during secondary education: Evidence from the U.S.1
Beyond parental wealth: Grandparental wealth and the transition to adulthood1
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice1
Starting flexible, always flexible? The relation of early temporary employment and young workers employment trajectories in the Netherlands1
Compensatory advantage and inequality in educational aspirations1
GENDER BLINDNESS IN THE RESEARCH ON THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF EDUCATION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES1
Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples1
From social origin to selective high school courses: Ability grouping as a mechanism of securing social advantage in Israeli secondary education1
Comparing the social and spatial mobility across UK regions – Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts1
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Gender employment gap at arrival and its dynamics: The case of refugees in Germany1
Gender-oriented statistical discrimination: Aggregate fertility, economic sector, and earnings among young Chinese workers1
Disability and the widening gap in mid-life wealth accumulation: A longitudinal examination1
Finding a job: An intersectional analysis of search strategies and outcomes among U.S. STEM graduates1
The effects of state-managed marketplaces on out-of-pocket health care costs: Before and after the Affordable Care Act1
Intergenerational poverty persistence in Europe – Is there a ‘Great Gatsby Curve’ for poverty?1
The primary effect of ethnic origin – rooted in early childhood? An analysis of the educational disadvantages of Turkish-origin children during the transition to secondary education in Germany1
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