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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries28
Editorial Board22
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review19
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 197118
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level17
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China16
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage16
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study14
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?14
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States12
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe12
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment12
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis11
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition11
Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants10
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland10
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?10
Is it the school of fish or the size of the pond that matters? An experimental examination of reference group effects in secondary school10
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent10
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective10
Understanding differences in children’s reading ability by social origin and gender: The role of parental reading and pre- and primary school exposure in Ireland9
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades9
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning9
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility9
Editorial Board8
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries8
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account8
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records8
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating8
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well8
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case8
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies8
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States7
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification7
Intragenerational occupational mobility of South Korea, 1998–2017: Implications of the gendered life course approach for mobility and inequality studies7
Editorial Board7
The impact of economic fluctuations on health inequalities in Europe: Evidence from 29 countries between 2005 and 20157
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education7
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”7
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)7
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite7
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy7
Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education6
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy6
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools6
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–20156
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany6
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills6
Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries6
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China6
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities6
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland5
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America5
Editorial Board5
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium5
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
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes5
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain5
Editorial Board5
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago5
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 19505
Navigating bias? An assessment of access to, use of, and returns to social capital in the school-to-work transition of descendants of immigrants5
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States5
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age5
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–20184
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–20154
The U-turn in educational inequality. Why a multidimensional approach matters for measuring social inequalities in tertiary educational attainment4
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–20104
Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes4
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe4
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination4
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny4
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany4
Editorial Board4
Did social change strengthen genetic associations? Gendered educational attainment before and after German reunification4
Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education4
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China4
Managerial decisions on older workers’ training: A vignette study on the interplay of worker and manager characteristics4
Editorial Board4
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men4
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research4
Editorial Board3
Is universal early childhood education and care an equalizer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence3
Shadow education, pandemic style: Social class, race, and supplemental education during Covid-193
Multigenerational coresidence and parental time in developmental childcare in China3
Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan3
Occupational origin effects on wage and market income (inequality): The cases of Spain and Germany3
Graduates’ early wages in Germany: Does a university’s status of excellence make the difference?3
The legacy of names. Persistence in social status in Sweden 1865–20153
Heritability of class and status: Implications for sociological theory and research3
Editorial Board3
Parental contextual education and educational mobility among the children of Asian American immigrants3
The legacy of Robert D. Mare3
Hiring discrimination against foreigners in multi-ethnic labour markets: Does recruiter nationality matter? Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Luxembourg3
Does ability grouping affect UK primary school pupils’ enjoyment of Maths and English?3
Rob Mare’s research trajectory as a model of cumulative science3
Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender-specific?3
The association between parental separation at the school level and student outcomes in four European Countries3
Human capital and the upward occupational mobility of rural migrant workers in China3
Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia3
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration3
Family, school, neighbourhood or all three: Differences in tertiary educational achievement among the Russian ethno-linguistic minority in Tallinn Urban Region, Estonia3
Family formation and occupational status: Premium or penalties for women?3
Racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health3
The summer parental investment gap? Socioeconomic gaps in the seasonality of parental expenditures and time with school-age children2
Mare’s model of education transitions: Reflections on a powerful continuing resource for understanding2
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
Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina: 1960–20172
Do the institutionally disadvantaged students benefit more from boarding at school in their studying? The role of migration and Hukou status in China2
Division of household labor in urban China: Couples’ education pairing and co-residence with parents2
Compensatory advantage and inequality in educational aspirations2
University prestige, cultural distance of the place of education, and wage differences between high-skilled U.S. immigrants with foreign and domestic credentials2
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
Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources2
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation2
Social class, parenting, and child development: A multidimensional approach2
Editorial Board2
Gendered responses to unfair pay: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment among employees in German firms2
Doing gender and the surname choices of married women2
Gender blindness in the research on the economic value of education: Theoretical and methodological causes and consequences2
Occupational mobility and biological well-being: A perspective over three generations in rural Spain, 1835–19592
The gendered character of claims-making: A longitudinal analysis2
Positional education and intergenerational status transmission in Brazil2
Earnings trajectories of individuals in same-sex and different-sex couples: Evidence from administrative data2
Intersections of gender and immigrant status in Japan: Analysis of the 2020 Basic Survey on Wage Structure2
American versus East Asian norms and labor market institutions affecting socioeconomic inequality2
Starting flexible, always flexible? The relation of early temporary employment and young workers employment trajectories in the Netherlands2
Gene-environment interactions and school tracking during secondary education: Evidence from the U.S.2
Explaining differences in decision-relevant educational knowledge between parents with and without an immigrant background in Germany2
Why do trends in social fluidity at labour market entry and occupational maturity differ? Evidence from Germany and the UK1
Gender employment gap at arrival and its dynamics: The case of refugees in Germany1
The gender gap in earnings growth at the early stage of work careers in Korea1
The effects of state-managed marketplaces on out-of-pocket health care costs: Before and after the Affordable Care Act1
Editorial Board1
An approach to social mobility in African countries: Is there a transmission of education, occupation, or income from parents to children?1
When the wall is broken: Rural-to-Urban migration, perceived inequality, and subjective social status in China1
Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples1
Childcare utilisation by migration background: Evidence from a nationally representative Irish cohort study1
Editorial Board1
Editorial Board1
Beyond parental wealth: Grandparental wealth and the transition to adulthood1
Occupational class and income stratification in South Korea, 1998–20221
Origin, destination, or mobility? A systematic review of studies using diagonal reference models1
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice1
Employer preferences for vocational over general education: evidence from an employer survey experiment1
Aging and the rise in bottom income inequality in Korea1
The contribution of work values to early career mobility1
Educational mobility and subjective well-being from an intergenerational perspective1
Mothers’ nonstandard work schedules and children’s behavior problems: Divergent patterns by maternal education1
From social origin to selective high school courses: Ability grouping as a mechanism of securing social advantage in Israeli secondary education1
Revisiting the historical trend of educational stratification in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia1
High schools and intergenerational mobility1
Intergenerational poverty persistence in Europe – Is there a ‘Great Gatsby Curve’ for poverty?1
Who opts out of neighborhood schools? Determinants and consequences of school choice strategies in China1
Global value chains and racial inequality in the US labor market, 1979–20171
The importance of intergenerational stability for the social origins of undereducation and overeducation1
Disability and the widening gap in mid-life wealth accumulation: A longitudinal examination1
The early years1
Intragenerational wage mobility and social disadvantage: A comparative study of West Germany and the United States1
Finding a job: An intersectional analysis of search strategies and outcomes among U.S. STEM graduates1
Segplot: A new method for visualizing patterns of multi-group segregation1
Editorial Board1
Upward track mobility into academic upper secondary education: Effects of challenging parental expectations, immigrant origin, and older siblings on students' educational choices1
On the wrong track? Perceived track mismatch among ethnic minority and majority students in the German education system1
Immigrant optimism in Ireland: Parental expectations of children’s educational attainment1
Sibling similarity in income: A life course perspective1
Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited1
Comparing the social and spatial mobility across UK regions – Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts1
Explaining class differences in educational attainment in Japan: An empirical test of the Breen and Goldthorpe model1
Inequality in East Asia1
0.12701797485352