OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	28
Editorial Board	22
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review	19
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	18
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	17
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	16
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	16
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	14
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	14
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	12
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	12
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	12
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis	11
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	11
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	10
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 school	10
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	10
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	10
Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants	10
Understanding differences in children’s reading ability by social origin and gender: The role of parental reading and pre- and primary school exposure in Ireland	9
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	9
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning	9
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	9
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	8

Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account	8
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	8
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	8
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	8
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case	8
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	7
The impact of economic fluctuations on health inequalities in Europe: Evidence from 29 countries between 2005 and 2015	7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education	7
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 elite	7
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy	7
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States	7
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification	7
Intragenerational occupational mobility of South Korea, 1998–2017: Implications of the gendered life course approach for mobility and inequality studies	7
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools	6
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–2015	6
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany	6
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills	6
Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries	6
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	6
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities	6
Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education	6
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy	6
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	5
Editorial Board	5
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	5
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	5
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	5
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	5
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain	5
Editorial Board	5
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	5
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950	5
Navigating bias? An assessment of access to, use of, and returns to social capital in the school-to-work transition of descendants of immigrants	5
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	5
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	5
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution	5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland	5
Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes	4
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe	4
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	4
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny	4
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany	4
Editorial Board	4
Did social change strengthen genetic associations? Gendered educational attainment before and after German reunification	4
Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education	4

The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China	4
Managerial decisions on older workers’ training: A vignette study on the interplay of worker and manager characteristics	4
Editorial Board	4
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men	4
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated	4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	4
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–2018	4
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015	4
The U-turn in educational inequality. Why a multidimensional approach matters for measuring social inequalities in tertiary educational attainment	4
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–2010	4