OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	30
Editorial Board	25
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	25
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	19
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	19
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review	17
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	17
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	16
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	13
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	13
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	12
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	12
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	12
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	11
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
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis	10
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	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
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	9
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?	9
Does course-level really matter?: Between-family confounding in the association between high school course-level and educational attainment	9
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	9
Editorial Board	9
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	9

The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	8
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning	8
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	8
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	8
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies	8
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	8
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account	8
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite	7
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States	7
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)	7
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy	7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education	7
Editorial Board	7
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”	7
Intragenerational occupational mobility of South Korea, 1998–2017: Implications of the gendered life course approach for mobility and inequality studies	7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	7
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy	7
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification	7
The impact of economic fluctuations on health inequalities in Europe: Evidence from 29 countries between 2005 and 2015	7
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills	6
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities	6
Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries	6
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution	6
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany	6
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–2015	6
Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education	6
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools	6
Editorial Board	5
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	5
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	5
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950	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
Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background	5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland	5
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	5
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	5
Editorial Board	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
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny	4
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	4
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain	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
Editorial Board	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
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men	4
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated	4

Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	4
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe	4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	4
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China	4
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany	4
Editorial Board	4
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	4
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
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 legacy of names. Persistence in social status in Sweden 1865–2015	4
Heritability of class and status: Implications for sociological theory and research	4
Graduates’ early wages in Germany: Does a university’s status of excellence make the difference?	3
Rob Mare’s research trajectory as a model of cumulative science	3
Parental contextual education and educational mobility among the children of Asian American immigrants	3
Heterogeneity or consistency across life domains? An analysis of disparities between second-generation migrants and the Swedish majority population	3
Occupational marginalization, underemployment, and earnings inequality among college graduates	3
Family, school, neighbourhood or all three: Differences in tertiary educational achievement among the Russian ethno-linguistic minority in Tallinn Urban Region, Estonia	3
The association between parental separation at the school level and student outcomes in four European Countries	3
Racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health	3
Editorial Board	3
Shadow education, pandemic style: Social class, race, and supplemental education during Covid-19	3
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation	3
Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan	3
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration	3
Occupational origin effects on wage and market income (inequality): The cases of Spain and Germany	3
Human capital and the upward occupational mobility of rural migrant workers in China	3
Hiring discrimination against foreigners in multi-ethnic labour markets: Does recruiter nationality matter? Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Luxembourg	3
Managerial decisions on older workers’ training: A vignette study on the interplay of worker and manager characteristics	3
Family formation and occupational status: Premium or penalties for women?	3
Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender-specific?	3
Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources	3
Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia	3
The legacy of Robert D. Mare	3
Multigenerational coresidence and parental time in developmental childcare in China	3
Editorial Board	3
Is universal early childhood education and care an equalizer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence	3
Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina: 1960–2017	2
The gendered character of claims-making: A longitudinal analysis	2
Intersections of gender and immigrant status in Japan: Analysis of the 2020 Basic Survey on Wage Structure	2
Earnings trajectories of individuals in same-sex and different-sex couples: Evidence from administrative data	2
Doing gender and the surname choices of married women	2
Intragenerational wage mobility and social disadvantage: A comparative study of West Germany and the United States	2
The early years	2
Starting flexible, always flexible? The relation of early temporary employment and young workers employment trajectories in the Netherlands	2
Employer preferences for vocational over general education: evidence from an employer survey experiment	2
Gender blindness in the research on the economic value of education: Theoretical and methodological causes and consequences	2
Household income mobility in France over the COVID-19 pandemic: Losers and winners of the crisis	2
The summer parental investment gap? Socioeconomic gaps in the seasonality of parental expenditures and time with school-age children	2
Positional education and intergenerational status transmission in Brazil	2
Occupational mobility and biological well-being: A perspective over three generations in rural Spain, 1835–1959	2
Compensatory advantage and inequality in educational aspirations	2
The effects of state-managed marketplaces on out-of-pocket health care costs: Before and after the Affordable Care Act	2
American versus East Asian norms and labor market institutions affecting socioeconomic inequality	2
Division of household labor in urban China: Couples’ education pairing and co-residence with parents	2
Does employability help to cope with job insecurity? An analysis of workers' well-being with Swiss panel data	2
Enduring boundaries, emerging bridges: Patterns of caste and ethnic intermarriage in Nepal	2
Heterogeneity, selection, and the policy effect of educational expansion on college graduate earnings in China, 1981–2015	2
Mare’s model of education transitions: Reflections on a powerful continuing resource for understanding	2
Explaining differences in decision-relevant educational knowledge between parents with and without an immigrant background in Germany	2
Social class, parenting, and child development: A multidimensional approach	2
Do the institutionally disadvantaged students benefit more from boarding at school in their studying? The role of migration and Hukou status in China	2
Gendered responses to unfair pay: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment among employees in German firms	2
University prestige, cultural distance of the place of education, and wage differences between high-skilled U.S. immigrants with foreign and domestic credentials	2