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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 197151
Routine-biased technological change does not always lead to polarisation: Evidence from 10 OECD countries, 1995–201329
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends23
Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia20
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How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?19
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation15
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Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China14
The legacy of Robert D. Mare14
Concerted cultivation in early childhood and social inequalities in cognitive skills: Evidence from a German panel study13
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago13
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland13
Both parents matter. Family-based educational inequality in Italy over the second half of the 20th century13
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Native American “deaths of despair” and economic conditions11
Occupational origin effects on wage and market income (inequality): The cases of Spain and Germany11
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Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples10
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 195010
On the way to becoming a society of downward mobility? Intergenerational occupational mobility in seven West German birth cohorts (1944–1978)10
Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market9
Occupational mobility in Europe during the crisis: Did the social elevator break?9
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices9
Social mobility, adolescents’ psycho-social dispositions, and parenting8
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level8
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration7
Why do trends in social fluidity at labour market entry and occupational maturity differ? Evidence from Germany and the UK7
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes7
Family, school, neighbourhood or all three: Differences in tertiary educational achievement among the Russian ethno-linguistic minority in Tallinn Urban Region, Estonia7
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage7
Aging and the rise in bottom income inequality in Korea6
Disability and the widening gap in mid-life wealth accumulation: A longitudinal examination6
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities6
Reproduction of academic and socioeconomic segregation in the transition to postsecondary education: A new approach6
Explaining class differences in educational attainment in Japan: An empirical test of the Breen and Goldthorpe model6
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries6
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study6
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice6
Multigenerational coresidence and parental time in developmental childcare in China6
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China6
Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan6
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment6
Global value chains and racial inequality in the US labor market, 1979–20175
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective5
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland5
Does tracking increase segregation? International evidence on the effects of between-school tracking on social segregation across schools5
Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited5
Segplot: A new method for visualizing patterns of multi-group segregation5
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States5
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America4
Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement4
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Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China4
Intergenerational poverty persistence in Europe – Is there a ‘Great Gatsby Curve’ for poverty?4
Career start abroad: The implications of graduate migration for social inequality4
Escaping uncertainty through downward mobility? Occupational mobility upon transition to permanent employment in Germany and in Poland4
Revisiting the historical trend of educational stratification in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia4
Find the right one. Educational assortative mating and educational reproduction in Germany4
Mare’s model of education transitions: Reflections on a powerful continuing resource for understanding4
COVID-19–associated discrimination in Germany4
The when and the how of the emergence of social inequality in mental health: Exploring social causation and health selection through employment transitions4
Does industrial development predict equalization in educational opportunity? A multiverse analysis4
Heterogeneity or consistency across life domains? An analysis of disparities between second-generation migrants and the Swedish majority population4
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Rob Mare career trajectory transcription4
Sticky educational expectations: A cross-country comparison4
Navigating bias? An assessment of access to, use of, and returns to social capital in the school-to-work transition of descendants of immigrants3
The gender gap in earnings growth at the early stage of work careers in Korea3
Concise survey measures for the Big Five personality traits3
Social origin and expectation of postgraduate enrolment among spanish university undergraduates mediation and moderation effect of fields of study and grades3
Finding a job: An intersectional analysis of search strategies and outcomes among U.S. STEM graduates3
Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources3
Positional education and intergenerational status transmission in Brazil3
Occupational marginalization, underemployment, and earnings inequality among college graduates3
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition3
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age3
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent3
Adding experiments to the classical survey-interview mix: A three-method design for supporting micro-to-macro explanations in sociology3
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?3
Is it the school of fish or the size of the pond that matters? An experimental examination of reference group effects in secondary school3
Disentangling genetic and social pathways of the intergenerational transmission of cognitive ability – A nuclear twin family study3
Beyond parental wealth: Grandparental wealth and the transition to adulthood3
Welfare regime patterns in the social class-fertility relationship: Second births in Austria, France, Norway, and the United Kingdom3
Is the worth of a college education declining vis-à-vis the transition into homeownership? A gender-differentiated analysis among young adults in Hong Kong from 1991 to 20163
Gendered wage returns to changes in non-routine job tasks: Evidence from Germany2
Intersections of gender and immigrant status in Japan: Analysis of the 2020 Basic Survey on Wage Structure2
The importance of intergenerational stability for the social origins of undereducation and overeducation2
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Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records2
Gender-oriented statistical discrimination: Aggregate fertility, economic sector, and earnings among young Chinese workers2
The contribution of work values to early career mobility2
Gender inequality in educational performance over the school career: The role of tracking2
Using the decomposition of the mutual information index as an alternative approach to the study of educational inequality trends in Spain2
Comparing the social and spatial mobility across UK regions – Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts2
Inequality in East Asia2
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated2
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To work or to study? Postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany – Evidence from a choice experiment2
Atypical work, financial assets, and asset poverty in Germany2
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain2
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
Municipal police and the economic mobility gap between black and white males in the US2
Who benefits from elite colleges’ decreased reliance on high-stakes standardized tests? Evidence from a quasi-field experiment2
High schools and intergenerational mobility2
Ethno-racial and relative income disparities in access to mortgage credit2
Earnings mobility across three generations of natives in Finland: A comparison of Finnish and Swedish speakers2
The summer parental investment gap? Socioeconomic gaps in the seasonality of parental expenditures and time with school-age children2
Earnings trajectories of individuals in same-sex and different-sex couples: Evidence from administrative data1
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well1
From social origin to selective high school courses: Ability grouping as a mechanism of securing social advantage in Israeli secondary education1
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Robert Mare’s legacy in neighborhood research1
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States1
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)1
Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes1
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination1
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany1
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe1
Context in continuity: The enduring legacy of neighborhood disadvantage across generations1
Heterogeneity, selection, and the policy effect of educational expansion on college graduate earnings in China, 1981–20151
The lasting earnings losses of COVID-19 short-time work1
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China1
An approach to social mobility in African countries: Is there a transmission of education, occupation, or income from parents to children?1
Understanding differences in children’s reading ability by social origin and gender: The role of parental reading and pre- and primary school exposure in Ireland1
Endorsement of wage discrimination against immigrants: Results from a multifactorial survey experiment in Israeli society1
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research1
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification1
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Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina: 1960–20171
Investigating the role of educational aspirations as central mediators of secondary school track choice in Germany1
Educational mobility and subjective well-being from an intergenerational perspective1
The distribution of privately held business assets in the United States1
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case1
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating1
Educational mobility across three generations of Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking Finns1
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Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account1
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
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–20101
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Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income1
The impact of the abolition of compulsory service on life satisfaction1
Upward track mobility into academic upper secondary education: Effects of challenging parental expectations, immigrant origin, and older siblings on students' educational choices1
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries1
Explaining differences in decision-relevant educational knowledge between parents with and without an immigrant background in Germany1
Local historical context and multigenerational socioeconomic attainment1
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny1
Childcare utilisation by migration background: Evidence from a nationally representative Irish cohort study1
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–20181
Sibling similarity in income: A life course perspective1
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Does employability help to cope with job insecurity? An analysis of workers' well-being with Swiss panel data1
Same major, same economic returns? College selectivity and earnings inequality in young adulthood1
Regional variation in participation in private tutoring and the role of education system features1
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