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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	30
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	21
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	21
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	20
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review	18
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	17
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	15
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	15
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	15
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	14
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	13
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	13
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?	13
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis	12
Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants	12
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	11
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	11
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	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	11
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	11
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	10
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	10
Editorial Board	10
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	9
Does course-level really matter?: Between-family confounding in the association between high school course-level and educational attainment	9

Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	9
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning	9
Middle-class economic power and the evolution of educational systems	9
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	8
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States	8
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	8
Editorial Board	8
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies	8
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
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy	7
Editorial Board	7
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account	7
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy	7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education	7
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)	7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	7
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite	7
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”	7
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities	6
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools	6
Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education	6
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	6
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	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
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	6
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	6
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution	6
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–2015	6
Editorial Board	6
Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background	6
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
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	5
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain	5
Did social change strengthen genetic associations? Gendered educational attainment before and after German reunification	5
Editorial Board	5
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–2018	5
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	5
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	5
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe	5
Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education	5
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	5
Does schooling increase or reduce inequality in achievement and conscientiousness in Denmark?	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	5
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	5
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China	5
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men	4
Is the wage premium on using computers at work gender-specific?	4

Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Managerial decisions on older workers’ training: A vignette study on the interplay of worker and manager characteristics	4
The legacy of names. Persistence in social status in Sweden 1865–2015	4
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–2010	4
Editorial Board	4
Rob Mare’s research trajectory as a model of cumulative science	4
Racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health	4
Family formation and occupational status: Premium or penalties for women?	4
The U-turn in educational inequality. Why a multidimensional approach matters for measuring social inequalities in tertiary educational attainment	4
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany	4
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny	4
Graduates’ early wages in Germany: Does a university’s status of excellence make the difference?	4
Heritability of class and status: Implications for sociological theory and research	4
Human capital and the upward occupational mobility of rural migrant workers in China	4
Is universal early childhood education and care an equalizer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence	4
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015	4
The association between parental separation at the school level and student outcomes in four European Countries	3
Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia	3
Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan	3
Mare’s model of education transitions: Reflections on a powerful continuing resource for understanding	3
The summer parental investment gap? Socioeconomic gaps in the seasonality of parental expenditures and time with school-age children	3
Intersections of gender and immigrant status in Japan: Analysis of the 2020 Basic Survey on Wage Structure	3
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration	3
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation	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 legacy of Robert D. Mare	3
Heterogeneity or consistency across life domains? An analysis of disparities between second-generation migrants and the Swedish majority population	3
Enduring boundaries, emerging bridges: Patterns of caste and ethnic intermarriage in Nepal	3
Multigenerational coresidence and parental time in developmental childcare in China	3
Shadow education, pandemic style: Social class, race, and supplemental education during Covid-19	3
Occupational origin effects on wage and market income (inequality): The cases of Spain and Germany	3
Parental contextual education and educational mobility among the children of Asian American immigrants	3
Does social origin modify the heritability of cognitive ability? A close look at the relevance of different parental resources	3
Occupational marginalization, underemployment, and earnings inequality among college graduates	3
Household income mobility in France over the COVID-19 pandemic: Losers and winners of the crisis	3
The effects of state-managed marketplaces on out-of-pocket health care costs: Before and after the Affordable Care Act	2
Compensatory advantage and inequality in educational aspirations	2
Does employability help to cope with job insecurity? An analysis of workers' well-being with Swiss panel data	2
The gendered character of claims-making: A longitudinal analysis	2
Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina: 1960–2017	2
Doing gender and the surname choices of married women	2
Explaining class differences in educational attainment in Japan: An empirical test of the Breen and Goldthorpe model	2
It takes two to court: Partnership formation in the context of forced migration	2
Leaving for more or settling for less: Gendered salary trajectories after leaving academia	2
Gender employment gap at arrival and its dynamics: The case of refugees in Germany	2
American versus East Asian norms and labor market institutions affecting socioeconomic inequality	2
Starting flexible, always flexible? The relation of early temporary employment and young workers employment trajectories in the Netherlands	2
Explaining differences in decision-relevant educational knowledge between parents with and without an immigrant background in Germany	2
Gender blindness in the research on the economic value of education: Theoretical and methodological causes and consequences	2
Occupational mobility and biological well-being: A perspective over three generations in rural Spain, 1835–1959	2
Intragenerational wage mobility and social disadvantage: A comparative study of West Germany and the United States	2
Editorial Board	2
Why do trends in social fluidity at labour market entry and occupational maturity differ? Evidence from Germany and the UK	2
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice	2
Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples	2
Employer preferences for vocational over general education: evidence from an employer survey experiment	2
The early years	2
Division of household labor in urban China: Couples’ education pairing and co-residence with parents	2
Earnings trajectories of individuals in same-sex and different-sex couples: Evidence from administrative data	2
Heterogeneity, selection, and the policy effect of educational expansion on college graduate earnings in China, 1981–2015	2
Gendered responses to unfair pay: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment among employees in German firms	2
Loss of Vocabulary Growth during Lockdown? Stability in Language Trajectories among bi- and monolingual Children during the School Closures 2020/2021	2
Origin, destination, or mobility? A systematic review of studies using diagonal reference models	2
Temporary employment and further training. Does training promote the transition from temporary to permanent employment?	2
After dropout: Social stratification and the dynamics of educational re-entry in Spain	2
Disability and the widening gap in mid-life wealth accumulation: A longitudinal examination	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
Aging and the rise in bottom income inequality in Korea	2