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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	29
Editorial Board	25
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	24
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	19
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	17
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review	17
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	17
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	16
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	16
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	13
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	13
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	12
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	12
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
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis	11
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?	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	10
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	10
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	10
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	10
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	10
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	9
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	9
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	9

Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case	9
Editorial Board	9
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	8
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies	8
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	8
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning	8
Does course-level really matter?: Between-family confounding in the association between high school course-level and educational attainment	8
Middle-Class Economic Power and the Evolution of Educational Systems	8
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
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account	7
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”	7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	7
The impact of economic fluctuations on health inequalities in Europe: Evidence from 29 countries between 2005 and 2015	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
Intragenerational occupational mobility of South Korea, 1998–2017: Implications of the gendered life course approach for mobility and inequality studies	7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education	7
Editorial Board	7
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite	7
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
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	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
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
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–2015	6
Editorial Board	5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland	5
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	5
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	5
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	5
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	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
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	5
Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background	5
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	5
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950	5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	5
Editorial Board	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
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–2018	4
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	4
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015	4
Is universal early childhood education and care an equalizer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence	4
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men	4
Parental occupation and students’ STEM achievements by gender and ethnic origin: Evidence from Germany	4

Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	4
Did social change strengthen genetic associations? Gendered educational attainment before and after German reunification	4
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China	4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	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
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated	4
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe	4
Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education	4
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny	4
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain	4
Hiring discrimination against foreigners in multi-ethnic labour markets: Does recruiter nationality matter? Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Luxembourg	4
The legacy of names. Persistence in social status in Sweden 1865–2015	4
Editorial Board	4