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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	55
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	30
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	22
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	20
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	19
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	17
Routine-biased technological change does not always lead to polarisation: Evidence from 10 OECD countries, 1995–2013	16
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	15
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	15
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?	14
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	14
The when and the how of the emergence of social inequality in mental health: Exploring social causation and health selection through employment transitions	13
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	13
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	13
Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants	13
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	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	12
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	11
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	11
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	11
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	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
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	10
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case	9
Editorial Board	8

Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	8
Editorial Board	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
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	8
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States	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
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite	7
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification	7
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)	7
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies	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
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
Does the impact of the family increase or decrease over the life course? Sibling similarities in occupational status across different career points	7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	7
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
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	5
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	5
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland	5
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills	5
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany	5
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	5
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950	5
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools	5
Editorial Board	5
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	5
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	5
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe	4
Editorial Board	4
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	4
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends	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
To work or to study? Postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany – Evidence from a choice experiment	4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	4
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	4
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	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
Same major, same economic returns? College selectivity and earnings inequality in young adulthood	4
Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education	4
Navigating bias? An assessment of access to, use of, and returns to social capital in the school-to-work transition of descendants of immigrants	4
Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market	4
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	4
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–2018	4

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