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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	32
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	23
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	20
Routine-biased technological change does not always lead to polarisation: Evidence from 10 OECD countries, 1995–2013	19
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review	19
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	19
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	17
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	17
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	15
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	15
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?	14
Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants	14
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	14
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	13
The when and the how of the emergence of social inequality in mental health: Exploring social causation and health selection through employment transitions	13
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	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
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	12
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	11
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case	10
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	10
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	9
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	9
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	9
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	8

Editorial Board	8
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification	8
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning	8
Editorial Board	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
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	8
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
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy	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
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”	7
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account	7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education	7
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy	7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	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
Does the impact of the family increase or decrease over the life course? Sibling similarities in occupational status across different career points	6
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite	6
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills	6
Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education	6
Intragenerational occupational mobility of South Korea, 1998–2017: Implications of the gendered life course approach for mobility and inequality studies	6
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution	6
Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries	6
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools	6
Editorial Board	5
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends	5
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950	5
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	5
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	5
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	5
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	5
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany	5
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland	5
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	5
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	5
Equally performing, unfairly evaluated	4
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–2010	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
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
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
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
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	4
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	4
Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–2018	4
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	4
Editorial Board	4

Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	4
Editorial Board	4
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	4