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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	51
Routine-biased technological change does not always lead to polarisation: Evidence from 10 OECD countries, 1995–2013	29
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends	23
Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia	20
Editorial Board	19
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	19
Editorial Board	15
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation	15
The legacy of Robert D. Mare	14
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	14
Good or bad (in)stability? A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland	13
Both parents matter. Family-based educational inequality in Italy over the second half of the 20th century	13
Concerted cultivation in early childhood and social inequalities in cognitive skills: Evidence from a German panel study	13
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	13
Editorial Board	12
Occupational origin effects on wage and market income (inequality): The cases of Spain and Germany	11
Native American “deaths of despair” and economic conditions	11
On the way to becoming a society of downward mobility? Intergenerational occupational mobility in seven West German birth cohorts (1944–1978)	10
Editorial Board	10
Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples	10
States of inequality: Politics, labor, and rising income inequality in the U.S. States since 1950	10
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	9
Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market	9
Occupational mobility in Europe during the crisis: Did the social elevator break?	9
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	8

Social mobility, adolescents’ psycho-social dispositions, and parenting	8
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	7
Family, school, neighbourhood or all three: Differences in tertiary educational achievement among the Russian ethno-linguistic minority in Tallinn Urban Region, Estonia	7
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	7
Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration	7
Why do trends in social fluidity at labour market entry and occupational maturity differ? Evidence from Germany and the UK	7
Explaining class differences in educational attainment in Japan: An empirical test of the Breen and Goldthorpe model	6
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	6
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	6
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice	6
Multigenerational coresidence and parental time in developmental childcare in China	6
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	6
Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan	6
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	6
Aging and the rise in bottom income inequality in Korea	6
Disability and the widening gap in mid-life wealth accumulation: A longitudinal examination	6
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	6
Reproduction of academic and socioeconomic segregation in the transition to postsecondary education: A new approach	6
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	5
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	5
Global value chains and racial inequality in the US labor market, 1979–2017	5
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	5
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	5
Does tracking increase segregation? International evidence on the effects of between-school tracking on social segregation across schools	5
Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited	5
Segplot: A new method for visualizing patterns of multi-group segregation	5
Escaping uncertainty through downward mobility? Occupational mobility upon transition to permanent employment in Germany and in Poland	4
Revisiting the historical trend of educational stratification in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia	4
Find the right one. Educational assortative mating and educational reproduction in Germany	4
Mare’s model of education transitions: Reflections on a powerful continuing resource for understanding	4
COVID-19–associated discrimination in Germany	4
The when and the how of the emergence of social inequality in mental health: Exploring social causation and health selection through employment transitions	4
Does industrial development predict equalization in educational opportunity? A multiverse analysis	4
Heterogeneity or consistency across life domains? An analysis of disparities between second-generation migrants and the Swedish majority population	4
Editorial Board	4
Rob Mare career trajectory transcription	4
Sticky educational expectations: A cross-country comparison	4
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	4
Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China	4
Intergenerational poverty persistence in Europe – Is there a ‘Great Gatsby Curve’ for poverty?	4
Career start abroad: The implications of graduate migration for social inequality	4