OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	32
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	25
How is university students’ paid work associated with their locus of control?	25
Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level	22
Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review	21
Aspirations as boundaries. Guidance practices and the reproduction of social inequality in free-choice tracking systems	19
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971	18
Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China	17
First-generation students’ educational outcomes: The role of parental educational, cultural, and economic capital – A 9-years panel study	16
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States	15
Intergenerational income mobility table revisited: A trajectory group perspective	15
The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries	15
Is it the school of fish or the size of the pond that matters? An experimental examination of reference group effects in secondary school	14
Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants	14
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis	14
The changing educational and social class gradients in union dissolution: Evidence from a latecomer of the Second Demographic Transition	14
Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany—Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education?	12
Subjective inequality in South Korea: Perception, belief, and discontent	11
Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades	11
Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe	11
Parental involvement in elementary schools and children’s academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis across educational groups in Finland	11
Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating	11
The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning	10
Does course-level really matter?: Between-family confounding in the association between high school course-level and educational attainment	10
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility	10

Editorial Board	10
Is older age more unequal than we think? Estimates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to administrative records	9
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD countries	9
Variation in unemployment scarring across labor markets. A comparative factorial survey experiment using real vacancies	9
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	9
Middle-class economic power and the evolution of educational systems	9
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	9
Wage outcomes after temporary employment in Germany and the UK: Taking within- and between-employer transitions into account	8
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”	8
Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s)	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy	8
Persistent skin tone and wealth stratification among new immigrants in the United States	8
Social trust and well-being inequality according to social stratification	8
Inequality at the top. The gender earnings gap among the Italian educational elite	8
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities	7
Social stratification in downgrading during secondary school after ambitious track choices	7
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy	7
Ethnic conflict and workplace inequality: Hiring Arabs during conflict escalation in Israel, 1997–2015	7
Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education	7
Editorial Board	7
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China	7
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes: The role of public track regard and teachers’ chauvinistic communication in Belgian secondary schools	7
Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills	7
Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries	7
The impact of economic fluctuations on health inequalities in Europe: Evidence from 29 countries between 2005 and 2015	7
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education	7
The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution	7
Robert Mare’s legacy: Multi-generational processes	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	6
Does schooling increase or reduce inequality in achievement and conscientiousness in Denmark?	6
Measurement invariance of subjective social status: The issue of single-item questions in social stratification research	6
Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background	6
Gender stratification, racial disparities, and student debt trajectories in the United States	6
Intersectional inequalities: How socioeconomic well-being varies at the intersection of disability, gender, race-ethnicity, and age	6
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America	6
The changing terrain of racial inequality in Trinidad and Tobago	6
Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China	6
Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities	6
Estimating the intersecting labor market disparities for justice-impacted individuals with disabilities: Evidence from two United States national data sets	6
How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain	5
The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China	5
Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–2010	5
When lines of class division run through families: Comparing mother’s and father’s influence on social destiny	5
Coordinated markets, school-to-work linkages, and labor market outcomes in Europe	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
Did social change strengthen genetic associations? Gendered educational attainment before and after German reunification	5
Editorial Board	5
Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men	5

Family income volatility among Chinese children, 2010–2018	5
Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education	5
Editorial Board	5
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015	5
Learning about inequality in unequal America: How heterogeneity in college shapes students’ beliefs about meritocracy and racial discrimination	5