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Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries 性别差距的逆转是一个反馈循环吗？影响欧洲国家高等教育性别差距不平等的人口因素

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101040

Tomáš Katrňák , Pia N. Blossfeld , Tomáš Doseděl

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Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States 不同的轨迹和不平等的回报：美国黑人-白人财富不平等的时间方法

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101046

Chunhui Ren

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Origin, destination, or mobility? A systematic review of studies using diagonal reference models 起源，目的地，还是流动？对角参考模型研究的系统回顾

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101047

Songyun Shi , Alexi Gugushvili

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Five decades of marital sorting in France and the United States – The role of educational expansion and the changing gender imbalance in education 法国和美国五十年的婚姻分门别类——教育扩张的作用和教育中不断变化的性别失衡

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101044

Julia Leesch , Jan Skopek

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Managerial decisions on older workers’ training: A vignette study on the interplay of worker and manager characteristics 年长工人培训的管理决策：工人与管理者特征相互作用的小研究

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101045

Jelle Lössbroek , Joop Schippers

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Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants 最近进入大学的男女学生学历的稳定性和变化

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101043

Natasha Quadlin , Tom VanHeuvelen

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Exploring pathways: How friends' anti-academic behavior contributes to the gender gap in language and math grades 探索途径：朋友的反学术行为如何导致语文和数学成绩的性别差距

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101042

Margriet van Hek

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Trends in couples’ educational pairings and marital dissolution: Evidence from South Korea 夫妻教育配对与婚姻破裂的趋势：来自韩国的证据

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101041

Sangsoo Lee

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Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe 阶级、主观地位和欧洲的投票率

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101039

Giacomo Melli

{"title":"Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe","authors":"Giacomo Melli","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inspired by Weber’s distinction between class and status, the paper explores the independent and joint role of social class and subjective social status in shaping electoral participation in contemporary European democracies. While social class has long been established as a predictor of political behaviour, less attention has been paid to the influence of subjective status, an individual’s self-assessed position within the social hierarchy. Drawing on nineteen waves of data from the International Social Survey Program from 2002 to 2021 across twenty-five European countries, this paper examines how social class and subjective status independently and jointly influence electoral participation. The findings indicate that while social class remains a significant determinant of electoral participation, subjective status offers further insight. Individuals with higher subjective status are more likely to vote, regardless of their social class. Moreover, within social classes, particularly the working class, participation rates are stratified by subjective status, with a notable gap between individuals with high and low subjective status. By employing Linear Probability Models with Country-Year Fixed Effects, the study accounts for cross-national differences and provides a robust analysis of electoral participation in Europe. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of political inequality, suggesting that subjective aspects of social stratification should be considered alongside traditional class-based analyses to fully grasp the factors influencing political participation in European democracies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101039"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning 不平等的权衡？双职工增加中夫妻之间和夫妻内部的就业不平等

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101035

Guillaume Paugam

{"title":"The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning","authors":"Guillaume Paugam","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper links the rise of dual earning in Europe with two associated phenomena, hitherto mostly studied separately: household employment polarisation, and part-time employment. The former is about inequality across heterosexual working-age couples, and their tendency to polarise between dual earning and dual workless. The latter shows that inequality persists within dual-earning couples, with women more likely than men to be in part-time work. The paper studies 11 European countries since 1983. It first documents long-run trends in dual earning, employment polarisation and part-time work. It then formally links the latter two notions, by developing a novel shift-share equation to explain the rise of dual-earning in terms of changes in levels of part-time and full-time work and changes in how equally or unequally they are distributed across couples. It shows that part-time employment increased the levels of employment without really changing the way employment is distributed across couples. On the other hand, full-time employment has become much more unequally distributed across couples over time, particularly following the 2008 crisis, a period during which the rise of female full-time work accelerated and male full-time work declined. The paper also identifies patterns of commonalities and differences across European countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101035"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143628040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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