Research in Social Stratification and Mobility最新文献

Gendered responses to unfair pay: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment among employees in German firms 对不公平薪酬的性别反应：来自德国公司员工因子调查实验的证据

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101064

Ole Brüggemann , Julia Lang

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Stratified strategies? Gender, social background and access to selective fields in Norway 分层策略?挪威的性别、社会背景和进入选择性领域的机会

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101061

Claudia Finger , Thea Bertnes Strømme

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Same but different: Gender, social origin, and university access. Results from a field experiment on guidance counseling 相同但又不同：性别、社会出身和大学入学。指导咨询的现场实验结果

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101062

Melinda Erdmann , Irena Pietrzyk , Juliana Schneider , Marcel Helbig , Marita Jacob

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Duration of child home care allowance period and school success: Differences by parental education level and ethnic origins 儿童在家照顾津贴期限与学业成绩：父母教育程度及族裔的差异

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101063

Markus Laaninen

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Doing gender and the surname choices of married women 做性别和已婚妇女的姓氏选择

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101060

Florencia Torche , Alisa Feldman , Tyler W. McDaniel

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Parental contextual education and educational mobility among the children of Asian American immigrants 亚裔美国移民子女的父母背景教育与教育流动性

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101059

Samuel H. Fishman

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Gender blindness in the research on the economic value of education: Theoretical and methodological causes and consequences 教育经济价值研究中的性别盲目性：理论与方法的因果

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101049

Hadas Mandel, Assaf Rotman

{"title":"Gender blindness in the research on the economic value of education: Theoretical and methodological causes and consequences","authors":"Hadas Mandel, Assaf Rotman","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A thorough ‘sociological reading’ in one of the most important, high-profile, and extensive literatures, the research on the economic value of education, reveals its failed to acknowledge women’s lower education premiums, as well as the rise in gender inequality in education premiums over-time. This neglect is surprising because the economic value of education is a hot topic that has attracted major scholarly attention in recent decades due to its relation to the expansion of income inequality in postindustrial economies. It also has significant implications for understanding the mechanisms underpinning gender inequality in modern labor markets that rely on workers’ education and skills. Our analysis 1) sheds light on this omission, 2) identifies its theoretical and methodological sources, 3) reveals its consequences by presenting comparative evidence on trends in gender inequality in education premium (based on US-CPS data from the years 1980–2023), and 4) offers a gender-sensitive approach for future studies. The data and literature analyses have significant empirical and theoretical implications. Empirically, they highlight the widening gender gap in educational premiums. Theoretically, the findings contribute to the sociology of knowledge by demonstrating how the theoretical framework, and consequently the research questions and methodology, shape our empirical knowledge.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101049"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143917544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Equal opportunity policy and the reverse gender gap in academic achievement: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Hong Kong 平等机会政策与学业成绩的反向性别差距：来自香港准实验的证据

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101048

Duoduo Xu , Xiaogang Wu

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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

{"title":"Is the gender-gap reversal a feedback loop? Demographic factors influencing gender-gap inequalities in tertiary education in European countries","authors":"Tomáš Katrňák , Pia N. Blossfeld , Tomáš Doseděl","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The educational structures of European populations have changed significantly over the last 20 years. The average proportion of young people (aged 25–34) in European countries who had attained tertiary education increased from 25 % in 2000 to 41 % in 2020. This educational expansion has been accompanied by a change of the gender ratio in favor of women and the growth of a gender-gap reversal (GGR). We deal with demographic factors that influence the trends in GGR in tertiary education. We use the first round of Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS-I) data collected under the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) in 12 European countries. We analyze the effects of parental educational hypogamy (marriage where the wife’s education level is higher than the husband’s), parental tertiary homogamy (marriage where the wife’s tertiary level is the same as the husband’s), parental divorce, and non-intact origin family. The empirical results show that three of these factors have positive effects on women’s tertiary education attainment and increase the GGR. We argue that the increasing level of GGR then reinforces the prevalence of these factors in the tertiary educated population at the macro level by which the GGR is boosted again over time. Based on this cyclic argument we suggest interpreting the GGR in tertiary education as a positive feedback loop.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101040"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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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