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The gendered value of education in the ‘college-for-all’ era and the role of literacy and numeracy skills “全民大学”时代教育的性别价值以及识字和算术技能的作用

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101074

Dafna Gelbgiser , Limor Gabay-Egozi

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Family formation and occupational status: Premium or penalties for women? 家庭形成与职业地位：对女性有利还是不利？

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101075

Maye Ehab

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The impact of economic fluctuations on health inequalities in Europe: Evidence from 29 countries between 2005 and 2015 经济波动对欧洲卫生不平等的影响：2005年至2015年来自29个国家的证据

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101073

Jad Moawad

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Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education? 空间不平等能解释智利高等教育不匹配的社会差异吗？

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101072

Danilo Kuzmanic

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Social network effects on educational inequality: The role of similarity bias in social influence 教育不平等的社会网络效应：相似性偏差在社会影响中的作用

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101071

Till Hovestadt , Georg Lorenz

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Equal educational qualifications but unequal labor market outcomes: An exploration of gender disparities in occupational status and their mechanisms, over five decades 平等的教育资格但不平等的劳动力市场结果：50年来职业地位的性别差异及其机制的探索

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101070

Richard Nennstiel , Rolf Becker

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Returns to parental higher education across the wage distribution, gender, and the life course 在工资分配、性别和生命历程中，对父母高等教育的回报

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101067

Irma Mooi-Reci , Meir Yaish , Lyn Craig

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Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review 招聘中的残疾歧视：系统回顾

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101069

Nicole Schwitter , Stella Chatzitheochari , Ulf Liebe

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Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education 智利土著学生的教育轨迹：中等和高等教育的水平分层

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101068

Andrea Alvarado-Urbina

{"title":"Educational trajectories of indigenous students in Chile: Horizontal stratification in secondary and tertiary education","authors":"Andrea Alvarado-Urbina","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multiple studies connect ethnic background with uneven educational outcomes; this study contributes a novel perspective to the literature by attending to indigenous peoples’ experiences with vertical and horizontal dimensions of stratification in the Chilean school system. In particular, I investigate the transition from primary to secondary school and to higher education, comparing enrollment in academic and vocational tracks at the secondary and tertiary levels. With a series of logistic regressions, I study differences in these critical educational transitions associated with indigenous status, together with gender and location. Analyses of the 2012 seventh-grade cohort show that indigenous status increases the likelihood of enrolling in vocational high schools, but regarding the transition to higher education, indigenous status is only relevant when school SES is not included. Nevertheless, vocational high school graduates (where indigenous students concentrate) are less likely to enroll in higher education, and more likely to enroll in vocational instead of academic higher education programs. Overall, indigenous status has a clear impact on students' transition from middle school to high school, which has relevant consequences for the transition to higher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101068"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144231834","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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Immigrant optimism in Ireland: Parental expectations of children’s educational attainment 爱尔兰移民的乐观主义：父母对孩子受教育程度的期望

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101066

Mengxuan Li , Yekaterina Chzhen

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