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Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills impact children’s developmental processes? 母亲的职业技能会影响孩子的发展过程吗？

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101102

Alicia García-Sierra

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Household income mobility in France over the COVID-19 pandemic: Losers and winners of the crisis 新冠肺炎大流行期间法国家庭收入流动性：危机的输家和赢家

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101093

Marta Veljkovic , Ettore Recchi , Andrew Zola

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Is temporary employment a stepping stone for unemployed immigrants? 临时工作是失业移民的垫脚石吗？

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101092

Dries Lens, Kilian Van Looy, Ive Marx

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Did social change strengthen genetic associations? Gendered educational attainment before and after German reunification 社会变革是否加强了遗传联系？德国统一前后受教育程度的性别差异

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101091

Christoph Spörlein , Gundula Zoch , Elmar Schlueter

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Inherent advantage: The multidimensional and cumulative nature of intergenerational associations in degree attainment 内在优势：在学位获得方面代际关联的多维性和累积性

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101090

Sigal Alon , Oded Mcdossi

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Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis 英国的社会阶层和收入轨迹：纵向分析的新发现

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101089

Erzsébet Bukodi , John H. Goldthorpe , Leonie Westhoff

{"title":"Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: New findings from a longitudinal analysis","authors":"Erzsébet Bukodi , John H. Goldthorpe , Leonie Westhoff","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We identify and seek to address four questions arising from current analyses of the relation between social class positions and age-earnings trajectories that call for further research. First, how far are findings from earlier cross-sectional analyses confirmed if individuals’ earnings are treated longitudinally? Second, how far do differences show up in such trajectories <em>within</em> classes, thus suggesting heterogeneity in employment relations? Third, how far are individuals’ educational levels associated with the shapes of their earnings trajectories independently of their class positions? And, fourth, how far does the class mobility of individuals over the course of their working lives lead to changes in their earnings trajectories? We address these questions on the basis of a rich British dataset relating to men and women aged 21–60, born between1941 and 1990, and by treating earnings trajectories in relation to class through multilevel growth curve modelling. In general, we find that earlier findings are robust and that the association between class position and age-earnings trajectories for the most part follows theoretical expectations insofar as classes are defined in terms of differences in employment relations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101089"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144885689","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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The educational wealth divide in Europe: Post-secondary enrollment gaps across parental wealth components and countries 欧洲的教育财富鸿沟：父母财富组成部分和国家之间的高等教育入学率差距

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101086

Andrea Pietrolucci , Jascha Dräger , Nora Müller , Marco Albertini

{"title":"The educational wealth divide in Europe: Post-secondary enrollment gaps across parental wealth components and countries","authors":"Andrea Pietrolucci , Jascha Dräger , Nora Müller , Marco Albertini","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Parental wealth is a crucial dimension of socioeconomic status (SES) and plays a significant role in the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage. Previous research on the topic has been limited to a small number of countries, and findings on the relationship between parental wealth and educational attainment are hardly comparable across institutional contexts. Furthermore, the specific role of different wealth components remains unclear. This study addresses these gaps by comparing parental wealth-based inequalities in post-secondary enrollment across 15 European countries, using harmonized Household Finance and Consumption Survey data. We assess how different dimensions of parental wealth – net, real, and financial – relate to children's post-secondary enrollment, and how these associations vary across institutional contexts. Our findings reveal substantial enrollment gaps between high- and low-wealth families in all countries, with these disparities remaining significant in ten countries even after accounting for other parental SES dimensions. When considering net wealth, we observe the largest enrollment gaps in Southern and Eastern Europe and smaller gaps in most Continental countries. However, most of country differences are not statistically significant. Real wealth, particularly housing assets, is the strongest predictor of enrollment, whereas the role of household debt is more context-dependent. These results underscore the importance of disaggregating wealth components and considering the specific national context when assessing wealth-related educational inequalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101086"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144879871","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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On the wrong track? Perceived track mismatch among ethnic minority and majority students in the German education system 在错误的轨道上？在德国教育系统中，少数民族学生和多数民族学生的轨道不匹配

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101085

Claudia Diehl, Katja Pomianowicz, Thomas Hinz

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Couples' division of paid work and rising income inequality: A study of 21 OECD countries 夫妻的有偿劳动分工和收入不平等加剧：一项对21个经合组织国家的研究

IF 2 1区社会学

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101084

Efrat Herzberg-Druker

{"title":"Couples' division of paid work and rising income inequality: A study of 21 OECD countries","authors":"Efrat Herzberg-Druker","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous scholars have explored the association between women's changing employment patterns and the changing income inequality in recent decades. While most studies indicate that increased women's employment reduces household inequality, a few suggest the opposite effect. This research investigated whether shifts in the division of paid work (i.e., changes in the working hours) among heterosexual couples, as compared to changes in women's work alone, contribute to changes in income inequality. It also examined whether the selection of couples into the different types of division of paid work based on their level of education is a mechanism underlying the growing inequality. Based on counterfactual analyses of data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), encompassing 21 OECD countries, the findings demonstrate shifts in couples' division of paid work, particularly the increase in fulltime dual-earner households, are associated with rising income inequality in most countries studied. However, changes in educational attainment were not found to be the mechanism underlying the association between changes in couples' division of paid work and changes in income inequality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101084"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722356","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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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

IF 2.7 1区社会学

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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