Teodoro Luque-Martínez , Wagner A. Kamakura , Salvador Del Barrio-García
{"title":"How social and economic conditions impact socioeconomic mobility. The case of Spain","authors":"Teodoro Luque-Martínez , Wagner A. Kamakura , Salvador Del Barrio-García","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100931","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We rely on Permanent Income to define a socioeconomic stratification system based on a latent trait measurement model using objective and widely available socioeconomic variables as reflective indicators, with an official panel of households spanning 2006–2020 in Spain. We obtain an objective and transparent stratification of Spanish society for these 15 years, and track social mobility at the household level between consecutive years that included economic expansion, a major recession, economic recovery and a major pandemic.We have quantified social mobility (greater in the extreme strata) in each of the periods of growth, crisis and economic recovery. Crisis derived from COVID-19 has been more drastic and has affected more the consumption of households under 65 years of age or with few members. In Spain, measures adopted against the effects of the COVID crisis have generated less inequality than those adopted during the Big Recession of 2008.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 100931"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562424000441/pdfft?md5=3918424e5ff20634ac10b8d3318dda87&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562424000441-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140796150","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}
{"title":"Navigating bias? An assessment of access to, use of, and returns to social capital in the school-to-work transition of descendants of immigrants","authors":"Anton B. Andersson , Rosa Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100919","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100919","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research in several advanced economies has found that the descendants of immigrants tend to experience persistent difficulties in entering the labour market. This article tests whether social capital contributes to the disadvantage of descendants of immigrants in the school-to-work transition when compared to their native-background peers in Sweden. The study uses the CILS4EU survey, which provides information on friendship ties measured at age 15 and labour market outcomes at age 19. This allows for an analysis of networks formed before labour market entrance, an extensive control setup, and a comparison of measures of outgoing, incoming, and reciprocated friendship ties. The results show that the descendants of immigrants have access to less social capital measured as employed friends, but that they are as likely as natives to use their contacts to obtain a job. The returns to social capital are similar in terms of unemployment risk, but descendants of immigrants have a lower payoff when it comes to earnings. The study concludes that social capital contributes to, but is not the main driver of their labour market disadvantage in the school-to-work transition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 100919"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562424000325/pdfft?md5=592d9645b97c1f5e8b7459ff80224a50&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562424000325-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140763718","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}
{"title":"Compensatory advantage and inequality in educational aspirations","authors":"L. Flóra Drucker","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using two administrative and survey-based datasets from Hungary, I look at how children from different socioeconomic backgrounds update their educational aspirations in response to having to repeat a grade late in primary school. I find that grade retention is detrimental to aspirations and later secondary school track choice, and on average, it affects children of lower socioeconomic backgrounds more adversely. The average effect masks heterogeneities by the reasons for repeating: those children who are likely to repeat seventh grade due to poor mathematics performance do not change their aspirations significantly after retention, regardless of their socioeconomic background. However, they are less likely to attend a secondary school track that provides access to tertiary education. As we move towards higher performers in mathematics – and consequently, more heterogeneous reasons for repeating –, retention results in a larger drop in aspirations and the probability of a secondary track ending with a high school diploma. In both outcomes, high socioeconomic status largely and, in some cases, entirely offsets the adverse effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100918"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562424000313/pdfft?md5=8cb354e40c5bad077f261d9bb4e2eb62&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562424000313-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140555685","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}
{"title":"Educational mobility and subjective well-being from an intergenerational perspective","authors":"Yanwen Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The well-being implications of intergenerational educational mobility have been extensively studied, yet the focus predominantly lies on primary movers—individuals who themselves move up or down the educational ladder. Less is known about the impact of adult children’s educational mobility on their parents’ subjective well-being. Moreover, the role of family structures and gender dynamics in shaping the well-being outcomes of such mobility has often been overlooked. The study employs the Diagonal Mobility Model to estimate the effects of net mobility on subjective well-being, independently of both parents’ (origin) and their adult children’s (destination) educational levels, using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies. The results show that the subjective well-being of both generations was influenced by origin and destination, with a more pronounced effect from their own education. Notably, downward mobility adversely affected individuals’ and their parents’ subjective well-being, a phenomenon observed exclusively among those in only-child families. Among these parents, mothers with an upwardly mobile daughter reported the highest life satisfaction. These findings point to a shift in the traditional gendered parent-child dynamics and underscore the adverse consequences of downward mobility that sway both generations in only-child families.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100917"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140339574","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}
{"title":"The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China","authors":"Haijing Dai , Gaoming Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100916","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>School closures and remoted learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively affected students worldwide, particularly those from disadvantaged families. This study examines the experiences of remote learning in county key high schools in China, which link selected rural students with urban educational resources and future social mobility. Our qualitative data suggest that during the school closure, the cultivation of a learning habitus of hardworking sprits and aspiration of upward mobility at school was disrupted, despite the devoted efforts of teachers and staff, and the students largely felt lost in their home environment in rural villages. Only a few of the students were pulled back to the school learning habitus by committed teachers, educated family members, or self-disciplining, combating the adverse impacts of COVID-19 related school closures. Implications for habitus change, remote learning, county key high schools, and educational development in rural China are also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100916"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140163956","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}
{"title":"Does employability help to cope with job insecurity? An analysis of workers' well-being with Swiss panel data","authors":"Leandro Ivan Canzio","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100915","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Can perceived employability mitigate the negative impacts of job insecurity on wellbeing?. We address this question using fixed-effects models on panel data from. Switzerland. To measure job insecurity, we use two subjective indicators (risk of job. loss and fear of job loss in the last year) and an objective one (having a temporary contract). We assess well-being by studying job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and mental health, and perform separate analyses for men and women. Results suggest that employability does not mitigate the impacts of job insecurity on job satisfaction. For life satisfaction, employability reduces the impacts of the risk of job loss in the last year, but only among men. Regarding mental health, employability partially offsets the impacts of the risk of job loss in the last year for both men and women. We conclude that even though employability might help, it does not shield workers from the negative impacts of job insecurity. This suggests that the flexicurity strategy falls short of mitigating the non-pecuniary impacts of job insecurity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100915"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562424000283/pdfft?md5=c7c68e3e955b11ee52d8aef674d596f7&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562424000283-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140191649","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}
{"title":"Heterogeneity, selection, and the policy effect of educational expansion on college graduate earnings in China, 1981–2015","authors":"Maocan Guo , Xiaogang Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100912","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines the impact of social origin on the returns to college education in the context of China’s higher education expansion since 1999. Utilizing a double-treatment setting, a marginal treatment effect framework is adopted to estimate the causal effect of college education on earnings, while a difference-in-differences methodology identifies the policy effect of educational expansion on the college premium. Analysis of data from a series of nationally representative Chinese surveys reveals that the “true” college earnings premium is rather small for the post-expansion cohort, and that much of the observed earnings gap between college and high school graduates after the expansion is due to returns to unobserved abilities. Further analysis shows that the college earnings premium after the expansion declines more for rural-origin children with schooling probabilities in the top percentiles than for their urban counterparts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100912"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140062007","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}
{"title":"Do the institutionally disadvantaged students benefit more from boarding at school in their studying? The role of migration and Hukou status in China","authors":"Yuying Tong , Yiqing Gan , Ming Wen","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100913","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the impact of boarding school on academic achievement has been extensively debated, the differential effects on distinct student groups divided institutionally have yet to be thoroughly explored. Moreover, previous studies focus on comparing boarding schools vs. day schools, which tend to suffer from bias due to the sorting processes of different school types. In this study, we employ the school-fixed effect model and inverse probability weighting approach to examine the association of boarding on middle-school students’ academic outcomes in China, where most schools have a mixed population of boarders and non-boarders. Based on the two waves of panel data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) in 2013 and 2014, we find that boarding is positively associated with students’ academic scores, particularly math and Chinese. Rural-origin students, including rural local students and rural migrant students, benefit more from living on campus. Reduced study distractions, such as housework and playing can partially explain this positive boarding effect. This study lends empirical support to the positive effect of boarding on academic performance among students who are segregated by <em>Hukou</em> and migration status in China.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100913"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069186","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}
{"title":"American versus East Asian norms and labor market institutions affecting socioeconomic inequality","authors":"Arthur Sakamoto, Anita Koo","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100914","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We review research on social stratification and labor market institutions with a focus on typical East Asian practices versus common American perspectives about income inequalities. In contrast to American concerns about discrimination, equality of opportunity and individualism, the understanding of inequalities in East Asian societies is more influenced by a Confucian cultural tradition. East Asian norms and labor market institutions play an important role in reducing their level of household income inequality relative to the U.S. where the Gini coefficient has been increasing for decades and shows no signs of decreasing despite declining levels of discrimination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100914"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031201","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}
{"title":"Can sports and music level the playing field? Adolescents’ extracurricular activities and the reproduction of social inequalities in cognitive skills","authors":"Henriette Bering , Wiebke Schulz","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Extracurricular activities in adolescence are associated with adolescents’ cognitive skills. While participation in extracurricular activities is stratified, it is unclear whether all adolescents benefit from such activities to the same extent. This study explores whether participation in extracurricular activities functions as an equalizer or reinforcer of inequalities by examining how different types of activities (music, sports, or both combined) are associated with cognitive skills in adolescents from families with less or more education. We use data from the German SOEP household panel study and employ propensity score techniques to address differential selection into activities. Our results show that participation in both activities combined is most strongly related to cognitive test scores, followed by music activities and sports. Further, the results show that adolescents with more educated parents show a stronger link between participation in both activities combined and cognitive test scores than adolescents from less educated families. The same pattern holds for sports, although estimates are less clear. In contrast, the link between participation in music and cognitive test scores shows no variation by parental background. Our findings indicate that the participation in extracurricular activities does not diminish the gap in cognitive skills between children from less and more educated families; in fact, involvement in both activities combined further widens this disparity. Hence, even if adolescents from different socioeconomic backgrounds participated in activities to the same extent, gaps in cognitive skills by parental education are not reduced, and extracurricular activities thus have the potential to reinforce social inequalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 100895"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562424000088/pdfft?md5=df4acd3dc2c2df81b30d1c875bf6f8ae&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562424000088-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042058","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}