Cross‐country rankings in intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology

J Blanden - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper summarizes research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility–whether
classified by income, education or social class. The literatures on education and income …

Inequality of opportunity in comparative perspective: Recent research on educational attainment and social mobility

R Breen, JO Jonsson - Annu. Rev. Sociol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
Studies of how characteristics of the family of origin are associated with educational and
labor market outcomes indicate the degree of openness of societies and have a long …

Effects of socioeconomic status on physical and psychological health: lifestyle as a mediator

J Wang, L Geng - International journal of environmental research and …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Health is correlated to people's socioeconomic status (SES) and lifestyle. This study
examined the impact of SES on respondents' physical and psychological health. Moreover …

Global increases in individualism

HC Santos, MEW Varnum… - Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Individualism appears to have increased over the past several decades, yet most research
documenting this shift has been limited to the study of a handful of highly developed …

[PDF][PDF] Metodología de la investigación social cuantitativa

P López-Roldán, S Fachelli - 2015 - ddd.uab.cat
METODOLOGÍA DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL CUANTITATIVA Page 1 METODOLOGÍA
DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL CUANTITATIVA Pedro López-Roldán Sandra Fachelli …

The global increase in the socioeconomic achievement gap, 1964 to 2015

AK Chmielewski - American sociological review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The “socioeconomic achievement gap”—the disparity in academic achievement between
students from high-and low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds—is well-known in the …

Who are the “illegals”? The social construction of illegality in the United States

RD Flores, A Schachter - American Sociological Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Immigration scholars have increasingly questioned the idea that “illegality” is a fixed,
inherent condition. Instead, the new consensus is that immigration laws produce “illegality.” …

Why should women get less? Evidence on the gender pay gap from multifactorial survey experiments

K Auspurg, T Hinz, C Sauer - American Sociological Review, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Gender pay gaps likely persist in Western societies because both men and women consider
somewhat lower earnings for female employees than for otherwise similar male employees …

The polarization myth: Occupational upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, 1992–2015

D Oesch, G Piccitto - Work and Occupations, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The consensus view in economics is that labor markets are polarizing as job creation takes
place in high-skilled and low-skilled occupations, while jobs shrink in midskilled ones. The …

Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low-and middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper

LD Howe, B Galobardes, A Matijasevich… - International journal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Much has been written about the measurement of socio-economic position (SEP) in high-
income countries (HIC). Less has been written for an epidemiology, health systems and …