Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic
governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more …

Postindustrial occupational change has ended an era of unprecedented upward mobility.
We examine the political implications of this immense structural shift by introducing the …

Data from the distant past are fertile ground for testing social science theories of education
and social mobility. In this study, we construct a dataset from 3,640 tomb epitaphs of males …

A large body of often rather complex findings on intergenerational social mobility has by now
come into existence but theoretical development has not kept pace. In this paper, focusing …

Aim: Subjective appraisals of socio-economic status (SES) are robustly associated with
health outcomes, even when controlling for objective SES. Is this because objective SES is …

Social mobility research has widely proliferated over the last 25 years. Bibliometric study of
the research field shows a five-fold increase compared to publication rates previously …

This article explores intergenerational class mobility patterns and the role played by
education in Spain using counterfactuals. Both men and women born from 1926 to 1981 are …

In social stratification research, the most frequently used social class schema are based on
employment relations (EGP and ESEC). These schemes have been propelled to paradigms …

This study investigates the effect that formal education, as a factor of socio-economic
development, has on the intensity and forms of political protest. By way of increased …

Recent studies of social mobility have documented that not only who your parents are, but
also where you grow up, substantially influences subsequent life chances. We bring these …