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Online calls for protest and offline mobilization in autocracies: evidence from the 2017 Dey Protests in Iran European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Neil Ketchley, Abolfazl Sotoudeh-Sherbaf, Christopher Barrie
A body of research suggests that social media has afforded new opportunities for orchestrating mobilization in autocracies. However, the mechanisms linking online coordination with offline mobilization are rarely demonstrated. We address this lacuna by exploring the impact of Farsi-language social media posts that called for protest on precise days and locations in Iran during the 2017 ‘Dey Protests’
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Succeeding without belonging? A double comparison of migrants’ socio-economic attainment and national belonging across origin and residence countries European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Nella Geurts, Karen Phalet
When is migrants’ socio-economic attainment associated with enhanced national belonging to their residence country? Drawing on a large-scale survey, we compare migrants from the same 10 origin countries across Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. We exploit this double comparison across origin groups and residence countries to contextualize mixed findings of positive, negative, and null associations
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Intensity of educational expansion: a key factor in explaining educational inequality across regions and cohorts in Spain European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Dulce Manzano, Julia Cordero-Coma, Manuel T Valdés
Previous sociological research has indirectly examined the association between educational expansion and inequality by analysing changes in inequality over cohorts during the expansion process. This study tests the impact of educational expansion in Spain by using the proportion of people with a specific level of education in a particular region cohort as a direct measure of expansion. More importantly
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Parental responses to children’s early health disadvantages: evidence from a British twin study European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Alicia García-Sierra
Health problems experienced in the early years of life have detrimental consequences for the entire life course. However, parents can, through their child-rearing actions, alleviate or aggravate these effects. This article examines how parents respond to the early physical health disadvantages suffered by their children and whether parents from high- and low-socioeconomic backgrounds develop different
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Children left behind. New evidence on the (adverse) impact of grade retention on educational careers European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Dalit Contini, Guido Salza
This article analyzes the effect of grade retention in high school on later school outcomes in Italy. Grade retention is a strong signal of poor performance, so retained students should revise downwards their perceived probability of success in school. Grade retention also implies an increase in costs. Therefore, we expect a negative effect on future educational careers. However, the evidence from
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The nature and structure of European belief systems: exploring the varieties of belief systems across 23 European countries European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jochem van Noord, Felicity M Turner-Zwinkels, Rebekka Kesberg, Mark J Brandt, Matthew J Easterbrook, Toon Kuppens, Bram Spruyt
We investigate the structure of political belief systems across Europe to investigate what belief systems in European societies, and those who hold them, have in common. In doing so, we answer three questions: First, are political belief system structures similar across Europe? Second, which demographic groups are likely to have similar belief systems within countries? Third, how are belief systems
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Determinants of ethnic harassment among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Frank van Tubergen, Mathijs Kros
The topic of this study is the experiences of ethnic harassment (EH) among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe. EH is defined as unwanted conduct related to racial or ethnic origin that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment. Previous research has shown that EH has a negative impact on the health, well-being, and integration of immigrants. However, little is known
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Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Jan Saarela, Martin Kolk, Ognjen Obućina
We studied how individuals’ ethnolinguistic affiliation relates to the ethnolinguistic structure of kinship in contemporary Finland, a society in which Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking ethnolinguistic groups have coexisted for centuries and mixed marital unions are common. Using multigenerational data from the population register, we determined how the ethnolinguistic registration of children
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The same social elevator? Intergenerational class mobility of second-generation immigrants across Europe European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Georg Kanitsar
Ethnicity and social class are two of the main axes stratifying life chances in developed societies. Nevertheless, knowledge of the integration of ethnic minorities into the pattern of class reproduction remains incipient as evidence stems mostly from studies concentrating on specific ethnicities or single host countries. This article advances this knowledge by providing a comparative perspective on
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Sibling influence on migration pathways from the French overseas to mainland France European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Marine Haddad
Research shows that economic, political and social factors all drive migration, but we still know little about their interaction, especially the interplay between increasingly selective migration policies and family relations. Studies stress the role played by social capital in responding to migration restrictions and the importance of intermediaries in encouraging access to institutional resources
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Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019 European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Julia Hellstrand, Jessica Nisén, Mikko Myrskylä
Fertility declined sharply and unexpectedly in Finland in the 2010s across educational levels. Using Finnish register data, we calculated total fertility rates (TFRs) and the proportion of women expected to have a first birth in 2010–2019 for 153 educational groups—reflecting field and level—and estimated how the characteristics of a group predicted its decline. As the educational field predicts factors
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Welfare state policy and educational inequality: a cross-national multicohort study European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Kevin Schoenholzer, Kaspar Burger
Proponents of welfare policy have argued that publicly funded early childhood education and care (ECEC), paid parental leave, and family benefits spending can weaken the influence of social background on educational outcomes by providing a supplementary source of early investment that particularly benefits disadvantaged families. We analyze whether the welfare state context in which children spend
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Does information reduce interpersonal violence? Evidence from prisons European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Aron Szekely
Why does interpersonal violence erupt? A key source is conflict over resources and a little-studied mechanism for solving such cases concerns the availability of credible information about individuals’ abilities and willingness to use force. Its core prediction is that when such credible information abounds, the outcome of a potential struggle can be anticipated and thus there is no need to fight.
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Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Blaine Robbins, Daniel Karell, Simon Siegenthaler, Aaron Kamm
Leaders are a part of virtually every group and organization, and while they help solve the various collective action problems that groups face, they can also be unprincipled and incompetent, pursuing their own interests over those of the group. What types of circumstances foster prosocial leadership and motivate leaders to pursue group interests? In a modified dictator game (N = 798), we examine the
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Children’s aspirations, their perceptions of parental aspirations, and parents’ factual aspirations—gaining insights into a complex world of interdependencies European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Kerstin Schörner, Felix Bittmann
Children’s educational aspirations have been shown to be highly relevant for their educational trajectories and, therefore, researchers have tried to understand how and when these aspirations are formed. The influence of parental aspirations on the development of children’s aspirations has often been the focus of such investigations in previous studies. Going beyond these earlier approaches, we address
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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people’s life satisfaction: evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Martin Neugebauer, Alexander Patzina, Hans Dietrich, Malte Sandner
How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with the development in prepandemic cohorts (N
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Temporary employment and wage inequality over the life course European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Christoph Janietz, Thijs Bol, Bram Lancee
Wage inequality between workers with different levels of educational attainment has been shown to increase over the life course. In this study, we investigate to what extent this growth is explained by temporary employment. Using linked employer-employee register data from the Netherlands, we follow the labour market careers of workers born in 1979. We decompose the impact of temporary employment on
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The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Bastian A Betthäuser, Nhat An Trinh, Anette Eva Fasang
The increasing prevalence of non-standard work and its adverse consequences are well documented. However, we still know little about how common non-standard work is amongst parents, and whether its negative consequences are further transmitted to their children. Using data from the German Microcensus, we document the prevalence and concentration of temporary employment and non-standard work schedules
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Populist partner: the influence of partner characteristics on populist radical right voting European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Take Sipma, Marcel Lubbers, Niels Spierings
In this study, the role of the partner’s self-assessed socio-economic status and political attitudes on populist radical right voting is studied. We made use of a survey among the adult Dutch population (the LISS panel), with information on the self-assessed occupational class, education and political preferences of both partners in cohabiting heterosexual couples. Our results show that, next to the
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Shelter from the storm: do partnerships buffer the well-being costs of unemployment? European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Sebastian Prechsl, Tobias Wolbring
This article contributes to the existing literature on the effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB) by partnership status. We argue that material and latent deprivation can explain the effects of becoming and remaining unemployed on SWB by partnership status, as both partners and their employment status crucially shape the extent of deprivation. To test our hypothesis about partnership-specific
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Unhealthy sleep assimilation European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Francesco C Billari, Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Luca Stella
Migrant health advantages, the ‘healthy immigrant effect’, erode over time, leading to what is known as unhealthy assimilation. Health-related behaviours are central to unhealthy assimilation, and here we focus on an understudied and central part of our daily time: sleep. Building on diverse streams of literature, we conceptualize and empirically study the sleep assimilation patterns of immigrants
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A liberalizing effect of happiness? The impact of improvements and deteriorations in different dimensions of subjective well-being on concerns about immigration European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Fabian Kratz
High levels of concerns about immigration pose a threat to the successful integration of immigrants and may even destabilize heterogeneous societies. This study assesses the mechanisms underlying the association between subjective well-being and concerns about immigration. The analyses rely on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1999-2017), a long-running data set that follows individuals over time
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Does intergenerational educational mobility vary by sexual identity? A comparative analysis of five OECD countries European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Diederik Boertien, Francisco Perales, Léa Pessin
Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are disadvantaged in terms of health and socio-economic status compared with heterosexual people, yet findings pertaining to educational outcomes vary depending on the specific identity and gender considered. This study delves into these unexplained findings by applying a social-stratification lens, thereby providing an account of how intergenerational educational mobility
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Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Fabian Kalleitner, Licia Bobzien
Empirically, the poor are more likely to support increases in the level of tax progressivity than the rich. Such income-stratified tax preferences can result from differences in preferences of what should be taxed as argued by previous literature. However, it may also result from income-stratified perceptions of what is taxed. This paper argues that the rich perceive higher levels of tax progressivity
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Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Anica Waldendorf
Everyday observations seem to indicate an increase in gender-inclusive language (GIL) in Germany; however, previous research on the prevalence of GIL suggests that it is a marginal phenomenon. Moreover, from a theoretical side, an increase in GIL seems unlikely because of the cognitive challenge language change holds, the existence of multiple GIL variants, and the antagonistic environment that Germany
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Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Nicole Schwitter, Ulf Liebe
In his 2020 ESR article, Arun Frey analysed data on ethnic violence that he web-scraped from a chronicle of hostile incidents against refugees, published by a German charitable foundation and a non-profit organization. He finds remarkable and supposedly causal effects of the New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in 2015/2016 on anti-refugee violence. We argue that it is invalid to draw conclusions regarding
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On the effect of the New Year’s Eve sexual assaults on anti-refugee violence: a rejoinder to Schwitter and Liebe (2023) European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Arun Frey
In their comment on my 2020 ESR article, Schwitter and Liebe suggest that the increase in anti-refugee attacks following the 2015 New Year’s Eve sexual assaults (NYE) could be due to a simultaneous broadening of the German Federal Criminal Police Office definition of anti-refugee violence. I address Schwitter and Liebe’s concerns by (i) removing attacks that were included because of the new definition
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What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Katia Begall
The division of labour remains persistently gendered, in particular among couples with children. Previous research shows that women’s lower economic resources are an important factor driving these inequalities, but because gender and (relative) earnings are highly correlated in male–female couples, their relative importance is difficult to disentangle with observational data. Using a factorial survey
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Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Arno Van Hootegem, Bart Meuleman, Koen Abts
Welfare generosity is a multidimensional concept that refers to both the access to benefits and the levels of benefits (in terms of the amounts paid to recipients). However, in analyses of public support for welfare, this distinction has been largely disregarded. To gain a fuller picture of attitudes towards welfare redistribution, the current study explicitly compares the two elements and examines
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Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Kateryna Golovina, Natalie Nitsche, Venla Berg, Anneli Miettinen, Anna Rotkirch, Markus Jokela
Fertility has declined in developed countries but whether there is a similar pattern in the number of children individuals wish to have (henceforth an ideal number of children) remains unclear. Using repeated cross-sectional survey data from the Finnish Family Barometers, we examine birth cohort changes in the ideal number of children among men and women from five birth cohorts (1970–1974, 1975–1979
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Leaving the bike unlocked: trust discrimination in inter-ethnic encounters European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Georg Kanitsar
Migration and ethnic diversity are said to hamper the cultivation of social trust, as native citizens may hesitate to trust ethnic out-groups and racial minorities. This article examines trust discrimination against ethno-racial minorities in everyday interactions. In a field intervention, cyclists were approached with a request for help that required them to leave their bicycles alone for a short
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Transformed ‘postmodern’ life courses? Continuity and change in young adults’ labour market trajectories in Norway European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Mari Amdahl Heglum
Accounts of contemporary youth often take increased variability in the young adult life course for granted. However, we lack studies examining variability in the labour market domain during the rapid globalization of the three most recent decades. Employing the theoretical concepts of differentiation and de-standardization, cross-cohort change is evaluated for young adults in Norway, separately by
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A distaste for insecurity: job preferences of young people in the transition to adulthood European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Lin Rouvroye, Hendrik P van Dalen, Kène Henkens, Joop J Schippers
Given the trend towards labour market flexibility in various European countries, this article examines whether the offered type of employment contract has an impact on young people’s ratings of the attractiveness of a job. It empirically assesses the notion that young people’s preference for secure employment increases as they transition into adulthood. We conducted a factorial survey among a representative
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Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Björn Högberg, Laura Bernardi
Crossover effects of parental unemployment on subjective wellbeing of children attract growing attention in research on social inequalities. Recent economic crises call for identifying policies that mitigate the adverse effects of unemployment. Building on the theoretical insights from Capability Approach, we examine the relationship between parental unemployment and subjective wellbeing of adolescents
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Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Joël Berger
Social capital, comprising networks, generalized trust, and cooperation norms, is often considered a key factor in promoting prosperity and cooperation. Informal norm enforcement also drives cooperation. While early theories of social capital and norm enforcement propose that networks encourage sanctions, strong reciprocity theory argues that sanctioning non-cooperation is a universal preference. In
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Do grandparents really matter? The effect of regular grandparental childcare on the second-birth transition European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Roberta Rutigliano
In the last five decades, almost all European countries have experienced a decline in actual fertility, but not in desired fertility. The incompatibility of motherhood and paid work has been identified as one of the main drivers of women’s unrealized fertility desires. Regular grandparental childcare might reduce mothers’ work–family conflicts, increasing their chances of having a second birth. An
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Timing of citizenship acquisition and immigrants’ children educational outcomes: a family fixed-effects approach European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Marie Labussière
Various studies suggest a positive effect of host country citizenship on the educational outcomes of immigrants’ children. However, little is known about when and for whom citizenship matters and how much this is affected by potential endogeneity in the relationship between parental citizenship acquisition and their children’s educational outcomes. Focusing on the Netherlands, this article exploits
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How women’s employment instability affects birth transitions: the moderating role of family policies in 27 European countries European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Chen-Hao Hsu
Why women in some countries are more likely than others to postpone childbirth when facing employment instability? This study uses 2010–2019 EU-SILC panel data to explore whether the impacts of women’s employment instability, including being unemployed or temporarily employed by fixed-term contracts, on the first- and second-birth transitions differ across 27 European countries and how governments’
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Differences in access to social capital across societies European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Gabriel Otero, Beate Völker, Jesper Rözer, Gerald Mollenhorst
This paper explores country-level macro-structural conditions that are associated with social capital, measured as individuals’ access to social resources. To explain differences in social capital across societies, we formulate hypotheses based on welfare state generosity, cultural orientations (collectivism vs. individualism), and income inequality. We test our hypotheses using data from the International
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The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Helen Kowalewska, Agnese Vitali
This article examines the relationship between female breadwinning and life satisfaction in heterosexual couples. We extend previous research by treating the man’s employment status as a variable that helps to explain rather than confounds this relationship, and by comparing multiple countries through regression analyses of European Social Survey data (Rounds 2–9). Results provide evidence of a female-breadwinner
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Proximity to refugee accommodations does not affect locals’ attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Germany European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Katja Schmidt, Jannes Jacobsen, Theresa Iglauer
With the so-called ‘long summer of migration’ of 2015, there was an urgent need to accommodate many refugees in Germany. This situation was framed as a ‘refugee reception crisis’, and it revealed diametrically opposed stances within German society. Within this debate, anti-refugee sentiment is often explained with the placement of nearby refugee reception facilities. Conclusive evidence of this claim
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Origins of attainment: do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap? European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Kristian Bernt Karlson, Jesper Fels Birkelund
We study the overlap in the overall impact of family background on two widely studied labour market outcomes by considering whether brother similarities in occupational status are rooted in the same underlying family characteristics that affect brother similarities in income. We extend previous research using sibling correlations as an omnibus measure of total family background impact on a given outcome
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Vocational education, general education, and on-the-job learning over the life cycle European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Ilse Tobback, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert, Kristof De Witte
We investigate whether vocationally and generally educated individuals differ in their on-the-job learning and how this difference evolves over the career. To this end, we exploit the European Skills and Jobs Survey dataset and rely on instrumental variable estimation. While our descriptive results suggest that workers with a vocational degree experience on average more learning, this conclusion largely
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Minorities moving out from minority-rich neighbourhoods: does school ethnic context matter in inter-generational residential desegregation? European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Kadi Kalm, David Leonard Knapp, Anneli Kährik, Kadri Leetmaa, Tiit Tammaru
This paper aims to develop a fuller understanding of the relationship between the ethnic composition of childhood residential neighbourhoods, schools, and residential neighbourhoods later in life in producing and reproducing segregation. We apply a longitudinal research design on linked individual-level data from Estonia. Estonia is an interesting case because of the Soviet era population distribution
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Material deprivation in childhood and unequal political socialization: the relationship between children’s economic hardship and future voting European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
Long-term socialization patterns are considered a key explanation for socio-economic inequalities in political participation. Material conditions in youth and childhood are assumed to contribute to rather stable trajectories of political apathy or involvement and lay the foundations for unequal participation from before voting age and far into adulthood. However, our understanding of when such inequalities
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The impact of religious involvement on trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness: evidence from two British panels European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Ozan Aksoy, Dingeman Wiertz
Does religious involvement make people more trusting and prosocial? Considering conflicting theories and mixed prior evidence, we subject this question to a stringent test using large-scale, representative data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2009, N ≈ 26,000) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2021, N ≈ 80,000). We employ cross-lagged panel models with individual fixed effects
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Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Carly van Mensvoort, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Tanja van der Lippe
Prior research on the link between managers’ gender and workplace gender equity primarily focuses on career outcomes. The present study explores overly demanding work climates, which we see as a realization of the ideal worker norm, bad for all workers, but a particular barrier to women’s careers. We examine whether female managers are ‘agents of change’ toward better work climates, while also exploring
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Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Jörg Dollmann, Jan O Jonsson, Carina Mood, Frida Rudolphi
In many Western countries, researchers have documented ambitious educational choices among students of immigrant origin, for example, the tendency to choose academically more demanding routes than others at given levels of school achievement (e.g. grades, GPA). While this may indicate integration, some warn against an ‘immigrant optimism trap’, because choosing more demanding tracks at lower levels
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What buffered the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression? A longitudinal study of caregivers of school aged children in Ireland European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 James Laurence, Helen Russell, Emer Smyth
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought acute harm to global mental health, especially among vulnerable populations. We explore what factors in people’s lives buffered the impact of the pandemic on depression; in particular, the role of social resources, economic resources, religiosity, and quality of their local environment. Drawing on three waves of longitudinal cohort data (two pre-pandemic waves and
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Social media and hiring: a survey experiment on discrimination based on online social class cues European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Diana Roxana Galos
Discrimination based on social class is challenging to study, and therefore likely to be underappreciated due to its subtle nature. Social class is often difficult to gauge from traditional resumes, yet, the expansion of social networking platforms provides employers with an additional source of information. Given that many individuals have a social media presence today, employers can increasingly
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Are we looking at crises through polarized lenses? Predicting public assessments of the official early responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in eight countries European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Josep Lobera, Andrés Santana, Catherine Gross
Understanding public appraisal of the governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has extensive implications for the political management of crises that require a substantial amount of civil collaboration. Using open data from a comparative online survey in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States), we have run mixed multilevel
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Trust intermediary in a cryptomarket for illegal drugs European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Filippo Andrei, Davide Barrera, Krzysztof Krakowski, Emilio Sulis
Cooperation without third-party enforcement is particularly puzzling in illicit online markets given the anonymity of online exchanges in the ‘dark web’ and the asymmetry of information between buyers and sellers. Most of the literature investigates the effects of reputation systems on sales. Less is known about the role of (semi)institutionalized solutions to trust problems, such as the escrow service
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Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: evidence from Sweden European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Marcus Österman, Anton Brännlund
How unemployment affects electoral participation is a archetypal question in political sociology and of particular relevance in economic crises; in the 1930s as well as during a pandemic. A frequent argument in the literature is that unemployment leads to political withdrawal as the unemployed have to focus on their economy and other personal matters. Some scholars, on the other hand, reason that unemployment
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Cohort changes in the association between parental divorce and children’s education: A long-term perspective on the institutionalization hypothesis European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Matthijs Kalmijn
The institutionalization hypothesis argues that in contexts where divorce is more common, its consequences will be less severe. An implication of this hypothesis is that the association between parental divorce and child outcomes will decline over time, parallel to the historical rise in divorce. Building on a handful of earlier tests of this idea, the current analysis provides a long-term cohort perspective
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Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Benita Combet
This article examines whether gender differences in preferences for field of study characteristics can explain gendered major choice. Specifically, this study focuses on a broad range of subject characteristics that are often simultaneously present: systemizing skills required (math intensity, reasoning style, affinity for technical work tasks), future job characteristics corresponding with the male
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Professors’ gender biases in assessing applicants for professorships European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Heike Solga, Alessandra Rusconi, Nicolai Netz
Recent evidence suggests that women are more likely to be selected for professorships when they apply. This female advantage may be partly due to the widely promoted gender-equality policy of having a substantial female quota in selection committees. Yet, research has rarely considered whether male and female committee members evaluate applicants for professorships differently. We address this research
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Young adults’ labour market transitions and intergenerational support in Germany European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Anna Manzoni, Michael Gebel
Research has shown that parents provide considerable support to their children; however, we know little about the influence of young adults’ employment experiences on the support they receive from their parents. We draw on data from the German Family Panel pairfam for birth cohorts 1981–1983 and 1991–1993 and use a first difference panel estimator with asymmetric effects to examine the extent to which
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Even in preschools: analysing the preschool and neighbourhood segregation gap in Swedish municipalities European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Andreas Alm Fjellborg, Håkan Forsberg
Preschool segregation has not been the focus of research efforts to the same extent as compulsory school segregation. This is at least in part a consequence of the lack of large-scale, registry-based data sources on where children live and where they attend preschool. This paper presents a full-population account of discrepancies between preschool segregation and neighbourhood segregation covering
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A ‘potential motherhood’ penalty? A longitudinal analysis of the wage gap based on potential fertility in Germany and the United Kingdom European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Anna Zamberlan, Paolo Barbieri
While labour market penalties related to motherhood are a widely studied topic, less is known about the implications of signalled potential fertility. We thus posed the question of whether potential fertility—operationalized as the likelihood that a childless woman will transition to motherhood depending on observed sociodemographic characteristics—is associated with a wage penalty and—if so—what the
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Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data European Sociological Review (IF 4.099) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Björn Högberg, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Jonas Voßemer
Parental unemployment can have detrimental effects on life chances of the children, and thereby reinforce inequalities across generations. Despite a substantial literature documenting that the health of infants at birth can have large and long-lasting consequences, research on intergenerational unemployment effects on infant health is scant. This study fills the gap using high-quality register data