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FINAL PROGRAM

Cocktails until 6:00 pm
Registration until 7:00 pm

President's Room
Woolsey (Memorial) Hall, 2nd floor
500 College Street (corner of College & Grove)
[map to Woolsey Hall]

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4

Registration
Room 121

Plenary Session
Room 127
Session Chair: Richard Breen

Introduction and Welcome
Robert Mare (UCLA), President of RC28
Richard Breen (CIQLE, Yale), Conference Organizer

Meir Yaish & Robert Andersen- Economic Development, Inequality, and Social Mobility in 21 Democracies

Jo Blanden, Kathryn Wilson, Robert Haveman & Tim Smeeding - Understanding the Mechanisms behind Intergenerational Persistence: A Comparison between the US and UK

David B. Grusky, Janne O. Jonsson, Reinhard Pollak & Matthew Di Carlo - Trends in Social Mobility in the USA. A New Approach to Modeling Trend in Social Class, Gradational, and Microclass Reproduction

Coffee Break

Income and Earnings 1
Room 127
Session Chair: Tim Smeeding

Richard Breen & Leire Salazar - Race Differences in the Effects of Assortative Marriage on Earnings Inequality in the United States

Flavio Carvalhaes, Pedro Ferreira de Souza & Carlos Antonio Costa Ribeiro - Macro or Micro? Class Analysis and the Drop of Income Inequality in Brazil from 1981 to 2007

Tali Kristal - Good Times Bad Times: Income Inequality between Capital and Labor, 1960-2000

Roland Verwiebe, Johannes Giesecke & Patrick Praeg - Shrinking of the Middle Class? Income Polarization in Germany between 1984 and 2008

Labor Market Transitions 1
Room 128
Session Chair: Vanessa Gash

Irma Mooi-Reci & Melinda Mills - Unemployment Benefits, Employment Stability and Subsequent Job Quality: Longitudinal Evidence from the Netherlands 1985-2000

Martina Dieckhoff - Unemployment and the Quality of Future Jobs: A Comparative Analysis

Berkay Özcan - Marriage and Cohabitation: Changing Family Influence on the Transition to Self-Employment

Volker Lang - The Effects of Aging and Retirement Processes on Older Workers' Employment Trajectories

Ethnicity, Immigration, and Education
Room 129
Session Chair: Signe Andersen

Manon de Heus & Jaap Dronkers–Immigrants’ Children Scientific Performance in a Double Comparative Design: The Influence of Origin, Destination, and Community

Jörg Dollmann & Cornelia Kristen- Secondary Effects of Ethnic Origin? Turkish Children at the Transition from Primary to Secondary Education in the German School System

Kristina Lindemann & Ellu Saar - Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in the Educational Career of Second Generation Immigrants in Estonia

Education 1
Room 127
Session Chair: Meir Yaish

Anette Fasang & Hannah Brückner - Social Capital and Educational Attainment

Gabriele Ballarino & Hans Schadee - Not so Persistent Inequality: Social Background Effects on Schooling Achievement in Comparative Perspective

Methods
Room 128
Session Chair: Mads Meier Jaeger

Maarten Buis - The Consequences of Unobserved Heterogeneity in a Sequential Logit Model

Kristian Karlson & Anders Holm - Scaling Effects in Logistic Regression: Consequences for Educational Research

Harry Ganzeboom - Social Mobility and Status Attainment in a European Perspective: the European Social Survey as a Source of Intergenerational Stratification Data

Dominique Joye & Julien Chevillard- Actuality of Stratification Scales: The Case of Switzerland

4:15 pm – 6:00 pm

Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality 1
Room 127
Session Chair: Robert Mare

Tomáš Katrňák, - Age, Period and Cohorts in Social Fluidity in the Czech Republic between 1989 and 2009

Carina Mood, Erik Bihagen, Janne O. Jonsson - The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sweden

Richard Breen – Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century

Ellu Saar - Changes in Intergenerational Mobility and Educational Inequality in Estonia: Comparative Analysis of Cohorts Born between 1930 and 1974

Careers
Room 128
Session Chair: Daniela Grunow

Matissa Hollister - Why Didn't the Joneses Keep Up? The Unusual Occupational Outcomes of the Late Baby Boomers and the Future of Professional Work

Maarten H.J. Wolbers & Wout Ultee - Career Peaks in the Netherlands in the Period 1955-2005 Testing Goldthorpe's Assumption of Career Maturity with Occupational Histories

Bingdao Zheng - Political Dynamics and Career Patterns in the People’s Republic of China, 1949--2006

Family Formation and Fertility
Room 129
Session Chair: Lynn Prince Cooke

Anette Fasang, Jörg Lüdicke & Karl Ulrich Mayer - Sequence constraints in family formation in West/East Germany

Hande Inanc - Partnership Formation in the Context of Increasing Job Insecurity

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5

Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality 2
Room 127
Session Chair: Harry Ganzeboom

Marco Albertini - The Inequality between Generations: A Game Theoretic Model of the Public and Private Generational Contract: Multiple Equilibria and Conflict

Pedro Ferreira de Souza - Race and Social Origins: What Influences Social Mobility in Brazil? A Comparison of Linear Status Attainment Regression and Multinomial Conditional Logit Models

Fabian T. Pfeffer - Understanding Intergenerational Wealth Effects: The U.S. and Germany in Comparison

Jaime Riviere - High Social Fluidity in Spain: Explaining the Facts

Health 1
Room 128
Session Chair: Juho Härkönen

Esther M. Friedman, Arun S. Karlamangla & Teresa E. Seeman  - History of Adverse Life Events and Salivary Cortisol in Midlife

Vida Maralani - Smoking and Schooling across Generations

Robert White & Alberto Palloni - Childhood Health and the Reproduction of Inequalities

Christopher Wildeman - Imprisonment and Infant Mortality

Labor Market Transitions 2
Room 129
Session Chair: Hans Dietrich

Irena Kogan, Michael Gebel & Clemens Noelke - Making the Transition: Education and Labor Market Entry in Central- and Eastern Europe

Irma Mooi-Reci & Ronald Dekker - Temporary Employment Contracts: Short-term Blessings or Long-term Traps?

Jan Paul Heisig & Johannes Giesecke - Changing Job-Shift Patterns? The Evolution of West German Job Mobility, 1984-2008

Tracking in Education
Room 127
Session Chair: Herman Van de Werfhorst

Hans Dietrich - Apprenticeship Training or University: An Educational Decision of German Upper Secondary Graduates (Abiturienten)

Anders Holm, Mads Meier Jaeger & David Reimer - Off the Beaten Track: Effect of Upper Secondary Education Track on Transition to Tertiary Education in Denmark

Henning Lohmann & Olaf Groh-Samberg - Why to Choose a Non-recommended School Track? Determinants and Consequences of the Non-acceptance of Teacher's Recommendations in Germany

Steffen Schindler & Markus Lörz - The Role of School Performance in Explaining Social Inequalities in the Transition to Higher Education over Time in Germany

Labor Markets 1
Room 128
Session Chair: Javier Polavieja

Dohoon Lee - The Economic Return to Education Revisited: The Role of Cognitive Skills and Socioemotional Traits in Wage Inequality

Sarah Burgard - Community Conditions and Employment Insecurity in the United States

Lincoln Quillian - The Long-Term Effects of Residence in a Declining Labor Market

Alexey Bessudnov - ‘No Country for Old Men’: Explaining the Age-Earnings Profile in Russia

Family Instability and Dissolution
Room 129
Session Chair: Marco Albertini

Lynn P. Cooke & Vanessa Gash - Women's Part-time Employment and Marital Stability in West Germany, the UK and the US

Juho Härkönen, Jani Erola & Jaap Dronkers - Parental Divorce and Offspring Marriage in Finland – Later, But With Whom?

Holger Kern - The Political Consequences of Transitions out of Marriage in Great Britain

Petr Fučík- Divorce and the Marriage Reproduction Strategies: The Case of Czech Republic

Yale Tour - Leaves from the Yale Visitor Center at 149 Elm Street at 2:00pm.

Quinnipiac Club
221 Church Street,
New Haven, CT
[map to Q Club]

Signe Hald Andersen - Active Labour Market programs and crime: On the Causal Effects of Intensified ALMPs on Unemployed Persons’ Crime Rates

Hannah Brueckner, Natalie Nitsche and Silke Aisenbrey-Timing of Family Formation among Highly Educated Women

Ana Cristina M. Collares - Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in Brazil: the Expansion of Brazilian Postsecondary System from 1982 to 2006

Jaap Dronkers & Silvia Avram - A Cross-national Analysis of the Relations between School Choice and Effectiveness Differences between Private-Dependent and Public Schools. A New Approach

Margarita Torre Fernández - Women’s Attrition from Male-Dominated Occupations.

Kerstin Hoenig - Conformity to Social Network Expectations as a Rational Choice: Significant Others' Influence on Educational Aspirations

Sun-Jae Hwang - Diverging Earnings Returns to Education Under Economic Restructuring: Implications of South Korea since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

Hande Inanc and Berkay Özcan - Horizontal and Vertical Sex Segregation in Academic Employment in Turkey

Martin Neugebauer - Meritocracy and Institutional Setup: The Relative Importance of Primary and Secondary Effects on the Transition from Elementary to Secondary School in Germany

Olaf Groh-Samberg - Intergenerational Transmissions of Education, Social Class and Income – Evidence from Household Panel Data

Guan Kung Saw - Evaluating the Effect of Teacher Degree Level on Student Achievement in Taiwan.

Quinnipiac Club
221 Church Street,
New Haven, CT
[map to Q Club]

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

Comparative Educational Inequality
Room 127
Session Chair: Jaap Dronkers

Robert M. Hauser – On “Quality and Equity on the Performance of Students and Schools”

Anne McDaniel - Women's Share of Tertiary Education: A Cross-National Analysis

Daniel Long - Cross-National Educational Inequalities and Opportunities to Learn

Ethnicity, Immigration, and Labor Markets
Room 128
Session Chair: Johannes Giesecke

Agniezska Kanas, Frank van Tubergen & Tanja van der Lippe - The Impact of Origin and Host Country Schooling and Work Experience on the Employment and Occupational Status of Immigrants

Noah Lewin-Epstein & Moshe Semyonov - Immigration and the Nativity Wealth Gap: Lessons from Israel

Simonetta Longhi, Cheti Nicoletti & Lucinda Platt - Understanding Ethnic Pay Gaps: A Decomposition of the Pay Gaps of Selected Ethno-Religious Groups in the UK

Health 2
Room 129
Session Chair: Vida Maralani

Sean Clouston - Getting Married for Health: Analyzing Self-Rated Health around the Transition into Marriage in the USA

Margot Jackson - Generational Differences in Youths' Weight Trajectories:
Foreign-Born Integration during the Transition to Adulthood

Junko Nishimura - Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health in East Asia

Jani Erola & Sakari Karvonen- Sibling Resemblance and Parental Death

Gender and Labor Markets
Room 127
Session Chair: Anette Fasang

Markus Gangl - Assessing the Role of Statistical Discrimination for Gender Inequality in the Labor Market: A New Indicator and an Empirical Analysis of Trends in the Gender Wage Gap in the United States and Germany

Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens & Laura Romeu Gordo - Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Karin Hallden, Tamar Kricheli Katz & Asaf Levanon - Where Do Mothers Fare Worst? The Motherhood Wage Penalty from a Cross-National Perspective

Javier Polavieja - Sex-Differences in Job-Allocation: An Investment Model with Macro-Level Effects

Life Course
Room 128
Session Chair: Karl Ulrich Mayer

Björn Halleröd - What Do Children Know about their Future: Do Children’s Expectations Predict Outcomes in Adult Life?

Mads Meier Jæger - Returns to Beauty over the Life Course

Anna Schröder - Patterns of Work-Life Mobility in Britain Bridging Gaps between Intra- and Intergenerational Mobility Research

Heike Trappe & Christian Schmitt - The Impact of Occupational Mobility on Family Formation in Germany and the UK

Intergenerational Transmission
Room 129
Session Chair: Anders Holm

Marco Albertini & Jonas Radl - The Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality through Inter-vivos Transfers: Assessing the Impact of Social Class on Parental Transfer Behavior

Katerina Bodovski - Parental Practices and Educational Achievement: SES, Race, and Habitus

Bongoh Kye & Robert Mare - Intergenerational Effects of Enhancing Women's Educational Attainments in South Korea: Transmission, Differential Fertility, and Assortative Mating

Education 2
Room 127
Session Chair: Janne O. Jonsson

Vikki Boliver - Maximally Maintained Inequality and Effectively Maintained Inequality in British Higher Education, 1950 to 1995

Johannes Uhlig, Heike Solga & Jürgen Schrupp - Inequality in Educational Opportunities: Underachievement and the Role of Personality Traits

Sebastian Wenz, Markus Gangl & Claus H. Carstensen - The Life-Course Hypothesis, Delayed Tracking and Educational Opportunity—Examining the Role of Institutional Variation across the German Länder

Carolyn Pian-pian Xu - Inequality of Educational Opportunity in China and Japan

Income and Earnings 2
Room 128
Session Chair: Berkay Özcan

Matthias Pollman-Schult - Marriage and Money: Why do Married Men earn more than Single Men?

Kazuo Seiyama - Why is the Income Inequality among Japanese Elderly so Large? An Examination of the Effect of Job Career

Herman G. van de Werfhorst - Skill and Education Effects on Earnings in 18 Countries: The Role of National Educational Institutions

Gender and Careers
Room 129
Session Chair: Hannah Brückner

Silke Aisenbrey & Daniela Grunow - Hard Economic Times: Harder for Some of Us? Career Penalties for Mothers’ Time Out in Relation to the Economic Cycle and Unemployment in Germany and the U.S.

Sigrun Olafsdottir, Catherine I. Bolzendahl & Jill Walsh - Women-Friendly Societies and Satisfaction: Does Gender Inequality Impact Family and Work Satisfaction in 34 nations?

Hyunjoon Park & Jungsook Kim - Gender Differences in Educational and Occupational Careers in Science and Engineering in South Korea: A Life Course Perspective

Labor Markets 2
Room 127
Session Chair: Markus Gangl

Michael Gebel - Does Temporary Employment Help to Reintegrate the Unemployed? Evidence from British and German Panel Data

Clemens Noelke - Cross-National Variation in Youth Unemployment: Institutional Factors Revisited

Tatyana Kolobov, Benjamin Bental, Yuval Yonay & Vered Kraus - Economic Opportunities and Labor Force Participation of Israeli Palestinian Women

Boundaries and Life Styles
Room 129
Session Chair: Wout Ultee

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund & Yannick Lemel - Life Styles and Social Stratification: France and Norway Compared: An Explorative Study

Carlos Costa-Ribeiro - Educational and Racial Assortative Mating in Brazil (1960-2000)

Philippe Coulangeon - Not All a Matter of Heritage: Cultural Participation and Social Mobility in Contemporary France

Claudia Solari - Unequal Neighborhoods: Trends in Spatial Concentrations of Affluence