Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

This programme page now contains the FINAL schedule of the RC28 Spring Meeting. Please note the room number of the individual panels. Also, the papers in each panel are not listed in any particular order; the order of presentations will be determined by the panel chair at the start of the session. If you have requests for when you want or need to present, please talk to your panel chair.

Thursday, May 24, 5pm-7pm (Atrium)

Registration and welcome reception

Friday, May 25

9:00 - 9:05 (Room P31)

Rob Mare, Meir Yaish, and Petr Mateju

Welcome and preview of the spring meeting

9:05 - 10:45 Plenary Session (Chair: Robert Mare - mare@ucla.edu) (Room P31)

Stein Ringen,

“The Truth About Class Inequality”

Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Muller, and Reinhard Pollack,

“Long term trends in educational inequality in Europe: class inequalities and gender”

Yossi Shavit, Meir Yaish and Eyal-Bar-Haim,

“The Persistence of Persistent Inequality”

11:00 - 12:45 Session 1

Panel 1/1: Educational Attainment and Inequality: Large Comparisons (Chair: Paul de Graaf - pdegraaf@uvt.nl) (Room P31)

Tony Tam,

“A Paradoxical Latent Structure of Educational Inequality: Cognitive Ability and Family Background across Diverse Societies”

Jeroen Smits,

“Effects of factors at the family level, district level and national level on primary school enrolment in 75 developing countries”

Hyunjoon Park and Pearl Kyei,

“The Literacy Gap between Those with High levels and Low Levels of Educational Attainment among Older Adults: A Comparative Study of 20 Countries”

Silke Schneider,

“Measuring Educational Attainment in Cross-National Surveys: The case of the European Social Survey”

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Panel 1/2: Labor Markets (Chair: Irena Kogan - Irena.Kogan@mzes.uni-mannheim.de) (Room P24)

David B. Bills, Su Euk Park, Ryan Wells, and Yi Chen,

“German Credentialism: Hiring, Inflation, and Sheepskins”

Bongoh Kye,

“Internal Labor Markets and the Effects of Structural Change: Job Mobility in Korean Labor Markets in 1998-2000”

Matthew McKeever and Nicholas H. Wolfinger,

“Thanks for Nothing: Changes in Income and Labor Force Participation for Never-Married Mothers since 1982”

Ellen Webbink,

“Demand and supply side determinants of child labor in developing countries”

Panel 1/3: Immigrants and their Socio-economic Conditions (Chair: Beverly Mizrachi - beverlym@netvision.net.il) (Room P22)

Mary E. Campbell and Molly A. Martin,

“Race, Immigration and Homogamy: Patterns Across Cohabitation and Marriage”

Patricia McManus,

“Poverty and Income Security in Immigrant and non-Immigrant Households in the United States, 1999-2005”

Fenella Fleischmann and Jaap Dronkers,

"The Effects of Social and Labour Market Policies of EU-countries on the Socio-Economic Integration of First and Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin"

12:45-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:45 Session 2

Panel 2/1: Methodological Issues and Advances (Chair: John Logan - logan@ssc.wisc.edu) (Room P31)

Robert Hauser and Megan Andrew,

“Occam's Razor? Measurement Error and Functional Form in Characterizing Status Transmission Processes by Race-Ethnic Group in the U.S.”

Glenn Firebaugh,

“Beyond the Consensus Tract: Methods for Studying the Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation”

Ottar Hellevik,

“Marginal insensivity and the analysis of educational inequality”

Johannes Hjellbrekke and Olav Korsnes,

“The Critique Against the Mobility Table. An Empirical Assessment of Variations in Relative Mobility Rates”

Panel 2/2: School to Work I (Chair: Michelle Jackson - michelle.jackson@nuffield.ox.ac.uk) (Room P24)

Simone Zdrojewski, Yvette Grelet and Louis-André Vallet,

“Increasing Employment Instability Among Young People in France? Labour Market Entry and Early Career since the 1990s”

Hiroshi Tarohmaru,

“Inequality of Opportunity for Regular Employments in the Process of Japanese Youth-Labor-Market Transformation”

Joanna Sikora and L.J. Saha,

“Social Inequality as a Determinant of Educational and Occupational Expectations in Comparative Perspective”

David Reimer,

“Objective vs. perceived returns to education: Changing labour market conditions and postsecondary educational decisions in Germany”

Panel 2/3: Race and Ethnicity (Chair: Martin Sánchez-Jankowski - sanjan@berkeley.edu) (Room P22)

Lincoln Quillian and Devah Pager,

“Race and Biases in Perceptions of the Risk of Criminal Victimization”

Carlos Costa-Ribeiro,

“Educational Expansion and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Brazil: "Maximally Maintained Inequality", and the Race/Class Debate”

Moshe Semyonov, Anya Glikman, and Maria Krysan,

“Europeans’ Preference for Ethnic Residential Homogeneity: Cross-National Analysis of Response to Neighborhood Ethnic Composition”

Clemens Kroneberg,

“Ethnic Communities and School Performance among the New Second Generation. Testing the Theory of Segmented Assimilation”

4:00 - 5:45 Session 3

Panel 3/1: Discussion Panel on Stein Ringen’s “The Truth About Class Inequality” (Chair: Yossi Shavit - ys@post.tau.ac.il) (Room P31)

Panel speakers:

Stein Ringen, Ottar Hellevik, Robert Hauser, Michael Hout, John Logan, and Samuel Lucas

Papers:

Michael Hout and Robert Hauser, TBA

John Logan, "Log-Linear Mobility Models as (Thin) Description"

Samuel Lucas, TBA

Panel 3/2: Educational Attainment and Expansion I (Chair: Herman van de Werfhorst - H.g.vandewerfhorst@uva.nl) (Room P24)

Seymour Spilerman and Florencia Torche,

“Intergenerational Influences of Wealth in Mexico”

Chloé Tavan and Valérie Albouy,

“Expansion and Social Selectivity of Higher Education in France”

Wataru Nakazawa,

“Intergenerational Educational Attainment in the Process of Educational Expansion in Japan”

Svitlana Oksamytna and Valeriy Khmelko,

“Intergenerational educational mobility: Soviet and Post-Soviet Patterns in Ukraine”

Panel 3/3: Family, Work, Inequality (Chair: Tomas Katrnak - katrnak@fss.muni.cz) (Room P22)

Jannes de Vries and Matthijs Kalmijn,

“Life-course changes in income: The role of partnership and parenthood transitions”

Ellen Verbakel and Paul De Graaf,

“Spouses' Resources and Adjusting Working Hours in th Netherlands: Differences over Time, over the Family-Cycle and between Levels of Human Capital”

Dana Hamplová,

“Who is chickening out of marriage? Transformation of Czech Families after 1989”

Haya Stier and Avital Sela-Dotan,

“Timing of Childbirth and Employment Consequences: The Israeli Case”

Saturday, May 26

9:00 - 10:45 Session 4

Panel 4/1: Educational Transitions (Chair: Peter Robert - robert@tarki.hu) (Room P31)

Megan Andrew and Cecilia Ceja,

“Path Dependence in Post-Secondary Persistence: A Multi-State Model of Education Transition in the U.S., 1982-2000”

Anders Holm,

“The effects of social background on educational progression: the importance of unobserved heterogeneity”

Rianne Kloosterman, Paul de Graaf, Stijn Ruiter and Gerbert Kraaykamp,

"Parental education and the transition to higher secondary education. A comparison of primary and secondary effects (for five cohorts of Dutch pupils, 1965-1999)"

Maarten Buis,

“Not all transitions are equal: The effect of educational expansion and the decreased disadvantaged position of women in education on educational inequality in the Netherlands between 1906 and 1990”

Panel 4/2: Class Inequality and Mobility (Chair: Stein Ringen - stein.ringen@green.ox.ac.uk) (Room P24)

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Durbow

“Radical Change in Social Class Structure and Inter-Class Mobility: Analyzing Tables with Different Origin and Destination Categories”

Jing Yang,

"Social Mobility in Modern China"
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Hiroshi Ishida and Satoshi Miwa,

“Trends in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Japan in the late 20th Century”

Miquel Pellicer-Gallardo,

“Inequality Persistence through Vertical vs. Horizontal Coalitions”

Panel 4/3: Social Capital and Civic Participation (Chair: H.B.G. Ganzeboom - HBG.Ganzeboom@fsw.vu.nl) (Room P22)

Ly-yun Chang,

“Does social capital really enhance academic success? Evidence from the Taiwan Education Panel Surveys, 2001 and 2003”

Stijn Ruiter and Nan Dirk de Graaf,

“Socioeconomic Payoffs of Voluntary Association Involvement: A Dutch Life Course Study”

Arnošt Veselý,

“Intergenerational transmission of social capital: A first look into PISA-L dataset”

11:00 - 12:45 Session 5

Panel 5/1: Educational Inequality: National Perspectives (Chair: David Post - post@pop.psu.edu) (Room P31)

Cinzia Meraviglia and Harry B.G. Ganzeboom,

“Long Term Trends in Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Italy: Birth Cohorts 1899-1980”

Petr Matějů and Michael Smith,

“The Perceived Value of Education and Educational Aspirations in the Czech Republic: Changes in the Determination of Aspirations between 1989 and 2003"

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Alfred A. Essuman and Kristen Ringdal,

“A multilevel analysis of rural-urban inequalities in basic education in Ghana”

Jorge A. Neves, Danielle C. Fernandes, Flávia P. Xavier, and Maria C. Tomás,

“Social Policies, Family Resources, and the Educational Attainment of Brazilian
Children and Youth”

Panel 5/2: Social mobility and Status (Chair: Patricia McManus - pmcmanus@indiana.edu) (Room P24)

Florencia Torche and Carlos Costa-Ribeiro,

“Educational Expansion and Decline in the 'Mobility Returns' of Higher Education: The Case of Brazil and Mexico”

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Tak Wing Chan, and Arne Kristian Aas,

“Social Status in Norway”

Cameron Campbell, and Jamez Z. Lee,

“Was There a Revolution? Kinship and Inequality over the Very Long Term in Liaonin, China, 1749-2005”

Marii Paškov,

“The Process of Social Transformation: Perceived Social Inequality in Estonia”

Panel 5/3: Housing, Work and Poverty (Chair: Shu-Ling Tsai - tsai@gate.sinica.edu.tw) (Room P22)

Claudia D. Solari and Robert D. Mare,

“Housing Crowding Effects on Children´s Wellbeing? National and Longitudinal Comparisons”

Olaf Groh-Samberg and Carsten Keller,

“Social Exclusion and Social Class - How Class Structures are Shaped by Rising Poverty in West and East Germany after Reunification”

Alisa C. Lewin and Dafna Caspi-Dror,

“The Effects of Intermittent Work Histories on Poverty: The Case of Working Poor in Israel”

“Who the the Poor in Europe? Exploring Cross-national Differences in the Determinants of Income Poverty and Material Deprivation”

Poster presentation at end of panel:

“Factors associated with the poverty risk of workers in Spain”

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:45 Session 6

Panel 6/1: Educational Attainment and Expansion II (Chair: Samuel Lucas - lucas@demog.berkeley.edu) (Room P31)

Xiaogang Wu,

“Economic Transition, Educational Expansion, and Educational Inequality in China, 1990-2000”

Daniel A. Long,

“Private Schools, School Autonomy, and Inequalities in Academic Achievement in Latin America”

Ruey-Ming Tsay and Hsiu-Jen Jennifer Yeh,

"The Divergent Path of Educational Reform and Educational Attainment in Taiwan"

Sigal Alon,

"Losing Ground: Temporal Changes in Class Inequality by College Destinations in the United States"

Panel 6/2: Earnings Inequality (Chair: Wout Ultee - w.ultee@maw.ru.nl) (Room P24)

Ted Gerber,

“Earnings Inequality in Russia, 1991-2004: Temporal and Regional Variations”

Johannes Giesecke and Roland Verwiebe,

“Winners and Losers of the Income Dynamics in Germany between 1998 and 2005”

Kim A. Weeden and David B. Grusky,

“Class-Biased Institutional Change and Rising Wage Inequality”

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Arne Mastekaasa,

“Dual Earner Couples and Income Inequality: Norway 1975-2004”

Panel 6/3: How Class Matters (Chair: Louis-Andre Vallet - vallet@ensae.fr) (Room P22)

Michael Hout,

"The Class Divide Within American Protestantism"

Albert Simkus,

“The Effects of Social Class on Attitudes Towards Ethnic Tolerance and Cooperation in the Western Balkan Successor states of Former Yugoslavia”

Miguel Caínzos, Monica Ferrin, and Carmen Voces,

"Class inequalities in political participation: Spain and Europe"

Teuta Starova, Kristen Ringdal, and Albert Simkus,

"Social Dimensions in Party Choice in Albania"

4:00 - 5:45 Session 7

Panel 7/1: Labor Market Returns to Education (Chair: Karl Ulrich Mayer - karl.mayer@yale.edu) (Room P31)

Shu-Ling Tsai and Yu Xie,

“Returns to College Education Reexamined: Individual Treatment Effects, Selection Bias, and Sorting Gain”

Sin Yi Cheung and Ted Gerber,

“Labor market returns to post-secondary education in Hong Kong, 1981-2001: variations by field and place of study”

Herman van de Werfhorst, and Carlo Barone,

“Education, Cognitive Skills and Earnings in Comparative Perspective”

Robert Andersen and Herman Van de Werfhorst,

“Education and quality of work in comparative perspective”

Panel 7/2: Educational Systems and Stratification (Chair: Meir Yaish - myaish@univ.haifa.ac.il) (Room P24)

Marita Jacob and Nicole Tieben,

“Track-mobility in secondary schools: A comparison of intra-secondary transitions in Germany and the Netherlands”

David Post,

“Postsecondary Educational Opportunity and Civil Society in Hong Kong: In Search of the Missing Link”

Anna Zimdars,

“Education, education, education and the British elite university: Towards a new framework of understanding social reproduction at the university gate”

Jana Straková,

“Impact of selectivity of the Czech education system on the formation of citizenship attitudes of Czech apprentices”

Panel 7/3: Gender Inequality (Chair: Dana Hamplova - dana.hamplova@mcgill.ca) (Room P22)

Heather Hofmeister and Hans-Peter Blossfeld,

“Are women in Eastern Europe and Western Europe experiencing dramatically different effects of globalization? Evidence from a 13-country comparison”

Karin Halldén,

“Is It More Difficult For Women To Reach High Labour Market Positions In Countries With Gender Egalitarian State Politics?”

Javier G. Polavieja,

“Explaining the Effect of Occupational Sex-Composition on Earnings: Evidence from the European Social Survey”

Rinat Arviv-Elyashiv and Hanna Ayalon,

“New Opportunities for Studying Technology? The Effect of the Expansion of Higher Education on the Gender Gap in Technology”

Saturday evening Wine tasting and conference dinner

Sunday May 27

9:00-10:45 Session 8

Panel 8/1: Culture and Lifestyles (Chair: Mike Hout - mikehout@berkeley.edu) (Room P24)

Harry Ganzeboom and Ineke Nagel,

“Cultural Participation among Ethnic Minority and Native Majority Adolescents and their Parents in the Netherlands”

David Grusky and Ivalyo D. Petev,

“How Many Lifestyles Are There?”

Phillipe Coulangeon and Yannick Lemel,

“The stratification of Life-styles in France. Global omnivouresness and taste eclecticism in different domains”

Ivalyo D. Petev,

“Social Class, Again: Trends in Consumer Expenditures, 1960-2002”

Panel 8/2: Occupational Pathways (Chair: Samuel Lucas - lucas@demog.berkeley.edu) (Room P31)

Daniela Grunow, Karl Ulrich Mayer, and Alexei Zelenev,

“How stable are working lives? Occupational stability in West Germany 1945-2005”

Anna Manzoni and Ruud Luijkx,

“Employment mobility patterns and its determinants in Germany: Comparing the reliability of prospective and long-term retrospective data”

Paul de Graaf, Ruud Luijkx, and Wout C. Ultee,

“Retirement in the Netherlands between 1980 and 2000: the role of work history”

Daniele Zaccaria,

“Understanding pathways to retirement in Europe”

Panel 8/3: Health in Stratification Research (Chair: Hiroshi Ishida - ishida@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp) (Room P22)

Yao Lu and Donald. J. Treiman,

“Socioeconomic Differences in Health in China”

Amélie Quesnell-Vallée, Suzanne DeHanney and Antonio Ciampi

“Contingent work and depressive symptoms:Contribution of health selection and moderating effects of employment status”

Martín Sánchez-Jankovski and Corey Abramson,

“Racial Differences in Patters of Health Care Use Among the Elderly Poor”

Martin Kreidl,

“Did the socioeconomic variation in the risk of low birth weight increase during post-socialism: Evidence from the Czech Republic, 1992-2002”

11:00-12:45 Session 9

Panel 9/1: The Role of Parents (Chair: Alison Smith - alison.j.smith@ed.ac.uk) (Room P24)

Volker Stocké,

“The Motive for Status Maintenance and Educational Decisions: Which of the Parents Defines the Reference Point?”

Kadri Täht,

“Parent´s work schedules and children’s educational achievement”

Anna Garriga,

“How does parental divorce affect children's educational outcomes?”

Gabriele Ballarino and Hans Schadee,

“Ordinal regression for analysing inequalities in educational opportunities: the impact of parents’ class and cultural capital on educational attainment in Italy”

Panel 9/2: From School to Work II (Chair: Xiaogang Wu - sowu@ust.hk) (Room P31)

Irena Kogan,

“Transition from School to Work in Serbia”

Zsuzsa Blaskó and Péter Róbert,

“Graduates in the Labour Market: Does Socioeconomic Background have an impact? The Case of Hungary”

Kristina Lindemann,

“Transition from school to work in Estonia: Estonian and non-Estonian school leavers' opportunities in the labour market”

"Is Europe Going Flexy? Context- and Individual-level Determinants of Work Mobility in the EU (1995-2005)"

Panel 9/3: Entrepreneurship and Life Success (Chair: Donald Treiman - treiman@ucla.edu) (Room P22)

Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong,

“Contemporary Changes of Chinese Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong”

Chih-jou Jay Chen and Ying-Hwa Chang,

“Self-Employment in Eastern China and Taiwan”

Kasia Karpinska, Ineke Maas and Wim Jansen,

“Self-employment in structural change: A cross country comparison of post communist economies”

Marie Plessz,

“Age and Transformations of the Labour Market: the Case of Central Europe (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary)”

12:45-1:30 Lunch

1:30pm - 3:30pm Young Scholars Panel (Chair: Petr Mateju - petr.mateju@soc.cas.cz) (Room P22)

Tomáš Katrňák,

"Does age homogamy influence educational homogamy? The case of the Czech Republic, 1994-2004"

Natalie Simonova and Petr Soukup,

“The Determinants of Educational Inequalities Reproduction in the Czech Republic after 1989”

Karin Kurz and Wiebke Paulus,
“Parents´ educational aspirations: How do they develop and what determines them?”

Josef Basl,
“Computer literacy in the context of social exclusion and digital divide: Czech Republic in an international perspective”

Margarita Kazjulja and Triin Roosalu,
“Who was successful at finding good job at Estonian labour market: comparison of pre- and post-transformation society”

Iva Šmídová and K. Janoušková,
“Factors conditioning educational aspirations and educational segregation for girls and boys in the Czech educational system”

Daniela Rohrbach,
“Income Inequality Trends of Knowledge Societies: Evidence from 19 OECD Countries, 1970-2002”