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RC28: Work, Poverty & Inequality in the 21st Century
Stanford University, August 6 - 9, 2008
PROGRAM [pdf]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6
04:30
Bus between hotels and the
Oval at Serra Mall starts running
05:00 - 07:00 Registration and Welcome Reception
(Stanford Center for the Study of
Poverty and Inequality,
Building 80,
Stanford University)
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7
07:15
Buses from hotels to Alumni Center
start running
08:00 - 09:00 Late Registration and Breakfast
(Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center,
326 Galvez Street,
Stanford University)
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09:00 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
Why is Income Inequality Taking off? New Accounts
Presider: David B. Grusky
Educational Assortative Marriage and Earnings Inequality in the United States
Richard Breen & Leire Salazar
Compensation Benchmarking and the Surge in Executive Pay
Thomas A. DiPrete, Gregory Eirich, & Matthew Pittinsky
The Rise of Class-Based Wage Inequality
Johannes Giesecke & Roland Verwiebe
Does Income Inequality Cause Income Segregation?
Sean Reardon & Kendra Bischoff
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
11:00 - 12:30 LATE MORNING SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Educational Assortative Mating
Presider: Jan O. Jonsson
Educational Assortative Mating in Multiple Generations
Robert D. Mare
Educational and Racial Assortative Mating in Brazil (1960-2000)
Carlos Costa-Ribeiro & Nelson do Valle Silva
The Intergenerational Ties between Schooling and Smoking
Vida Maralani
Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China from 1970 to 2000
Hongyun Han
Life Course and Cumulative Disadvantage
Presider: Thomas DiPrete
The Long-Term Impact of Unemployment: Structural Change, Institutional Resources, and Cumulative Disadvantage
Markus Gangl
Does Unemployment Impact Future Employment? The Cumulative Disadvantages of Unemployment on Post-Unemployment Careers and Wages
Irma Mooi-Reci
History and the Life Course: War, Disability, and Work
Alair MacLean
Increasing Inequality as Diffusion Process
Hanno Scholtz
Consequences of Rising Inequality
Presider: Michael Hout
Why Conventional Accounts of the Rise in Inequality are Wrong and Why We Should Wish They Were Right
Kim Weeden & David B. Grusky
The "Moral Economy" of Social Inequality: A Study of Popular Views about Poverty and Wealth
Patrick Sachweh
Social Cohesion in Europe: How the Different Dimensions of Inequality Affect Social Cohesion
Loris Vergolini
The Upscaling and Downscaling of Security: Emotion Management in Insecure Times
Marianne Cooper
12:30 - 02:00 Catered Lunch
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
02:00 - 03:30 EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
New Approaches to Assessing Returns to Education
Presider: Maarten Buis
Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education
Jennie E. Brand & Yu Xie
College Selectivity and Student Outcomes: An Investigation of the University of California's Guaranteed Transfer Option
Michal Kurlaender & Eric Grodsky
Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies: A Comparison of the United States and the Netherlands
Herman G. Van de Werfhorst
So Far so Good? Early School Leaving and Social Stratification in Italy
Gabriele Ballarino, Ivano Bison, & Hans Schadee
Is the Social Gradient Strong? More Evidence on the Health-Inequality Association
Presider: Haya Stier
Subjective Health and Income Since 1972
Michael Hout & Scott M. Lynch
Socioeconomic Status and Distress: Comparative Analysis in Japan and Korea
Junko Nishimura
Are Class Effects on Health Even Stronger than Typically Supposed?
Yujia Liu
Who's Counting Sheep? Occupational Stratification and Sleep in the United States
Sarah Burgard & Jennifer Ailshire
Sociological Models of the Rise in Inequality
Presider: Markus Gangl
High-Wage Earnings Growth and Rising Inequality in the United States
Caroline Hanley
Static and Dynamic Decompositions of Income Inequality in Brazil
Jeronimo Oliveira Muniz
Welfare Regime Changes, Intra and Inter Cohort Inequalities, and the Dynamics of Social Generations
Louis Chauvel
Public Services and their Impact on the Distribution of Income
Maria Vaalavuo
03:30 - 04:00 Coffee Break
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
04:00 - 05:30 LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
The New Economy, Temporary Employment, and Permanent Employment
Presider: Robert D. Mare
Voluntary and Involuntary Job Instability in Germany: Analyzing Perceptions of Past and Future Employment Trajectories
Natalie Nitsche & Karl Ulrich Mayer
Rational Choice of Career Aspirations under Structural Constraints: Comparison of Career Aspirations in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
Yoshimichi Sato
Occupational Instability in the New Economy
Matissa Hollister
Early Career Consequences of Temporary Employment: Evidence from British and German Panel Data
Michael Gebel
New Methods for Analyzing Schooling and Job Matching
Presider: Samuel R. Lucas
Are There Many Inequalities of Educational Outcome or Just One?
Maarten L. Buis
Progress in the Cross-National Measurement of Educational Attainment: Applying the ISCED-97 in European Countries
Silke L. Schneider
Structuralism and the Matching of People and Jobs: A Two-Sided Queuing Model
Pablo Mitnik
The Emergence of the Working Poor
Presider: Louis Chauvel
Welfare States, Labour Market Institutions and the Working Poor
Henning Lohmann
The Transformation of the Dutch Welfare State and the Rise of In-Work Poverty
Erik Snel
Working Poor in Spain
Isabel Garcia-Espejo, Rodolfo Gutierrez, & Marta Ibanez
In-Work Poverty in a Transitional Labour Market: Sweden 1982-2003
Björn Halleröd & Daniel Larsson
Poster Session: Education and Inequality
Distinguished Achievers with Disadvantaged Attributes
Moosung Lee
Schooling and Social Inequalities in Peru at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Rosario Collatón Chicana
The Hukou System and Educational Inequality in Contemporary China
Yulan Xia
05:45
Buses from Alumni Center to
hotels and downtown Palo Alto
start running
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8
07:15
Buses from hotels to Alumni Center
start running
08:00 - 09:00 Late Registration and Breakfast
(Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center,
326 Galves Street,
Stanford University)
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09:00 - 10:30 EARLY MORNING SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Residential Segregation, Poverty, and Inequality
Presider: Michael J. Rosenfeld
Racial Segregation and Impoverished Neighborhood Environments: A Demographic Mixing Model
Lincoln Quillian
The Color of Money: Race and Neighborhood Income Segregation
Sean Reardon & Kendra Bischoff
Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects and the Blocked Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor
Corina Graif
Space and Class Segregation in Two Brazilian Metropolises
Celi Scalon & Eduardo Marques
Class, Culture, and Lifestyle
Presider: Donald J. Treiman
Social Class, Parenting Style, and Youth Outcomes in the United Kingdom
Tak Wing Chan & Anita Koo
Social Mobility, Educational Attainment, and Lifestyles: Evidence from French Student Consumption Patterns and Cultural Practices
Philippe Coulangeon
Imagining the Economic Habitus: Mothers' Economic Habitus, Social Class, and Schools
Mary O'Donoghue
Downward Social Mobility and Fertility Behavior in Russia
Sunnee Billingsley
Immigration, Assimilation, and Identity
Presider: Aziza Khazzoom
Immigration and Ethnic Boundary-Crossing in Britain: A Multi-Generational Approach
Christel Kesler & Luisa Farah Schwartzman
Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation and the Local Context of Reception
Asaf Levanon
Immigrants' Life Satisfaction in Europe: Between Assimilation and Discrimination
Mirna Safi
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
11:00 - 12:30 LATE MORNING SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Ethnicity and Education
Presider: Richard Breen
Ethnic Minorities' Education in Sweden: Advantages and Disadvantages
Jan O. Jonsson & Frida Rudolphi
The Relative Importance of Primary and Secondary Effects in Creating Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Attainment
Michelle Jackson
The Role of Education in Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Occupational Attainment: Trends in the Contemporary United States.
Beth Mintz & Daniel H. Krymkowski
Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility of Education -- Immigrant Mothers and Their Daughters in Sweden
Susan Niknami
Social Mobility Throughout the World
Presider: Meir Yaish
New Occupational Status Measures for ISCO 2008
Harry B.G. Ganzeboom & Donald J. Treiman
Earnings Mobility in Israel: 1983-1995
Yitchak Haberfeld & Yinon Cohen
Social Stratification and Mobility in Mexico: Recent Trends and Research Challenges
Patricio Solis
The Social Construction of Health
Presider: Lincoln Quillian
Causation or Selection? The Relationship between Social Role Configurations and Health
Claudia Koenig, Sean Clouston, & Amelie Quesnel-Vallee
Socioeconomic Background and Mental Health among University Students in the United Kingdom
Karen Robson & Annik Sorhaindo
Moving Beyond Income: Inequality, Neighborhood, Household Behavior, and Children's Health in the United States
Tauhidur Rahman & Satheesh Aradhyula
The Role of Education and Social Trust for Subjective Health in West-Europe
Rania Valeeva
12:30 - 02:00 Catered Lunch
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
12:30 - 02:00 RC28 Board Meeting
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
02:00 - 03:30 EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Family and Inequality
Presider: Mark Western
The Gendered Double Standard of Aging in Marriage Markets
Paula England & Elizabeth McClintock
Perceived Equity in the Gendered Division of Household Labor
Michael Braun, Miriam K. Baumgartner, Noah Lewin Epstein, & Haya Stier
Inequality in Old Age: A Comparison of Social Support Networks of Parents and the Childless in Germany
Sebastian Schnettler
The New Unemployment
Presider: Karl Ulrich Mayer
Technological Change, Educational Expansion, and the Changing Distribution of Youth Unemployment Risks
Clemens Noelke
The Effect Of Unemployment Benefit II Sanctions On Reservation Wages
Julia Schneider
Job Change Reasons and Job Mobility in Japan and Taiwan
Hiroshi Kanbayashi
How and Why Does Inequality Matter? Trends and Mechanisms
Presider: Yoshimichi Sato
De-Structuration of Social Stratification in Europe
Christof Wolf
Effects of Intragenerational Income Mobility on Poverty and Inequality in Brazil between 1980 and 2000
Jeronimo Oliveira Muniz
Disruption in Class Reproduction: Turning Points, Familial Advantages, and Systemic Change
Chen Hee Tam
The Determining Factors of Home Ownership Inequalities in France and in the United Kingdom
Fanny Bugeja
Poster Session: Family, Gender and Inequality
Bad Jobs in America: The Effect of Maternal Work Conditions on Child Development
Christina Felfe & Amy Hsin
Gender-Based Double Standards in the Evaluation of Job Applicants in a Natural Setting
Esther Quintero
03:30 - 06:30 Excursion
(Begins in Alumni Center Lobby)
06:30 - 09:30 Conference Dinner
(Cantor Center for Visual Arts:
Rodin Sculpture Garden,
Lomita Drive and Roth Way,
Stanford University)
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09:15
Buses from Rodin Sculpture Garden
to hotels start running
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9
07:15
Buses from hotels to Alumni Center
start running
08:00 - 09:00 Late Registration and Breakfast
(Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center,
326 Galvez Street,
Stanford University)
[map]
09:00 - 10:30 EARLY MORNING SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Is the Class-Education Association Strengthening or Weakening?
Presider: Irena Kogan
Inequality in Educational Attainment in India -- A Birth-Cohort Approach
Divya Vaid & Richard Breen
The Relation of Educational Expansion and Social Selectivities in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Germany
Steffen Schindler & Markus Loerz
Changing Sources of Educational Stratification and the Role of the State: Hong Kong 1971 - 2006
David Post
Gender and Work
Presider: Paula England
Similar or Different? Women's and Men's Aspirations in Law School
Manwai C. Ku
Housework Hours, Work Satisfaction and Career Opportunities among Parliamentarians in the "Ideal" Case of Sweden
Jenny Hansson
Returning to Work -- Mothers' Willingness to Pay for Amenities
Christina Felfe
Feminization of Poverty in Korea
Anna Kim
Social Consequences of Racial Inequality and Immigration
Presider: Carlos Costa Ribeiro
Pre- to post migration occupational mobility of immigrants to Sweden, 1968-1990
Jonas Helgertz
The Economic Incorporation of Brazilian Migrants in Comparative Perspective
Hirohisa Takenoshita
Social Exclusion in Sweden during 1979-2003
Miia Bask
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
11:00 - 12:30 LATE MORNING SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Race, Ethnicity, and Prejudice
Presider: C. Matthew Snipp
Does Social Status Shape Race? The Effect of Changes in Social Position on Racial Classification and Identification
Aliya Saperstein & Andrew Penner
Prejudice Patterns in the United States
Samuel R. Lucas
Cultural Capital and the Cultural Bases of Ethnic Exclusion
Aziza Khazzoom
Race and the Social Psychology of University Admissions Criteria
Frank Samson
How Do Class Origins Matter? Mechanisms and Processes
Presider: Herman G. Van de Werfhorst
Is Biology Destiny? A Sociobiological Explanation for Divergent Destinies
Amy Hsin
Mother's and Father's Influence on Occupational Attainment of Men and Women
Cinzia Meraviglia & Harry B.G. Ganzeboom
Shaky Footholds: The Effects of Social Origins on Employment Stability
Rachel Best
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and the Life Cycle Effects of Parental Income
Jani Erola
The Family Context and Schooling Outcomes
Presider: Nancy B. Tuma
The Next Step: The Role of Family Gender and Family Background in Educational Transitions in Mexico
Mathew Creighton & Hyunjoon Park
Put Some Soul Into It: Parental Religiosity and its Consequences for Children's Educational Success in the United States Today
Gregory M. Eirich
Poster Session: Inequality Measurement
Silences in the Debate about Global Inequality
Ben Crow
How Changes in Unemployment Insurance Benefits Impact Re-Employment Wages: Longitudinal Evidence from the Netherlands
Irma Mooi-Reci
12:30 - 02:00 Catered Lunch
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
02:00 - 03:30 EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Labor Force Participation and the "Gender Revolution"
Presider: Shu-Ling Tsai
Labor Force Participation of Muslim Israeli-Palestinian Women: Personal and Locality Determinants
Vered Kraus, Meir Yaish, & Yuval Yonay
Employment Transitions of Australian Women
Michele Haynes, Mark Western, Laurel Yu, & Melanie Spellak
How do Women's Potential Earnings, their Partner's Earnings, and the Presence of Children Interact to Promote or Inhibit Leaving the Labor Force?
Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer
Gender Gap in Education, Labor Force Participation, and Earnings in Urban China, 1990-2005
Xiaogang Wu
Social Origins and Schooling
Presider: Michelle Jackson
The Impact of Social Origin on Discontinuities in Higher Education in the United States and Germany
Felix Weiss & Marita Jacob
Socioeconomic Status, Attitudes, and Test Scores -- An International Comparison Using PISA 2003 Data
Hirofumi Taki
Family Resources and Transition to Labor Force: The Case of Brazilian Metropolitan Areas
Maria Carolina Tomas
What Makes the Transition to Work So Problematic?
Presider: Harry B.G. Ganzeboom
Educational Attainment and Transition from School to Work in the Ukraine
Irena Kogan & Michael Gebel
Institutional Effects of Apprenticeship Training on Employment Success in Germany
Hans Dietrich
New and Niche Jobs in German Graduate Labour Markets
Andrea Kottmann
03:30 - 04:00 Coffee Break
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
04:00 - 05:30 LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
(Alumni Center)
Gender Gaps: Size, Sources, and Consequences
Presider: Daniel H. Krymkowski
Gender, Class, and Access to Higher Education: Taiwan and Japan
Shu-Ling Tsai & Nobuo Kanomata
Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap: True Difference or Reporting Bias?
Erin Ruel
Gender and Intermarriage among Japanese Americans
Hiromi Ono
Why is Health Correlated with Class? The Mechanisms Behind the Gradient
Presider: Tak Wing Chan
Do Health Literacy Skills Explain Health Inequalities by Education and Race?
Hyunjoon Park & Mathew Creighton
Liberal Welfare State Policies and Health: The Effect of State EITCs on Birth Weight
Kate Strully, David Rehkopf, & Ziming Xuan
The Social Class Gradient in Educational Attainment: The Roles of Health Conditions in Utero and Early Childhood and Early Developmental Performance in the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort
Juho Harkonen & Anja Taanila
The Varieties of Training: From Cram Schools to Vocational Training
Presider: Alair Maclean
The Effect of Cram Schooling on Math: A Counterfactual Analysis
Ping-Yin Kuan
Vocational Education in Brazil: Individual Chances and Choices
Flavia Pereira Xavier, Gabriela Moraes, Danielle Cireno Fernandes, & Jorge Alexandre Neves
Why do School Resources Have a Greater Influence on Academic Achievement in Poorer Countries than in Richer Countries?
Daniel A. Long
Dividing Lines: Examining Between-School Differentiation in Irish Lower Secondary School Education
Allison Dunne
05:30 - 06:30 Wine and Cheese Reception
(Alumni Center: McCaw Hall)
05:45
Buses from Alumni Center to
hotels and downtown Palo Alto
start running
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