2021

2021-06-08
Merlin Schaeffer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)    
The Integration Paradox: First Results from a Meta-Analysis and Proposal of a New Experimental Research Design

2021-05-25
Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University, Italy)
Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties and Populism in Europe.

2021-05-11
Line Rennwald (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Persistent class gaps in perceptions of political voice: Liberal democracies 1974-2016.

2021-04-27
Katherin Barg (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Social stratification in parenting: some reasons and some consequences.

2021-04-13
Sigrun Olafsdottir (University of Iceland)
Worrying about COVID-19: The Role of Daily Contexts on Public Perceptions in Iceland.

2021-03-30
Ben Wilson (Stockholm University)
The Fertility of Child Migrants Later in Life: Understanding the Role of Age at Arrival for Women and Men.

2021-03-16
Erik Bengtsson (Lund University, Sweden)
The most equal country in the world?

2021-02-16
Amber Beckley (Stockholm University)
Foreign background and crime in Sweden: Past research and new directions.

2021-02-02
Kåre Vernby (Stockholm University)
The Ex-Factor: Examining the Gendered Effect of Divorce on Voter Turnout

2020

2020-12-15
Renske Keizer (Erasmus University, Netherlands)
Fathers’ role in the intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantages

2020-12-01
Kirsten Van Houdt (SOFI)
Adult Stepfamilies in The Netherlands

2020-11-17
Noam Gidron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Who Dislikes Whom? The Drivers of Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies

2020-10-20
Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy

2020-10-06
Jan Teorell (Lund University, Sweden)
134 Days: Explaining Bargaining Duration in the Case of Sweden, 2018-2019

2020-09-22
Moa Bursell (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm)
Is it possible to reduce individual implicit bias in organizational settings? A study of social assistance officers

2020-09-08
Andreas Diemer (SOFI)
Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom

 

2019

2019-01-08
Thomas Kurer (Harvard University, United States)    
The Declining Middle: Political Reactions to Occupational Change    

2019-01-22
Anna Malmquist (Linköping University)        
Swedish gay men's pursuit of fatherhood: Legal obstacles and strategies for coping with them.

2019-02-05
Juta Kawalerowicz (Linköping University)        
Anarchy in the UK: the role of deprivation, community relations and gentrification in London riot 2011

2019-02-19
Philipp Lersch (Humboldt University, Germany)    
Changes in Intracohort Inequality in Occupational Prestige in the 20th Century? Evidence from Germany    

2019-03-05
Jayeon Lindelle (Lund University)    
Silent institutionalization of complementary benefits for the unemployed in Sweden

2019-03-19    
Are Skeie Hermansen (University of Oslo, Norway)        
Towards Spatial Assimilation? Intergenerational Contextual Mobility in Norwegian Immigrant Minorities

2019-04-02
Ellen Kossek (Purdue University, United States)        
Caring for the Elderly at Work and Home: Can a Randomized Organizational Intervention Improve Psychological Health?

2019-05-14    
Andre Grow (Max Plank Institute of Demographic Research, Germany)    
Gender, Resources, and Status: An Empirically Grounded Model of Status Construction Theory    

2019-05-28    
Olli Kangas (Kela, Social Insurance Institution, Finland)    
Political Feasibility of Basic Income in Finland: Lessons Learned from the Basic Income Experiment

2019-06-11
Claudia Finger (WZB, Germany)    
Social inequality in access to prestigious fields of study: The interplay of students’ application behavior and universities’ selection procedures 

2019-09-02    
Lee Badgett (University of Massachussetts Amherst, United States)
Joint seminar with AME
“The Impact of a Ban on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination on Federal Contractors”    

2019-09-24    
David Rueda (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)        
Income, Risk and Voting: Demand for Redistribution and Left Parties in Industrialized Democracies

2019-10-08    
Liza Reisel (Norwegian Institute of Social Research, Norway)        
The death of the welfare state paradox? New evidence of a gender equality hurdle

2019-10-22
Carsten Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Government Responsiveness to Voters’ Economic Vulnerabilities: Evidence from 18 European Democracies    

2019-11-05    
Tina Kretschmer    (Groningen University, Netherlands)
A lifespan, cross-context perspective on peer relationships

2019-11-19    
Mirjam Fisher (German Institute for Economic Research, Germany)        
Survey approaches to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans persons and households: Recent examples from the Netherlands and Germany

2019-12-03    
Lonnie Berger (University of Wisconsin Madison)    
The Impact of Center-Based Childcare Attendance on Early Child Development: Evidence from the French ELFE Cohort
    
2019-12-17    
Katja Möhring (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Couples’ Life Courses and Old Age Income in Europe        
 

 

2018

2018-01-23
Julian Garritzmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
The Political Economy of Higher Education Tuition Fees and Subsidies

2018-02-06
Jani Erola (university of Turku, Finland)
Compensaion in intergenerational attainment: mechanisms and main findings

2018-02-20
Chiara Comolli (Stockholm University)
Intergenerational mobility during the Great Recession: the impact on the transition to motherhood for American women
 

2018-03-06
Jonas Pontusson (University of Geneva, Switerlzand)
Paper Stones Revisited: Class Voting, Unionization and the Electoral Decline of the Mainstream Left

2018-04-03
Walter Korpi (Stockholm University)
Partisan Politics, Distributional Conflict and Market-economic Institutions in the Long Waves of Western Unemployment, 1920-2015 from Great Depression through Full Employment to European Federalization

 

2018-04-17
Thomas Lorentzen and Kristoffer Vogt (University of Bergen, Norway)
Life course patterns among early school leavers
 

2018-05-24
Arne Kalleberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Precarious lives: job insecurity and well-being in rich democracies

 

2018-06-12
Michael Grätz (Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK)
Reinforcing at the top or compensating at the bottom? Family background and academic performance in Germany, Norway, and the United States

2018-09-04
Pieter Vanhuysee (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Pro-elderly welfare states within a child-oriented europe: Evidence and implications

2018-09-18 
Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics, UK)
With age comes...? Gendered pathways into late parenthood in Norway

2018-10-01 
Torsten Persson and Jens Rydgren (Stockholm University)
The growth of the Sweden Democrats

2018-10-02
Jane Gingrich (Oxford University, UK)    
Schools and Economic Attitudes

2018-10-16    
Karen Haandrikman (Stockholm University)   Ethnic and socio-economic segregation levels across Europe using individualized scalable neighbourhoods

2018-10-30    
Jennifer Hook ( University of Southern California, USA)    
A Stalled Revolution for Whom? Decomposing Change in Women’s Labor Force Participation in 13 Countries, 1988-2015

2018-11-13    
Lyndsay Flynn (Wheaton College, USA)   Inequality and its Discontents: Housing Politics, Young People, and the Making of a Lost Generation

2018-11-27    
Silja Häusermann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)    
Rethinking welfare reform as the politics of priorities: conceptualization and measurement

2018-12-11    
Ridhi Kashyap (Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK)    
Measuring global gender inequality indicators using large-scale online advertising data

2018-12-17    
Vanessa Barker (Stockholm University)    
Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State
 

2017

2017-01-17
Hannah Zagel (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Family policy and single mothers’ economic disadvantage

2017-01-31
Signe H. Andersen (Rockwool Foundation)
Paternity leave and the motherhood penalty: new causal evidence

2017-02-14
Klarita Gërxhani ( European University Institute)
Status Ranking: A Hidden Channel to Gender Inequality under Competition

2017-03-14
Anders Lindbom (Uppsala universitet)
What Explains the Legitimacy of the Swedish Welfare State? Going Beyond the Paradox of Redistribution

2017-03-28
Christian Steglich (Linköping University, University of Groningen) 
Social ties and the academic self. A multilevel network study.

2017-04-11
Ariana Need (University of Twente)
The Influence of Prosocial Norms and Network Structure on Prosocial Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis of Movember’s Fundraising Campaign in 24 countries

2017-04-25
Jonathan Latner (BGGSS)
Economic insecurity and the distribution of income volatility in the United States

2017-05-09
Lynn Prince Cooke (University of Bath)
The North American Net Fatherhood Wage Premium: Variation over Time and across Workplaces

2017-05-23
Kristian Karlsson (UCPH)
Incomplete Convergence? Black-White Trends in Intergenerational Educational Mobility

2017-06-20
Emma Fransson (CHESS)
Child outcomes in shared residence, presentation of Swedish studies

2017-09-18
Herwig Immervoll (OECD)
Basic Income as a policy option: Can it add up?

2017-10-03
David Kirk (University of Oxford)
A Randomised Controlled Trial of Residential Change and Criminal Recidivism

2017-10-17
Cassandra Engeman (SOFI)
When Do Unions Matter to Social Policy? Organized labor and leave legislation in U.S. states, 1983-2016

2017-10-31
Britt Østergaard Larsen (Aalborg University)
Building Human or Criminal Capital? Classmate Peer Effects on Future Offending

2017-11-04
Peter Dinsen (University of Copenhagen)
Working together? Ethnic diversity in the workplace and social trust

2017-11-28
Ineke Maas (University Utrecht/University of Amsterdam)
Industrialization and long-term trends in intergenerational mobility

2017-12-12
Rense Keizer (Erasmus University) (cancelled)
The role of the father in child development and the intergenerational transmission of social inequality

 

Våren 2016
2016-01-12    
Katharina Wesolowski (SOFI)    
Family policies and fertility - Examining the link between family policy institutions and fertility rates in 33 countries 1995-2010

2016-02-09 
Anna  Baranowska-Rataj (Umeå University)    
Individual and Family-level Effects of Adverse Birth Outcomes on Socioeconomic Status in Adulthood - Evidence from Swedish Register Data

2016-02-23
Lars H. Andersen (Rockwool Foundation)
How Delinquent Brothers-in-Law Undo the Crime-Fighting Benefits of Marriage: Evidence from Danish Registry Data

2016-03-08 
Moira Nelson (Lund University)
Sustainable citizenship on the local level in Sweden: Towards an understanding for how to resolve tensions between social, economic, and ecological sustainability

2016-03-22
Tak-Wing Chan (University of Warwick)
The social gradients of Autism Spectrum Disorders in England

2016-04-05
Irene Prix (University of Turku)
Factors compensating or buffering a disadvantaged family background with regard to social mobility processes - extended family members (aunts, uncles, grandparents)

2016-04-19
Giedo Jansen (University of Twente)    
Farewell to the Rightist Self-employed? ”New Self-employment” and Political Alignments

2016-05-03
Christian Brzinsky-Fay (WZB - Berlin Social Science Center)
Compressed, postponed, or disadvantaged? School-to-work-transition patterns and early occupational attainment in West Germany

2016-05-17
Eric Crettaz (University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland)
The mechanisms that lead to ”in-work poverty” in Europe: Theoretical considerations and empirical explanations of cross-country differences

2016-05-31 maj
Pontus Strimling (Institute for Future Studies)
The civilizing process revisited: How asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive norm change

2016-06-14 
Wim van Lancker (University of Antwerp)
Where to draw the line? On the measurement of institutional targeting: an empirical application using OECD data

Hösten 2016 
2016-09-20
Richard Breen (Oxford University)
Education and Social Mobility in Europe and the United States

2016-10-04 
Stine Møllegaard (Oxford University)    
The Effect of Birth Weight on Behavioral Problems: New Evidence from Monozygotic Twins

2016-10-12
Hyunjoon Park (University of Pennsylvania)
The Legacy of Disadvantaged Origins over Four or More Generations: Blocked Social Mobility of Descendants of Slaves in Korea, 19th Century

2016-11-01
Femke Roosma (Tilburg University)
Welfare retrenchment as self-fulfilling prophecy? Sources and consequences of opinions towards the perceived affordability of the welfare state

2016-11-15
Martin Hällsten (Stockholm University)
Family Wealth and Children's Educational Achievement in Sweden

2016-11-29
Celene Reynolds (Yale University)
Contagious Claims? The Diffusion of Title IX Complaints across American Colleges and Universities, 1994-2014

2016-12-13
Stephanie Plenty (SOFI)
Social Exclusion among Peers: The Role of Immigrant Status and Classroom Immigrant Density

Hösten 2015

 

2015-12-16

Matthijs Kalmijn (Department of Sociology - University of Amsterdam). 

Reservations about the link between marriage and health: Dynamic analyses of loss and gain effects

 

2015-12-08

Paul Nieuwbeerta (The Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology - Leiden University)

Intended and unintended consequences of imprisonment in The Netherlands. First results from The Prison Project

 

2015-11-24

Marie Evertsson (Department of Sociology - Stockholm University)

Institutional context, family policies and women’s and men’s transition to parenthood in eight European countries

 

2015-11-10

Reinhard Pollak (Berlin Social Science Center, WZB)

Why is there micro-class inheritance? Testing the association between parental micro-classes and respondents' occupational aspirations and placements

 

2015-10-27

Antonie Knigge (Sociology Department - Utrecht University)

Sources of Sibling Similarity. Status Attainment in the Netherlands during Modernization

 

2015-09-29

Herman van de Werfhorst(Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research-University of Amsterdam)

Early tracking in educational systems and various forms of inequality

 

2015-09-15

Fredrik Jansson (the Institute for Analytical Sociology - Linköping University). 

Ethno-Racial Homophily and Social Influence in Workplace Preferences: An Experiment on Mechanisms of Workplace Segregation

 

Våren 2015

2015-06-16

Kent Weaver (Georgetown University)

Pensions on autopilot? Sustaining automatic stabilising mechanisms in public pensions

 

2015-06-09

Joakim Palme & Olli Kangas

Welfare State Entry and Exit Over the Life Course: Stratification and Sustainability in Different Worlds of Welfare 

 

2015-05-26

Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University & London School of Economics)

Too many children left behind: The US achievement gap in comparative perspective

 

2015-05-12

Jenny Torssander (SOFI)

Family of origin and educational inequalities in mortality: Results from Swedish siblings

 

2015-04-28 

Conchita d'Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg)

Childhood Circumstances and Adulthood: The Effects of Financial Insecurity 

 

2015-04-14

Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)

Fertile Frontiers: A genetically-informed approach to fertility research

 

2015-03-31

Bruno Palier (Sciences Po)

The social dualization of Europe after the crisis

 

2015-03-17

Kelly Musick (Cornell)

Parenthood, time with children, and subjective well-being

 
2015-03-03
Lars Benjaminsen (The Danish National Centre for Social Research)
Homelessness and Evictions in a Scandinavian and European perspective 
 
2015-02-17
Stefan Svallfors (SOFI. Stockholm University)
The craftsmanship of policy professionals: knowledge in search for power
 

2015-02-03

Mikael Hjerm (Umeå University)

In the wake of extreme right electoral success: A cross-country comparative study of anti-immigration attitudes over time

 

2015-01-20

Sten-Åke Stenberg (SOFI)

Precariously housed in the welfare state: Power, paradoxes, and leaky funnels

 

 

Hösten 2014

 

2014-12-16

Susan Harkness (Department of Social & Policy Sciences - University of Bath)

The Effect of Employment on the Mental Health of Lone Mothers in the UK before and after New Labour’s Welfare Reforms

 

2014-12-02

Ryszard Szulkin (Institute for Futures Studies/Department of Sociology - Stockholm University)

Ethnic segregation and school results: Sweden 1998-2012

 

2014-11-18

Christiaan Monden (Department of Sociology - Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

Maternal Education and Under-5 Mortality in Low and Middle Income Countries: Do Girls and Twins Fare Better When Mothers Are (More) Educated?

 

2014-11-04

Magnus Nermo (SOFI - Stockholm University)

Family status and the gender wage gap in high skilled occupations – the importance of time-demanding job characteristic

 

2014-10-21

Giuliano Bonoli (IDHEAP - University of Lausanne)

Job market signalling, labour market disadvantage and activation

 

2014-10-07

Pearl Dykstra (Department of Sociology - Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Her and his life: How laws and policies shape the lives of men and women

 

2014-09-23

Ingrid Esser (SOFI - Stockholm University)

Matching of job preferences and job qualities in comparative perspective

 

2014-09-09

Mark Levels (ROA - Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics)

Mind the gap: Compositional, cultural and institutional explanations for numeracy skills disparities between adult immigrants and natives in Western countries

 

2014-08-26

Bruce Bradbury (Social Policy Research Centre-University of New South Wales)

SES gaps in child development in the US, UK, Australian and Canada

 

Våren 2014

 

2014-06-10
Olof Bäckman (SOFI - Stockholm University)
Causes and Consequences of Being Not in Employment, Education or Training as a Young Adult. Stability and Change in Three Swedish Birth Cohorts 

 

2014-05-27

Elina Kilpi-Jakonen (Department of Social Research, University of Turku)

Children of Immigrants Entering the Finnish Labour Market: Equal Opportunities or Persistent Barriers? 

 

2014-05-13

Michael Tåhlin

Motivation, effort, monitoring and economic rewards: Testing core claims of contemporary class theory

 

2014-04-29

Timo Kauppinen (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland)

Housing careers of immigrants in the Nordic capital regions

 

2014-04-01

Erik Bihagen (SOFI, Stockholm University)

Class and Status the Chan and Goldthorpe Way - are they really two forms of stratification?

 

2014-03-18

Andreas Kjaersgård (Center for Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University)

The Three Sides of the Equality-Coin: A Comparative Media Study of Danish and Swedish Newspapers 1996-2013

 

2014-03-04

Christer Gerdes (SOFI, Stockholm University)

Informed choice? The use and value of performance indicators when choosing among private providers of publicly funded employment services in Sweden

 

2014-02-18

Heejung Chung (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent)

Employment insecurity and the role of institutions

 

2014-02-04

Catherine Hakim (The Institute for the Study of Civil Society, London)

Revisiting Preference Theory: Do lifestyle preferences help to predict behaviour?

 

2014-01-21

Nathalie Morel (Sciences Po, Paris)

Servants for the knowledge-based economy? The political economy of domestic services in Europe

 

2014-01-14

Hans Dietrich (Institute for Employment Research - Nuremberg)

From vocational aspiration to vocational attainment – The process of adapting vocational aspiration within the final year of compulsory schooling

 

 

Hösten 2013

 

2013-12-17 

Göran Therborn (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

The Killing Fields of Inequality

 

2013-12-03

Tanja van der Lippe (Department of Sociology, Utrecht University)

The relation between work and family and quality of life in European countries

 

2013-11-19

Stefan Svallfors (SOFI, Stockholm University; Department of Sociology, Umeå University)

Policy professionals in Sweden - some thematic findings

 

2013-11-05 

Paola Mattei (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)

The Crisis of the Secular State in France: Religion and Diversity in French Schools

 

2013-10-22 

Daniel Clegg (School of Social and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh)

Active labour market policy and comparative welfare state analysis

 

2013-10-08 

Ive Marx (Department of Sociology, University of Antwerpen)

The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited

 

2013-09-24

Robert Mare (Department of Sociology, UCLA)

Multigenerational Stratification Processes: One and Two-Sex Approaches

 

2013-09-10 

Ida Öun (Department of Sociology, Umeå University)

Conflict and concord in work and family: Family policies and individuals' subjective experiences

 

 

Våren 2013

 

2013-06-18 

Anne Lise Ellingsæter (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo)

Institutional trust: family policy impact on fertility in Norway

 

2013-06-04 

Janne Jonsson (SOFI, Stockholm University & Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

The new immigrant health paradox: Youth mental wellbeing in comparative perspective

 

2013-05-14 

Jason Beckfield (Harvard University)

Job Security Provisions and Workplace Absence

 

2013-05-07

Markus Gangl (Goethe University Frankfurt

The Making of a Good Woman: Motherhood, Leave Entitlements and Women’s Work Attachment

 

2013-04-23

Maria Stanfors (Centre for Economic Demography/Department of Economic History, Lund University)

Fertility and the fast-track: Continued childbearing among professionals in Sweden, 1991-2009

 

2013-04-09

Emma von Essen & Jonas Karlsson (Department of Economics & SOFI, Stockholm University)

A matter of transient anonymity: Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions

 

2013-03-26

Cecilia von Otter (SOFI, Stockholm University) 

Childhood occupational preferences and adult outcomes - Findings from a Swedish metropolitan cohort

 

2013-03-12

Rense Nieuwenhuis (IGS, University of Twente)

Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women's Employment

 

2013-02-26

Johannes Lindvall (Department of Political Science, Lund University)

The Origins of Primary Education Regimes

 

2013-02-12

Michael Tåhlin (SOFI, Stockholm University)

Work careers, health and labor market exits

 

2013-01-29 

Liana Fox (SOFI, Stockholm University)

Can Parental Wealth Explain the Black-White Mobility Gap?

 

2013-01-15  

Staffan Kumlin (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg) 

Election Campaign Agendas, Government Partisanship, and Welfare State Generosity

 

 

Hösten 2012

2012-12-13

Maria Charles (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Who Likes Math? International Trends Among Eighth-Grade Girls and Boys.

 

2012-12-04

Leslie McCall (Northwestern University)

The undeserving rich: American beliefs about inequality, opportunity, and redistribution

 

2012-11-27

David Brady (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)

Paradoxes Lost and Found: Dimensions of Welfare Transfers, Poverty and Redistribution Preferences in Rich Democracies

 

2012-11-14

Wim van Oorschot (University of Leuven)

COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATE ANALYSIS WITH SURVEY-BASED BENEFIT RECIPIENCY DATA. The ‘dependent variable problem’ revisited introducing a new perspective on welfare state clustering

 

2012-10-16

Christopher Wildeman (Yale University)

Incarceration and population health in wealthy democracies

 

2012-10-02

Peter Hedström (Institutet för Framtidsstudier)

The role of networks in labor-market segregation

 

2012-09-18

Moa Bursell & Carl le Grand (Stockholms universitet)

Comparing fictitious and real persons: Explaining the unexplained immigrant-native labor market gap from register data - A replication of a randomized field experiment

 

2012-09-11

Rita Nikolai (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Restructuring secondary education: Determinants of school policy change in two German Länder

 

2012-09-04

Juho Härkönen (Stockholms universitet)

Diverging destinies in Europe? Education, family structure, and child well-being

 

Våren 2012

 

2012-06-12

Jaap Dronkers (Maastricht University)

Differences between the Educational Performance of 15-Year Old Daughters and Sons of Migrants in PISA 2009 and their Variation by Regions of Origin and Countries of Destination

 

2012-05-29

Heike Solga  (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)

Education and economic inequalities – The social investment state under scrutiny

 

2012-05-15

Marie Sallnäs (Stockholms universitet)

Welfare resources among children in care

 

2012-04-17

Walter Korpi & Stefan Englund  (SOFI, Stockholms universitet)

Origins of Proportional Elections and the Postwar Decline of Western Income Inequalities: The Cunning of History in Electoral Model Choice

 

2012-02-21

Lars Lindblom (Umeå universitet)

Combining Democratic Equality and Luck Egalitarianism

 

2012-02-07

Robert Erikson (SOFI, Stockholms universitet)

Dimensions of social background and educational attainment

 

2012-01-24

Hiroshi Ishida

Comparative Social Mobility: Japan and Late-Industrializing Nations