Abstract

The University of Luxembourg, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held ONLINE and IN-PERSON.

This seminar aims to integrate the spread-out potential for research on social inequalities that exists in Luxembourg.

November 13th  Wednesday, 15.30-16.30 [CET]

The following presentation is scheduled:

Speaker: Oscar Smallenbroek

Talk title: The multiverse of social class. A large-scale assessment of macro, meso and microlevel approaches to class analysis

Abstract:Different class theories suggest competing mechanisms behind stratification and assume primacy of different levels of occupational aggregation. By comparing eight class schemes across 13 outcomes with data from 650.000 individuals in 66 countries, we offer the most comprehensive multi-scheme comparison of class stratification. We asses scheme performance by average effect strength and model fit. Results suggest that microclasses are the best analytical choice with sufficiently large samples. If parsimony is taken into account and samples are smaller, aggregated class schemes are superior in terms of model fit. The article concludes with a nuanced guide for empirical class analysis.

In person room:MSA 4.330    

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Professional researchers, PhD students and policy analysts interested in social science research are particularly welcome to attend the seminar, participate in the discussions and present their research. Please contact enrico.nichelatti@uni.lu