Jan Jonsson - List of publications#

• 2012, Michelle Jackson, Jan O. Jonsson, and Frida Rudolphi: “Ethnic Inequality and ChoiceDriven Educational Systems: A Longitudinal Study of Performance and Choice in England and Sweden”, Sociology of Education 85: 158-178.
• 2011, Jan O. Jonsson and Frida Rudolphi: “Weak performance – strong determination. School achievement and educational choice among ethnic minority students in Sweden.” European Sociological Review 27:487-508.
• 2010, Jan O. Jonsson: “Child Well-Being and Intergenerational Inequality.” Editorial, Child Indicators Research 3:1-10.
• 2010, Jan O. Jonsson and Viveca Östberg: “Studying Young People’s Level of Living: The Swedish Child-LNU.” Child Indicators Research 3:47-64.
• 2009, Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak, and Mary C. Brinton “Micro-Class Mobility. Social Reproduction in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 114: 977-1036.
• 2008, Jan O. Jonsson and Carina Mood: “Choice by contrast: How peers’ achievement affects educational choice in Sweden.” Social Forces 87: 741-765.
• 2007, Richard Breen and Jan O. Jonsson: “Explaining Change in Social Fluidity: Educational Equalization and Educational Expansion in Twentieth Century Sweden.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1775-1810.
• 2005, Richard Breen and Jan O. Jonsson: “Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility.” Annual Review of Sociology 31:223-43. 4
• 2003, Ursula Henz and Jan O. Jonsson: “Union disruption in Sweden. Does economic dependency inhibit separation?”, in H.-P. Blossfeld and R. Müller (eds.), Assortative Partnership. Selection, Division of Work in the Household, and Union Separation, International Journal of Sociology 33:3-39.
• 2000b, Jan O. Jonsson and Robert Erikson: “Understanding Educational Inequality. The Swedish Experience.” L’Année sociologique 50:345-382.
• 2000a, Richard Breen and Jan O. Jonsson: “A Multinomial Transition Model for Analysing Educational Careers.” American Sociological Review 65:754-772.
• 1999, Jan O. Jonsson: “Explaining gender differences in educational choice: An empirical assessment of a rational choice model.” European Sociological Review 15: 391-404.
• 1998b, Jan O. Jonsson: “Class and the changing nature of work: Testing hypotheses of deskilling and convergence among Swedish employees.” Work, Employment, and Society 12: 603-633.
• 1998a, Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson: “Social Origin as an Interest-Bearing Asset: Family Background and Labour Market Rewards among Employees in Sweden.” Acta Sociologica 41: 19-36.
• 1997b, Richard Breen and Jan O. Jonsson: “How reliable are studies of social mobility? An investigation into the consequences of errors in measuring social class.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 15: 91-112.
• 1997a, Jan O. Jonsson and Michael Gähler: “Family Dissolution, Family Reconstitution, and Children's Educational Careers: Recent Evidence for Sweden.” Demography 34: 277-293.
• 1994, Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson: ”Ökade löneskillnader - ett sätt att ta tillvara begåvningsreserven?” Ekonomisk Debatt 22: 581-94. (“Increased Wage Differentials - A Way of Mobilizing the Pool of Talent?”)
• 1993c, Jan O. Jonsson and Colin Mills: “Social Mobility in the 1970s and 1980s: A Study of Men and Women in England and Sweden.” European Sociological Review 9: 229-48.
• 1993b, Jan O. Jonsson and Colin Mills: “Social Class and Educational Attainment in Historical Perspective: A Swedish-English Comparison. Part II.” British Journal of Sociology 44:402-28.
• 1993a, Jan O. Jonsson and Colin Mills: “Social Class and Educational Attainment in Historical Perspective: A Swedish-English Comparison. Part I.” British Journal of Sociology 44:213-47.
• 1987, Jan O. Jonsson: “Class origin, cultural origin, and educational attainment: the case of Sweden.” European Sociological Review 3: 229-242.

• 2001b, Jan O. Jonsson and Colin Mills (eds.): Cradle to Grave. Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden. Durham: Sociologypress. From 2009 on Routledge.
  • Chapters by Jonsson in Cradle to Grave:
    • “Introduction: Family, Work and Inequality in a Life-Course Perspective” (with Colin Mills), pp. xii-xxix. 5
    • Chapter 1: “Towards a Post-Fordist Life-Course Regime? Generational Changes in Transitions and Volatility”, pp. 1-28.
    • Chapter 4: “Giving Birth without Giving Up: Return to Employment and Return to Work amongst Women” (with Colin Mills), pp. 70-96.
    • Chapter 5: “The sooner the better? Parental leave duration and women’s occupational career” (with Colin Mills), pp. 97-114.
    • Chapter 11: “The Swedish Level-of-Living Surveys: A general overview and description of the event history data” (with Colin Mills), pp. 228-42.
• 2001a, Jan O. Jonsson and Viveca Östberg, in collaboration with Marie Evertsson and Sara Brolin Låftman: Barns och ungdomars välfärd. SOU 2001:55. Stockholm: Fritzes. (Commission Report: “The welfare of young people”)
• 1996, Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson (eds.): Can Education Be Equalized? The Swedish Case in Comparative Perspective. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
  • Chapters by Jonsson in Can Education be Equalized:
    • “Introduction: Explaining Class Inequality in Education: The Swedish Test Case” (with Robert Erikson), pp. 1-64. Chapter 1: “The Swedish Context: Educational Reform and Long-Term Change in Educational Inequality” (with Robert Erikson), pp. 65-93.
    • Chapter 3: “Stratification in Post-Industrial Society: Are Educational Qualifications of Growing Importance?”, pp. 113-44.
    • Chapter 5: “A Half Century of Increasing Educational Openness? Social Class, Gender and Educational Attainment in Sweden, Germany and Britain” (with Colin Mills and Walter Müller), pp. 183-206.
• 1995, Jan O. Jonsson and Michael Gähler: Folkbildning och vuxenstudier. Omfattning, rekrytering, erfarenheter. SOU 1995:141. Stockholm: Fritzes. (Commission Report: “Folkbildning and Adult Education. Dimensions, Participants, Experiences”.)
• 1994, Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson (eds.): Sorteringen i skolan. Studier av snedrekrytering och utbildningens konsekvenser. Stockholm: Carlsson. (“The school as a sieve. Studies in social selection and the consequences of schooling”.)
  • Chapters by Jonsson in Sorteringen i skolan:
    • Chapter 1: ”Förskola – en strategi för jämlikhet?” (“Public day-care – a strategy for equality?”)
    • Chapter 11: ”Utbildning och social reproduktion: Sverige i ett internationellt perspektiv” (”Education and social reproduction: Sweden in an international perspective.”)
• 1993, Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson: Ursprung och utbildning. Social snedrekrytering till högre studier. SOU 1993:85. Stockholm: Fritzes. (Commission Report: “Origin and education. Social selection to higher education”.)
• 1988, Jan O. Jonsson: Utbildning, social reproduktion och social skiktning, (Diss. in Sociology), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. (”Education, social reproduction, and social stratification.”) 6

• Forthcoming, Michelle Jackson and Jan O. Jonsson: “Why does inequality of educational opportunity vary across countries? Primary and secondary effects in comparative context.” In M. Jackson (ed.) Determined to Succeed? Performance versus Choice in Educational Attainment. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• 2012, Carina Mood, Jan O. Jonsson, and Erik Bihagen. “Socioeconomic Persistence across Generations: Cognitive and Noncognitive Processes.” Chapter 3, pp. 53-83, in John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), From Parents to Children. The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. New York: Russell Sage.
• 2011, Jan O. Jonsson, David Grusky, Reinhard Pollak, Matthew di Carlo, and Carina Mood. “Occupations and Social Mobility: Gradational, Big-Class, and Micro-Class Reproduction in Comparative Perspective”, Chapter 5, pp. 138-171 in Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jäntti (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting. The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. New York: Russell Sage.
• 2010, Jan O. Jonsson, Carina Mood, and Erik Bihagen. ”Fattigdomens förändring, utbredning och dynamik.” (“Poverty in Sweden: Trends, Scope, and Dynamics”) Chapter 3 (pp. 90-126) in Social Rapport 2010. Stockholm: Socialstyrelsen.
• 2008, David B. Grusky, Yoshimichi Sato, Jan O. Jonsson, Satoshi Miwa, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak, and Mary C. Brinton, “Social Mobility in Japan: A New Approach to Modeling Trend in Mobility”, pp. 1-25 in Tsutomu Watanabe (ed.), Intergenerational Mobility and Intragenerational Mobility.
• 2007, Jan O. Jonsson: “The farther they come, the harder they fall? First and second generation immigrants in the Swedish labour market.” Ch. 11, pp. 451-505 in Heath, A.F. and S.Y. Cheung (eds.), Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy.
• 2007, Jan O. Jonsson and Robert Erikson: “Sweden. Why Educational Expansion Is Not Such a Great Strategy for Equality: Theory and Evidence”, pp. 113-139 in Yossi Shavit, Richard Arum, and Adam Gamoran (eds.), Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press.
• 2004b, Jan O. Jonsson: “Equality at a halt? Social mobility in Sweden 1976-99”, pp. 225-250 in Richard Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2004a, Jan O. Jonsson: “Förskola för förfördelade?”, Chapter 3, pp. 90-121, in Magnus Bygren, Michael Gähler och Magnus Nermo (eds.), Familj och arbete – Vardagsliv i förändring. Stockholm: SNS.
• 2003, Ursula Henz and Jan O. Jonsson: “Who marries whom in Sweden?”, pp. 235-266 in H.-P. Blossfeld and A. Timm (eds.), Who marries whom? Educational systems as marriage markets in modern societies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• 1999, Jan O. Jonsson: “Dismantling the Class Society through Educational Reform? The Success and Failure of Swedish School Politics”, pp. 148-175 in A. Leschinsky and K.-U. Mayer (eds.), The Comprehensive School Revisited: Evidence from Western Europe (2nd Ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang. 7
• 1998, Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson: “Qualifications and the Allocation Process of Young Men and Women in the Swedish Labour Market”, Chapter 12 in Yossi Shavit and Walter Müller (eds.), From School to Work. A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 1993, Jan O. Jonsson: “Education, Social Mobility, and Social Reproduction in Sweden: Patterns and Changes”, Chapter 5 in E. J. Hansen, S. Ringen, H. Uusitalo & R. Erikson (eds.), Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe.
• 1993, Jan O. Jonsson: “Persisting inequalities in Sweden?”, Chapter 5 in Y. Shavit & H.-P. Blossfeld (eds.), Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries, Boulder, Col.: Westview Press.
• 1987, Jan O. Jonsson: “Educational Resources”, in R. Erikson & R. Åberg (eds.) Welfare in Transition. A Survey of Living Conditions in Sweden 1968-1981. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon).

• 2011, Jan O. Jonsson, Carina Mood, and Erik Bihagen: “Poverty in Sweden 1991—2007. Trends, dynamics, and intergenerational transmission of poverty during economic recession and growth”, Working Paper 2011/10, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI).
• 2007, Ryszard Szulkin and Jan O. Jonsson: “Ethnic Segregation and Educational Outcomes in Swedish Comprehensive Schools.”, SULCIS Working Paper 2007:2, SULCIS and Swedish Institute of Social Research, Stockholm University.