Max Thaning
Biographic Data
| ID | 160505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Thaning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Thaning |
| SIGNATURE | THANING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1859-4703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Household classification, family diversity and poverty risks in Europe: Addressing a North-Western bias
European statistics and policies commonly rely on household typologies that classify households based on the number of adults and children living together. However, these typologies overlook family relationships and classify any non-standard arrangement into a broad residual category of ‘other’. This approach fails to capture increasing family diversity across Europe and introduces a persistent North-Western bias into data and policymaking. As a …
Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the United States
Intergenerational educational mobility reflects a welfare state's ability to provide citizens with opportunities to climb the social ladder. Representing two distinct welfare state types, studies have contrasted mobility patterns in Scandinavia and the United States but have provided no consistent answer as to who achieves the highest level of intergenerational educational mobility. We conduct a meticulous examination of intergenerational educati…
Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature
BACKGROUNDThe concept of resilience in familial and social contexts has gained prominence in academic and policy discussions.However, the interplay between family life and social inequalities, and how these relate to each other in the resilience literature, has yet to be documented. OBJECTIVEThis scoping review addresses this gap by analysing 250 articles published between 1998 and 2023.We compare the concept of resilience as applied in family an…
The families in households typology: Searching for families in social surveys
sponsorship: This work was supported by HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council [Grant Number 101060410]; Innovate UK. (HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council|101060410, Innovate UK, Horizon Europe - Pillar II|101060410)
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is all the more urgent to study as workplaces, in the last decades, have undergone profound reorganizations that could affect the magnitude and evolution of earnings segregation. Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, the au…
Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality
The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the effect of increased capital requirements and the bonus cap on national earnings inequality. We use administrative employer-employee-linked data from 1990 to 2019 for 12 countries and data from bank reports, from 2009 to 2017 in 13 …
Wealth as One of the “Big Four” SES Dimensions in Intergenerational Transmissions
Recent scholarship on mobility has increasingly incorporated wealth. We ask if wealth brings anything new to mobility research or is just a standard socioeconomic status (SES) dimension in disguise. We exploit Swedish administrative registers, which contain rich SES measures over individuals’ lives for both parents’ and children’s generations. Using sibling correlations to estimate a baseline of shared family background influence, we then perform…
Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income
Socioeconomic status (SES) multidimensionality in the intergenerational transmission of inequality is examined by focusing on how multiple SES resources – education, occupation, and income – are transmitted over corresponding child outcomes. The degree to which transfers are generic or specific over resources is assessed and whether misspecification results in bias. Using high-quality Swedish administrative register data and estimating variance d…
Ampleur et évolution de la prime salariale financière
Nous mesurons l’ampleur et l’évolution de la prime salariale liée à un emploi en finance. Dans treize pays développés, les salaires, notamment les hauts salaires, ont augmenté dans ce secteur à un rythme soutenu pendant les années 1990 et 2000, contribuant fortement à l’augmentation de la part du top 1 % national et par conséquent aux inégalités. L’explication de cet écart par des différences de talent ne suffit pas à en rendre compte. En France,…
Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries
Significance Understanding the causes of rising inequality is of concern in many countries. Using administrative data, we find that the share of inequality that is between workplaces is growing in 12 of 14 countries examined, and in no country has it fallen. Countries with declining employment protections see growth in both between- and within-workplace inequalities, but this impact is stronger for between-workplace inequalities. These results su…
The End of Dominance? Evaluating Measures of Socio-Economic Background in Stratification Research
We analyse how to best combine information on both parents' socio-economic status (SES) in intergenerational research. This can be done by utilizing separate measures for each parent, taking averages over parents, modelling interactions, or only using the highest value across parents-the latter commonly referred to as the dominance approach. Our brief literature review suggests that (i) the dominance tradition is widespread, although seldom theor…
Multiple dimensions of social background and horizontal educational attainment in Sweden
We follow Swedish cohorts born between 1976 and 1984 through their educational career and analyze how different dimensions of parents’ socio-economic standing (SES) in education, occupation, income, and wealth structure horizontal attainment in secondary tracks and tertiary fields. Our results show that there is strong horizontal segregation by parents’ SES. However, the influence of social background dimensions on educational attainment is not u…
The End of Dominance? Evaluating Measures of Socio-Economic Background in Stratification Research
We analyse how to best combine information on both parents' socio-economic status (SES) in intergenerational research. This can be done by utilizing separate measures for each parent, taking averages over parents, modelling interactions, or only using the highest value across parents-the latter commonly referred to as the dominance approach. Our brief literature review suggests that (i) the dominance tradition is widespread, although seldom theor…
Multiple dimensions of social background and horizontal educational attainment in Sweden
We follow Swedish cohorts born between 1976 and 1984 through their educational career and analyze how different dimensions of parents’ socio-economic standing (SES) in education, occupation, income, and wealth structure horizontal attainment in secondary tracks and tertiary fields. Our results show that there is strong horizontal segregation by parents’ SES. However, the influence of social background dimensions on educational attainment is not u…
Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income
Socioeconomic status (SES) multidimensionality in the intergenerational transmission of inequality is examined by focusing on how multiple SES resources – education, occupation, and income – are transmitted over corresponding child outcomes. The degree to which transfers are generic or specific over resources is assessed and whether misspecification results in bias. Using high-quality Swedish administrative register data and estimating variance d…
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is all the more urgent to study as workplaces, in the last decades, have undergone profound reorganizations that could affect the magnitude and evolution of earnings segregation. Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, the au…
Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality
The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the effect of increased capital requirements and the bonus cap on national earnings inequality. We use administrative employer-employee-linked data from 1990 to 2019 for 12 countries and data from bank reports, from 2009 to 2017 in 13 …
Multiple dimensions of social background and horizontal educational attainment in Sweden
We follow Swedish cohorts born between 1976 and 1984 through their educational career and analyze how different dimensions of parents’ socio-economic standing (SES) in education, occupation, income, and wealth structure horizontal attainment in secondary tracks and tertiary fields. Our results show that there is strong horizontal segregation by parents’ SES. However, the influence of social background dimensions on educational attainment is not u…
Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries
Significance Understanding the causes of rising inequality is of concern in many countries. Using administrative data, we find that the share of inequality that is between workplaces is growing in 12 of 14 countries examined, and in no country has it fallen. Countries with declining employment protections see growth in both between- and within-workplace inequalities, but this impact is stronger for between-workplace inequalities. These results su…
The End of Dominance? Evaluating Measures of Socio-Economic Background in Stratification Research
We analyse how to best combine information on both parents' socio-economic status (SES) in intergenerational research. This can be done by utilizing separate measures for each parent, taking averages over parents, modelling interactions, or only using the highest value across parents-the latter commonly referred to as the dominance approach. Our brief literature review suggests that (i) the dominance tradition is widespread, although seldom theor…
Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income
Socioeconomic status (SES) multidimensionality in the intergenerational transmission of inequality is examined by focusing on how multiple SES resources – education, occupation, and income – are transmitted over corresponding child outcomes. The degree to which transfers are generic or specific over resources is assessed and whether misspecification results in bias. Using high-quality Swedish administrative register data and estimating variance d…
Ampleur et évolution de la prime salariale financière
Nous mesurons l’ampleur et l’évolution de la prime salariale liée à un emploi en finance. Dans treize pays développés, les salaires, notamment les hauts salaires, ont augmenté dans ce secteur à un rythme soutenu pendant les années 1990 et 2000, contribuant fortement à l’augmentation de la part du top 1 % national et par conséquent aux inégalités. L’explication de cet écart par des différences de talent ne suffit pas à en rendre compte. En France,…
Wealth as One of the “Big Four” SES Dimensions in Intergenerational Transmissions
Recent scholarship on mobility has increasingly incorporated wealth. We ask if wealth brings anything new to mobility research or is just a standard socioeconomic status (SES) dimension in disguise. We exploit Swedish administrative registers, which contain rich SES measures over individuals’ lives for both parents’ and children’s generations. Using sibling correlations to estimate a baseline of shared family background influence, we then perform…
Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality
The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the effect of increased capital requirements and the bonus cap on national earnings inequality. We use administrative employer-employee-linked data from 1990 to 2019 for 12 countries and data from bank reports, from 2009 to 2017 in 13 …
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is all the more urgent to study as workplaces, in the last decades, have undergone profound reorganizations that could affect the magnitude and evolution of earnings segregation. Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, the au…
Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature
BACKGROUNDThe concept of resilience in familial and social contexts has gained prominence in academic and policy discussions.However, the interplay between family life and social inequalities, and how these relate to each other in the resilience literature, has yet to be documented. OBJECTIVEThis scoping review addresses this gap by analysing 250 articles published between 1998 and 2023.We compare the concept of resilience as applied in family an…
The families in households typology: Searching for families in social surveys
sponsorship: This work was supported by HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council [Grant Number 101060410]; Innovate UK. (HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council|101060410, Innovate UK, Horizon Europe - Pillar II|101060410)
Household classification, family diversity and poverty risks in Europe: Addressing a North-Western bias
European statistics and policies commonly rely on household typologies that classify households based on the number of adults and children living together. However, these typologies overlook family relationships and classify any non-standard arrangement into a broad residual category of ‘other’. This approach fails to capture increasing family diversity across Europe and introduces a persistent North-Western bias into data and policymaking. As a …
Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the United States
Intergenerational educational mobility reflects a welfare state's ability to provide citizens with opportunities to climb the social ladder. Representing two distinct welfare state types, studies have contrasted mobility patterns in Scandinavia and the United States but have provided no consistent answer as to who achieves the highest level of intergenerational educational mobility. We conduct a meticulous examination of intergenerational educati…
Economics (8 works) · Inequality (7 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Educational attainment (4 works) · Social mobility (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Earnings (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)