Bio
Carlos J. Gil-Hernández is Ph.D. Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) at the European University Institute (EUI), Italy. His research interests include educational inequalities, inter-generational social mobility, and social policy. His dissertation focuses on family mechanisms shaping early educational inequalities, and the evaluation of educational interventions.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @karlosj89
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Gil-Hernandez
Publications
Articles
Gil-Hernández, C.J., and Gracia, P. (2018). Adolescents' educational aspirations and ethnic background: The case of students of African and Latin American migrant origins in Spain. Demographic Research, 38(23): 577-618. https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.23
Gil-Hernández, C.J., Marqués-Perales, and I., Fachelli, S. (2017).Intergenerational Social Mobility in Spain between 1956 and 2011: The Role of Educational Expansion and Economic Modernization in a Late Industrialized Country. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.51:14-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2017.06.002
Marqués Perales, I., and Gil-Hernández, C.J. (2015). Social Origins and Over-Education of Spanish University Graduates: Is Access to the Service Class Merit-Based? Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 150: 89-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.150.89
Book Chapters
Gil-Hernández, C.J., Bernardi, F., Luijkx, R., and Salazar, L. (forthcoming). Intergenerational Social Mobility in Spain between 1945 and 2006: Social Fluidity without Educational Equalization? In R. Breen, R. Luijkx and W. Müller (Eds.), Education and Social Mobility in Europe and the United States. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Marqués Perales, I., and Gil-Hernández, C.J. (2015). “La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos” [The Open Society and Its Enemies], In: Ildefonso Marqués Perales (Eds.) (2015), La movilidad social en España[Social Mobility in Spain]. Madrid: La Catarata, 106-197.
Work in Progress
Bernardi, F., and Gil-Hernández, C.J (forthcoming). Disentangling the direct effect of social origins on labour market outcomes: micro parental classes and compensatory and boosting effects. In Salido, O., and Fachelli, S. (Ed): Perspectives and Borders in the Study of Social Inequality: Social Mobility and Social Classes in Times of Change. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Media
Articles
“¿Igualdad de oportunidades? Desigualdad social en España y Europa” [Equality of Opportunity? Social Inequality in Spain and Europe], eldiario.es, January 18th, 2016. (http://www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepapel/Igualdad-oportunidades-Desigualdad-Espana-Europa_6_473212681.html). With Pablo Gracia and Carlos Delclós.
“Promesas rotas y sospechosos habituales: movilidad social y sobrecualificación de los jóvenes españoles” [Broken Promises and Usual Suspects: Social Mobility and Overqualification among the Spanish Youth], eldiario.es, November 25th, 2015. (http://www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepapel/promesas-rotas-movidad-social-jovenes-espanoles_6_456064433.html). With Ildefonso Marqués Perales.
Mentions
El ascensor social se atasca
http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2016/06/19/actualidad/1466349498_314810.html
“Spain: where who you know still matters more than what you know?”
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/22/inenglish/1466589083_952820.html