New paper reveals widespread decline in intergenerational economic mobility in 🇩🇪 for those born in the 70s and 80s. Similarly, educational inequality by parent income has also been increasing. 1/2 econpapers.repec.org/paper/cesces...

"Welche Verdrängungsleistung in ihren schlecht belüfteten Hirnwindungen bringt sie zu der Vorstellung, sie seien ein befreites Volk und kein besiegtes?" Kleiner Auszug aus den Texten von Lee Miller, die die US Army im Krieg begleitete: www.letnapark-prager-kleine-seiten.com/lee-miller-k...

📢 Join our final DIFIS #ILTSS online seminar: "Transnational #CareWork & #LabourMarkets" with Gülten Gizem Fesli & comments by Dr. Ruth Abramowski. 🗓️ Thursday, 03.04. ⏰ 11:00 CET Discuss intersectional union strategies & social justice! #Intersectionality #LabourRights #SocialJustice #union

The Dictators’ Club: How Regional Organizations Sustain Authoritarian Rule (OUP) is out now! 📚 We live in an age of rising authoritarianism. Many assume that regional organizations (ROs) are key to help protect democracy and human rights - but what if they do the opposite?

📢 DIFIS jetzt auf Bluesky! Das Deutsche Institut für Interdisziplinäre Sozialpolitikforschung (DIFIS) ist jetzt hier vertreten – und wir freuen uns auf den Austausch! 🚀 Folgt uns, diskutiert mit uns und lasst uns gemeinsam neue Perspektiven entwickeln! #Sozialpolitik #Forschung #DIFIS #Bluesky

Don't miss our next @difis.bsky.social ILTSS seminar on "Perceived Costs & Benefits of Further Training"! ⏰ 11 am - 12 pm (CET) 06.03.2025 📍Register: eveeno.com/difis-transf... Explore new research on training challenges & rewards for workers. Secure your spot now! #FurtherTraining #FutureOfWork

One core idea of DiscussData was to provide a safe haven for research data from authoritarian countries in the former Soviet Union, where researchers and academic freedom are often under threat. In a worrying development, similar initiatives emerge now in the US: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

Reminder: Our seminar "Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market" is almost here! Dr Christina Vonnahme will replace the original speaker on short notice. Don't miss key insights on sustainable transitions. Secure your spot now! #GreenJobs #Sustainability

Ich schlage vor, dass wir "Friedrichs Woche der Symbolpolitik" hinter uns lassen - und uns endlich die wirklich wichtigen Themen vornehmen: Wohnraum, ökonomische Ungleichheit, Bildung, Digitalisierung, Pflege, faire Löhne, Altersarmut, öffentliche Infrastruktur, effektiver Klimaschutz usw. #Merz

DIFIS invites you to the 5th DIFIS #ILTSS: Register and join us for Dr Markus Janser's virtual seminar on "Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows" ⏰06.02.2025 11am-12pm(CET) 🌐 t1p.de/f7kzb #GreenTransition #Inequality #FutureOfWork

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

The way I see it: a number of us will have to commit more firmly than ever to basic elements of humanity and collective progress. We have fear based, authoritarian powers ascending, aided and abetted by an information system that has people siloed and disconnected from each other.

Aufgrund der überwältigenden Reaktionen auf unseren Offenen Brief für ein AfD-Verbot starten wir eine zweite Runde! Wer noch unterschreiben möchte, kann zB hier eine dm schicken, bitte mit vollem Namen und juristischer Tätigkeit #noAfD #Riesa #AfDVerbotJetzt

A reminder that abstracts for this year's Regulating for Decent Work Conference #RDW2025 are due by 20th Jan (RDW Fellowship applicants), 10th Feb (Papers/Special Sessions). Come and join us in Geneva, 2-4 July for a global conversation on labour institutions and worker voice. www.ilo.org/rdw2025

Short reminder! You can still register and participate in tomorrow's #iltss seminar session! Register via eveeno: eveeno.com/difis-transf... #GenAI #chatgpt #newwork #transformation #digitalisation #rd #research #seminar

📢Meine Kolleg_innen vom DIFIS FoFe 4 "Lebensläufe und Sozialpolitik" laden herzlich zum Workshop "Lebenslauffolgen der professionellen Erbringung von Care-Arbeit" ein: ⏰06. - 07.02.2025 🏠Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen ✍️Anmeldung und Infos (detailliertes Programm etc.): difis.org/veranstaltun...

Herman Hertzberger. Eigenes Foto, verwendet in seinem Buch “Lessons for Students in Architecture”, 1991.

🎄🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Christmas Eve 2024: We wish all members of the University of Duisburg-Essen, all friends, all sponsors and all those who support us every day and feel close to us a ‘Merry Christmas’ 💫✨, happy holidays and a good start to 2025.

DIFIS invites you to the 4th DIFIS #ILTSS: Register and join us for Dr Anja Gerlmaier's & Paul-Fiete Kramer's virtual seminar on "Shift of Employment and Work Patterns in the Age of Generative AI?" ⏰09.01.2025 11am-12pm(CET) 🌐 t1p.de/f7kzb #DigitalTransformation #GenerativeAI #R&D #AIImpactOnJobs

Invitation to the 3rd DIFIS #ILTSS: Register and join us for Dr Gina Glock's virtual seminar on "Algorithmic Decision-Making in Service Work" ⏰12.12.2024 11am-12pm(CET) 🌐 t1p.de/f7kzb #worldofwork #Transformation #algorithms #servicework #AlgorithmicDecisionMaking #JobAutonomy #Futureofwork

“We don’t just want change - we want transformation. Something much bigger. We must transform our economies. We must transform the role & power of unions. And we must transform unions themselves, so we are more inclusive of young people & women," says UNI GS Christy Hoffman #Together2Transform

Come and join us tomorrow! Invitation to the 2nd DIFIS #ILTSS: Register & join us for Dr Terry Gregory's (LISER, Luxembourg & ZEW) virtual seminar on "Firm-Level Technology Adoption in Times of Crisis" ⏰14.11.2024 11am-12pm(CET) 🌐Infos&Register: t1p.de/f7kzb #worldofwork #transformation

Kick-off DIFIS #ILTSS: Join us for Dr Steffen Lehndorff's (IAQ, Duisburg, Germany) virtual seminar on "Socio-Ecological Transformation of German Industry: Challenges for Trade Unions" ⏰10.10.2024 11am-12pm(CET) 🌐Register: t1p.de/f7kzb #worldofwork #transformation #socialpolicy #interdisciplinary

Short Reminder! ⏰Deadline CfP: 15.09.2024 🌐Full Call for Contributions: t1p.de/9f9pi #SocialPolicy #cfp #cfa #worldofwork #transformation

📢 #CfP Join us at the DIFIS Virtual #Seminar Series! Share your #research on drivers of the sectoral economic transformation, institutional interdependencies & challenges of #SocialPolicy coordination of the modern #WorldofWork. ⏰Deadline CfP: 15.09.2024 🌐Call & submission info: t1p.de/9f9pi

⏰ Short reminder for the @difis_org #CfA for the #FISForum2024 from 06.-08.11.2024 in Berlin! We are looking forward to your submissions until 15.04.2024 #SocialPolicy

#CfA Join us at the DIFIS #FISForum2024 in Berlin! Share your #research on fragmentation, institutional interdependencies & challenges of #SocialPolicy coordination and the transformation of the modern #WorldofWork. Deadline CfA: 15.04.2024 Call: t1p.de/pm0r9