Are jobs getting better? 📈 Kirsten Sehnbruch explains the impact of minimum wages on unemployment, the limitations of flexibility in labour markets and offers advice for young people joining the workforce. Read more in @lsebr.bsky.social ⬇️

🌍 From #Beirut’s 2020 Port explosion to #global planning debates: Prof. Mona Fawaz reflects on knowledge, politics, and representation in polarised contexts. Chaired by @davidjmadden.bsky.social. 📅 2 March | 6.30pm 🎟️ Open to all and free to attend #LSE #Sociology #Cities

What is the impact of technological change on wage inequality? Our latest working paper presents an empirical framework that isolates the effects of new technologies such as automation and AI on the entire wage distribution. @psalasr.bsky.social @raquelsebastian.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/qJB9DIG

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Professor Michelle A Williams discusses why pregnancy conditions remain understudied, how digital epidemiology transforms research, and the promise of precision prevention 🔍 Q&A ahead of our Annual Lecture (9 March): t.co/PPbJDKuf8T

How can we strengthen collaboration between disability & inequality movements? 📚 Read AFSEE Fellow Lyla Adwan-Kamara's blog 'Built on Trust, Designed for Inclusion: Rethinking Collaboration Between Disability and Inequality Movements': buff.ly/o0MCR91 and...

Deregulation alone can’t make homes affordable when rising inequality, not zoning, is what is driving prices up. The recent III working paper by Maximilian Buchholz, @tkemeny.bsky.social, Gregory F. Randolph, and Michael Storper discussed in @theguardian.com ⬇️

The World Inequality Report 2026 by @wid.world provides the most up-to-date picture of inequality worldwide. Join us as @lucaschancel.bsky.social and @ricardo-eco.bsky.social examine the stark disparities revealed by the report. 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/TBmmM6E 💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/UpqPu2O

“Imagine you had to design a society without knowing your own place in it... Would you design one where a tiny elite accumulates unimaginable wealth while a third of children grow up in poverty?” – @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“As health systems succeed in improving population health, public backing for equitable policies may naturally increase” – Marcello Antonini and Joan Costa-Font on health inequalities in our latest blog post. #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Following from the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, AFSEE Fellow Mariama Jobarteh highlights how progress in The Gambia requires more than legal defence or cultural resistance alone; it demands a moral reconciliation of law, religion, and cultural values. 📚Read the blog: buff.ly/IXUm7OF

Missed our recent seminar with @keetieroelen.bsky.social? In this talk, she asks: what can the lens of empathy and dignity bring to our understanding of poverty and the policies that seek to tackle it? Watch it here ⬇️

📢 Upcoming event 📍 Thu 19 Feb 6.30–8pm Reporting #Gaza: Coverage, Context & Consequences Join @omarghazzi.bsky.social, Des Freedman & Liliane Landor to discuss how mainstream media has covered the war on Gaza & the ongoing suffering of #Palestinians. 🎟️ Register: forms.office.com/e/EWr7xbnbA4

📢 New III WP: This paper provides a methodological contribution to the study of historical income inequality by examining the construction and use of social tables for the 19th century. @brankomilan.bsky.social @mgzl.bsky.social @ggabbuti.bsky.social @philerfurth.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/WUZKIMg

Talk of building a good society is often met with the charge of utopianism. But this is wrong, argues @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social. The blueprint for a fairer society lies in front of us – but it requires moving away from “trickle-down” economics #LSEInequalitiesBlog

How can the capability approach help us better understand employment? Kirsten Sehnbruch explores how an employment-capability framework can be used to compare employment outcomes and address distributional questions. 💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/1ovOBJ1 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/UvaYlDd

Those in worse health themselves tend to be *less* supportive of a fair healthcare system for society as a whole. What does this mean for the creation of more equitable healthcare systems? Marcello Antonini & Joan Costa-Font explore #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

What is the link between climate change and religion? Kristian Noll (@afsee-lse.bsky.social) and Dr Hanane Benadi argue that religion is critical to many people’s lived experience of the climate crisis. Read more in the latest issue of #LSEResearchForTheWorld ⬇️

How much of today's income inequality is inherited? 💰️ Most measures of intergenerational mobility focus on average outcomes. This III working paper proposes a new approach that captures differences across the entire income distribution. 🔗 buff.ly/zSL1fd1

Catch up now on our Inequalities Seminar with Dr Haley McAvay (@lsesociology.bsky.social) She explores the enduring relationship between residential diversity in adolescence and political behaviour later in life. youtu.be/kh3EyPWzeG0

How can we imagine and co-create sustainable and just futures? 🌱 Join us for the launch of a book that serves as both a call to action and a guide for transformation. With Najma Mohamed, Manisha Desai, Ashfaq Khalfan, and Mary Robinson

III Distinguished Policy Fellow Kirsten Sehnbruch is featured on the latest episode of the LSE iQ podcast 🎧️ She explains why improving job quality - not just quantity - is essential for tackling global inequalities and creating fairer labour markets. Listen now ⬇️

📢Join us for our event 'Eco-social contracts for sustainable and just futures' co-hosted with @gsos-lse.bsky.social on 18 February! For anyone seeking hope and direction during a time of global uncertainty, this event will explore how inclusive, regenerative, and just futures can be co-created.🌱

What are the material barriers that prevent some researchers from attending academic conferences? Do “epistemic hierarchies” further limit participation and the open exchange of ideas? Zehra Taşkın, Ivan Kislenko, Ayça Nur Sezen & Güleda Doğan explore #LSEInequalitiesBlog

How can we develop a more empathetic and dignified approach to anti-poverty and welfare policies? In our next seminar, @keetieroelen.bsky.social explores the double standards and myths that underpin attitudes to poverty. 💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/GgEC13T 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/fNtpaAX

Rather than a toxin that produces a sharp spike in mortality, inequality is “more like a fog that gradually seeps into every corner of social life” – Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“It's one thing to buy a private jet or a mansion, but quite another to buy off a judge, a legislator, a social network or a newspaper” – @cabrowns.bsky.social of @oxfaminternational.bsky.social in our latest blog on the risks to democracy posed by extreme wealth concentration #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Catch up on our Inequalities Seminar with Professor Markus Jäntti ⏯️ Using Swedish data, he shows that mobility looks very different depending on which parent you compare (mother, father, or both), which children you look at (sons, daughters, or everyone), and what kind of income you measure. 👇️

"Oxfam’s Global Inequality Report does not just describe a crisis. It issues a challenge. #Kenya must decide whether inequality is something it regrets or something it chooses," comments AFSEE Fellow Hadija Bonaya in her opinion piece for @citizentvkenya.bsky.social.

🌏 What does it mean to return home? Join us for a public conversation with author Tareq Baconi, Dr Mai Taha, and @aycacu.bsky.social on personal and political journeys, displacement and belonging, and identity. 📅 16 Feb | 🕕 6pm | 📍 LSE 🔗https://buff.ly/eJFXV1f #Sociology #HumanRights #memoir

🌏 Upcoming event | Governing with nature: towards transformative change? Find out how nature‑based solutions are reshaping urban governance and what this means for climate action, social justice, and cities. 📅 11 Feb | 🕡 6.30pm | 📍 In person & online #LSEEvents #Sociology

In his piece for the AFSEE Blog, AFSEE Fellow Max Nichols explains how the UK’s new public development bank can realise its transformative potential in rebuilding the UK by nationalising Thames Water. 📚 Read the blog: buff.ly/HfI7aJC

I spoke to the brilliant @petergeoghegan.bsky.social about the British elite and how they profit from the symbolic market for ordinariness democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

“Inequality has left such a deep imprint on health and wellbeing not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope and age” – Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

The world's billionaires increased their wealth by $2.5tn in 2025 alone – as much as the entire wealth held by the poorest half of humanity. @cabrowns.bsky.social of @oxfaminternational.bsky.social asks: is such extreme wealth inequality compatible with a democratic society? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Does living in ethnically diverse areas in adolescence give us an increased tolerance toward immigration later in life? Join our next Inequalities Seminar as Haley McAvay (@lsesociology.bsky.social) explores this question. 💻 Attend online: buff.ly/osSvS6v 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/cjsy4sZ

Catch up on last week's Inequalities Seminar 💻 In this presentation, Professor Anthony Shorrocks presented a simple solution for inequality researchers to interpret inequality values in an intuitive way.

“The MAGA movement is not wrong about one thing. The US working class has been given the shaft by US firms, and the government (whether Republican or Democrat) has not protected them" – @dont-d.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“The plot was familiar, the plight relatable, and the struggles eerily similar to newspaper headlines today” – Rafael Zhansultanov on the feeling of déjà vu reading Crime and Punishment in relation to today’s youth #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📣 Calling all early-career researchers working in social sciences Call for papers now open for 'Beyond the Divide: Early-Career Conference on Political Dimensions of Urban and Rural Life', co-hosted with @lsegovernment.bsky.social 📆 Apply by Friday 13 February 🔗 buff.ly/PEegnDR

The UK LIS Satellite Office is pleased to announce that LIS data can now be securely accessed through the SafePod Network (SPN), a key channel for expanding the use of LIS data. Eligible UK-based LIS researchers can now access LIS data from participating universities across the SPN in the UK 📊

A popular view holds that declining housing affordability stems from regulations that restrict new supply. This new III working paper argues that uneven demand growth – driven by rising interpersonal and interregional inequality – is the primary driver of declining affordability. 🔗 buff.ly/r41lN8k

World leaders gather in Davos this week, but is the current economic system – large firms maximising profits while working class families fall ever further behind – on the brink of collapse? @dont-d.bsky.social explores in our latest post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

What happens when finance grows beyond what the economy needs? 💸 Last week, we hosted the international conference Too Much Finance at LSE. Over two days, researchers and policymakers explored this important issue through talks and discussions, while setting out key policy implications.

At our next Inequalities Seminar, we are joined by Markus Jäntti 💡 He explores the welfare implications of both inter- and intragenerational mobility and, once family incomes are introduced, assortative mating. 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/5rtmc94 💻 Attend online: buff.ly/cCavMly

Crime and Punishment (1868) tells the story of a student pushed to the brink amidst ever deeper levels of debt and destitution. Most disturbing of all, writes Rafael Zhansultanov, are the eerie similarities to the situation faced by young people today #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/0iX3N5y

Once finance grows beyond a certain size, it stops supporting growth and becomes a drag on the economy 📈 These important findings came out of last week’s Too Much Finance conference at LSE, covered by @guardianheather.bsky.social for the @theguardian.com ⬇️ buff.ly/N1IdbZd

“Low taxes on the super-rich are widely considered to be unfair and – crucially – this undermines support for taxing the middle classes” – David Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social & @julianlimberg.bsky.social on the hidden cost of low tax rates for billionaires #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“What concerned Plato… was that inequality drove citizens apart and made their mutual friendship virtually impossible” – @laywilliams.bsky.social on why arguments against inequality do not boil down to mere “envy” of the rich #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Is there an association between higher levels of authoritarianism and the World Bank’s promotion of decentralization reforms in educational systems? Mobarak Hossain investigates in the context of low and middle-income countries.

How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? In a new article, Kristin Surak and Johnathan Inkley supply a pioneering analysis of the offshore structures used to hold personal property. 🔗 buff.ly/ayERNyT