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Professor of Sociology at SOFI (Swedish Institute for Social Research), Stockholm University
Statistics Sweden: "Prices are rising in line with inflation." (source:
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Every analysis of the effects of children’s screen time needs to include, as the counterfactual, older generations’ countless hours spent watching TV test cards while waiting for something to come on
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@weratedags.com
How do you rate this one?
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Mine is: Paper I am glad I never wrote (but someone else did).
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When I submitted this paper, I couldn’t have guessed I’d soon join
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as Associate Editor. Glad to see it published in print now, with great company from some other authors I’ve edited over the past year.
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Kristian Bernt Karlson
2 months ago
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=164858
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Per Engzell
3 months ago
Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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IFAU
5 months ago
Välkommen att söka forskningsbidrag från IFAU senast den 15 september! Läs mer:
www.ifau.se/Forskning/Fo...
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Are Skeie Hermansen
3 months ago
Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in
@nature.com
’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!
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Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs
Recognizing foreign qualifications and providing language training could improve immigrants’ access to better-paying positions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02546-2
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Christiaan Monden
3 months ago
Job alert! Join us at
@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years.
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Just replaced my 'gone sailing' note
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Are Skeie Hermansen
4 months ago
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in
@nature.com
this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
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Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09259-6
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IIES, Stockholm University
5 months ago
🧵 Should we subsidize elder care more? 1/ A new thesis by IIES’s Patrizia Massner uses Swedish data to explore big social challenges - aging populations, economic inequalities, and the role of public policy. 👇
www.su.se/institute-fo...
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Should we subsidize elder care more? - Institute for International Economic Studies
A new doctoral thesis by IIES graduate student Patrizia Massner looks into some of today’s most pressing social and economic challenges (from aging populations to inequalities in work and family life)...
https://www.su.se/institute-for-international-economic-studies/news/should-we-subsidize-elder-care-more-1.830023
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Carl Nordlund
5 months ago
Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology
@iasliu.bsky.social
? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!
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PhD student in Analytical Sociology
https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/27064
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv)
6 months ago
What we know and do not know about social mobility
https://osf.io/uznr6
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social mobility research, examining both class/occupational mobility and income mobility. It traces the historical development of sociological and econom #sociology
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Marc Keuschnigg
6 months ago
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
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Led By Donkeys
7 months ago
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Ingrid van Dijk
7 months ago
Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞
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Peter Nilsson
7 months ago
DP20210 Equality for Granted: What Happens when Discrimination in Academia Becomes Salient?
cepr.org/publications...
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DP20210 Equality for Granted: What Happens when Discrimination in Academia Becomes Salient?
We document the individual, organizational, and field-wide impacts following a public disclosure of substantial male bias in the competence assessments of newly minted PhDs applying for an important individual grant from the Swedish NIH. Post-disclosure, three key changes occurred: (i) a rapid phase-out of male-only review committees, (ii) adjustments in the decision-making processes of reviewers, and (iii) an elimination of the average male bias. We follow applicants’ publications, promotions, and earnings up to 18 years after application. We document an increase in the allocative efficiency of the research grants: the long-run research output of grantees assigned to review committees with an average pre-disclosure bias increased by 27 percent of a standard deviation compared to those assigned to unbiased committees. The disclosure of bias prompted coordinated actions with broader downstream academic and societal impact: female enrollment in biomedical PhD programs increased by 10 percentage points relative to other fields – in turn increasing female health focused research by 20 percent, without crowding out attention to men’s health.
https://cepr.org/publications/dp20210
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
7 months ago
Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉 Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century. Great work, Xiaojie!
#PhD
#education
#sociology
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Per Engzell
7 months ago
Terrific dissertation defense by Xiaojie Xu at
@sofi.su.se
today and proud supervisor moment for me. Thanks
@hermwerf.bsky.social
for doing us the honors!
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research
7 months ago
You: "I should really submit that abstract on wealth inequality." Also you: waits until the last possible second. 🔥 THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND IS NOW 🔥 CfP for our Wealth Conference closes APRIL 28. Submit or regret it!
www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...
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European Societies
7 months ago
Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints:
@beckerbastian.bsky.social
and
@norawaitkus.bsky.social
's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution" Link:
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Johanna Rickne
7 months ago
We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩
@abrarbawati.bsky.social
,
@josefinemagnusson.bsky.social
Moa Frödin
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Jani Erola
7 months ago
Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!
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Paula England
7 months ago
Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here:
cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site
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CID-Haifa-Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow-Posting
https://cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site/
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research
8 months ago
🍕 🥂 Have you submitted to our conference yet? We’re waiting for you — if not, we might have to analyze the social dynamics of ‘people who miss great events’!
www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...
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Call for Papers ISI Wealth Conference 2025
International Conference on Wealth Inequality: The Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI) is hosting a research conference in Munich from 9 - 11 October 2025.
https://www.lmu.de/isi/en/latest-news-and-events/news-overview/news/call-for-papers-isi-wealth-conference-2025.html
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Ingrid van Dijk
8 months ago
My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’.
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:809395/
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Elien Dalman
8 months ago
When is Hammarskjöld going to clean your office? Very happy to have this article from my PhD now published in RSSM, on surnames and social mobility:
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101033
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Frank van Tubergen
8 months ago
We're hiring! Vacancies for 3 permanent research positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level at NIDI (The Hague), in the field of labor market studies, inequality, and human geography/spatial studies.
#Sociology
#Demography
#SocialSciences
#Economics
nidi.nl/en/about-us/...
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Vacancies - NIDI
Vacancies Are you interested in joining our interdisciplinary team of ambitious researchers studying population issues? Then we welcome you to reply to the vacancies at NIDI advertised below. 3 Resear...
https://nidi.nl/en/about-us/vacancies/
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Adrian Adermon
8 months ago
New
@ifau.bsky.social
WP out with Martin Nybom and Gunnar Brandén:
www.ifau.se/Forskning/Pu...
The social mobility literature has organized around three types of measures: intergenerational regressions, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity (EOp) indices. 1/4
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IFAU
https://www.ifau.se/Forskning/Publikationer/Working-papers/2025/The-relationship-between-intergenerational-mobility-and-equality-of-opportunity/
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Tarjei W. Havneraas
8 months ago
Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (
@uio.no
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tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc
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Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277092/postdoctoral-fellow-segop
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Jani Erola
8 months ago
Ukraine needs support from Europe now more than ever before. This is out way of maintaining that. Pass on the word!
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Pythagoras ask!
9 months ago
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Kristian Bernt Karlson
9 months ago
We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in
#sociology
here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=163265
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
9 months ago
Congratulations
@roujman.bsky.social
, PhD in Sociology, who has been appointed Associate Professor at SOFI! Roujman Shahbazian began his doctoral studies here in 2013 and has been an active researcher at the institute ever since.
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Fabian Pfeffer
9 months ago
Is wealth inequality corrosive to society? Can't wait to get started on our new project "Wealth and Social Cohesion from a Relational Perspective" with a fantastic team:
@natrinh.bsky.social
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@dariatisch.bsky.social
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@rcarranzan.bsky.social
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@schechtlm.bsky.social
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Wooseong Kim (김우성)
9 months ago
I’m happy to share that I have successfully completed my PhD in Sociological Demography at Stockholm University! I am deeply grateful to my wonderful supervisor,
@siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social
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@sd.de
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@martinhallsten.bsky.social
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Peter Fallesen
9 months ago
Position for associate professor in quantitative sociology open in Denmark, note that candidate is expected to learn Danish within first two years
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Sinisa Malesevic
9 months ago
Fully funded PhD Scholarship in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, starting 1 Sep 2025:
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=163265
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Patrick Präg
10 months ago
Don't forget to be grateful for the little things in life: This seminar series will not be canceled by the US administration 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Jens Rydgren
10 months ago
Open Ph.D. student position calls in Sociology and Sociological Demography at Stockholm University: Ph.D. student position in Sociology:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Ph.D. student position in Sociological Demography:
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
The closing date is March 1. _________
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PhD student in Sociology (A)
The Department of Sociology , founded 1954, offers a lively and collaborative research environment with a strong international research profile. The department is especially competitive in the areas o
https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:791041/where:4/
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Maddy Jalbert
10 months ago
I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
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Jan Mewes
10 months ago
Do you live outside Norway, have a PhD in social sciences, want to work on trust and/or social capital and want to combine this with an Arctic adventure in wonderful Tromsø? Then apply for an Arctic Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! Deadline 16 Feb!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309439
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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Trust and social capital
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309439
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Meanwhile in the UK ...
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Jan Helmdag
12 months ago
New SPIN update with ANNUAL data 🔥 I’m very proud to announce a new update for the Social Insurance Entitlements dataset (SIED) that includes annual data on replacement rates for unemployment, sickness, accident, and old-age benefits for 37 countries from 2000 to 2023.
www.su.se/social-polic...
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