Kick-off of today's workshop: Who’s afraid of #Gender? Lessons for research, #PolicyAdvocacy and action 🗣️ Prof. David Paternotte begins w/ an introductory lecture “Navigating [through/with] gender in society” ℹ️ Discover the event program: www.liser.lu/events/Gende... #GenderSky #Econsky

Swiss Sociological Association Congress 2026- Fribourg 🇨🇭 Sep 2–4 We are welcoming workshop proposals until Nov 15. Semi-plenaries until Dec 15 ssa-congress26.sciencesconf.org @sggfsseg.bsky.social @unifr.bsky.social @dessociales.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social

Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️

Deadline: Monday (Nov 3). The Stone Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is hiring. Applications are open for two postdocs - one focused on #mobility and #poverty; the other on #wealth. Consider spending two years with us in🎶"New York New York (So Nice they Named it Twice)"!

Deadline approaching - November 3! Two postdoc positions at the GC-CUNY @stone-lis.bsky.social center in New York City. One position is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth #inequality. Info and link below. #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky 👇👇👇 bit.ly/40TZR6J

📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh... 📆 Deadline 16 November 2025

In 2026, Swiss online journal socialpolicy.ch celebrates its 10th birthday. Abstracts are welcome until Nov 15th for a special issue, focusing on a decade of dynamic developments and critical transformations in the field of social policy. www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford! @zparolin.bsky.social is hiring: 🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility 🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!! ⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025. Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM. Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

This is a really cool paper!

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

📣 Last call for applications! 📣 The deadline for applications is approaching (August 25th) but there are still spots available for #TNSquare25. You don't want to miss it! Link to application here: webapps.unitn.it/form/en/Web/...

From the INEQ Working Paper Series 📚 In WP 33, @petrasauer.bsky.social, Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer propose a typology of self-employment based on job quality. 📄 Find the paper: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_wp_33 #INEQ #INEQ_WP

Anybody good ideas for research on how the factors that explain wages change along the distribution, and are potentially substantially different at the very top?

True, fresh-from-the-press research & important research, but still one "research" too much 😅

Fresh-from-the-press research important research on stratification in Chilean higher education.

I can only underline this!

RC28’s first online thematic meeting🎉This online meeting will be free of charge. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026 and will be hosted virtually by the Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS), a Sciences Po/CNRS unit, in Paris. More info 👇 www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

Very happy to be part of this special issue on "Gender and Wealth Accumulation" in @sasemeeting.bsky.social next to a fantastic group of scholars ✨ @dariatisch.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @pmlersch.bsky.social @shayobrien.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

A well put reminder about four sources of legitimacy of higher education institutions, each of which being being in critical state. And about what we can learn from this in times when HEIs legitimacy is increasingly under scrunity. www.socialeurope.eu/universities...

Wow, what a full room. Wishing you an inspiring and fun week @lisdata.bsky.social!

It was great to chat with Steven Durlauf (@durlauf.bsky.social), Director of @ucstonecenter.bsky.social‬, about wealth inequality, social mobility, education, and the problem of owning a Picasso!

Curious who's behind INEQ? 🧠 We've just launched a starter pack featuring our team – researchers working on topics of inequality. 👉 Check it out and follow the people behind the research: "INEQs – meet the inner circle" go.bsky.app/B7ff4zJ

INEQ is now on Bluesky! ✨ Curious about research on inequality? So are we! 📈 We’re INEQ, based at @wuvienna.bsky.social. Follow us for research, publications and events on inequality. For more, visit our homepage ⬇️ ineq.at

The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️ This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we couldn’t be more excited. ✨ Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news! For more spoilers, check our website: event.unitn.it/tn-square/ #TNSquare25

Reminds me of Bowles and Gintis "Schooling in Capitalist America" ... yet their account concerned the US in the 70s, this is about the UK today.

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

Come join the delightful team at @umichstonecid.bsky.social. My colleague Pablo Mitnik is seeking a postdoc for *this fall.*

Let me introduce you to my new blog on substack, Rolling Downhill at www.rollingdownhill.com! A common image for economic mobility is a rock climber. A sociological approach lends itself to another image: a ball rolling down a hill. I unpack this analogy in the introductory post.

New article in Social Policy & Administration, with Kees van Kersbergen: We explore how firms – often overlooked in debates on AI and social policy – perceive AI and what policy responses they support. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467... 🧵

📢 Call for Papers: Die 14th Young Economists Conference findet am 2.&3.10. in Linz statt! Im Fokus: globale Krisen, Ungleichheit & sozial-ökologische Transformation. 🎓 Für Early-Career-Forscher:innen (WiWi, Soz, PoliSci) 📝 Abstracts bis 18.5. an [email protected] 🔗 Infos: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/yec2025

At the core of what keeps my head busy these days. Should look at @lisdata.bsky.social to see whether this is a more general trend. Why ... good question!

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7th Workshop on Experiments in Social-Science Research, September 18–19, 2025, Budapest, Hungary , HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies For details see: kti.krtk.hu/en/rct-works... Submit an extended abstract (300–500 words) by June 1, 2025. Contact: [email protected]

The Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) is inviting proposals for modules! 📊 ASEP is a household panel 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 with a sample of 5,000 households. For the second wave in autumn 2026, the ASEP Survey will include open modules 📝 More: www.statistik.at/fileadmin/pa... Submissions until July 31, 2025! 📆

The most successful and influential Americans come from a surprisingly narrow range of 34 ‘elite’ educational backgrounds doi.org/10.1057/s415... www.nature.com/artic... data here: https://osf.io/jvmdc/

A great postdoc position with the truly amazing Isabell - supportive, sharp, and a joy to work with! Apply if you are looking for a postdoc position!

One week from today! @c-hughes.bsky.social, Stone Center Associate Director Leslie McCall, and @dorianwarren.bsky.social will discuss today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change. Moderated by @feliciawong.bsky.social. Register for the in-person event or livestream!

Deadline at the end of this week ⬇️

Fresh new INEQ working paper All the Same? – Job Quality and Heterogeneity Among the Self-employed with Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/rese...

Making Sense of Diverging Trends in Personal and Household Income Inequality: New findings from Zachary Parolin, @lukaslehner.bsky.social & @mitiwer.bsky.social's @natewilmers.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/264pe64r

💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥

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.

Our study shows educational expansion isn’t always enough. Wondering what this means for policy today? A summary with the key takeaways in this short policy brief: www.linkedin.com/posts/maresp...

🍕 🥂 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...

Postdoc job alert: 🇨🇭 If you are a quantitative stratification / inequality / life course sociologist (or close) who could plausibly teach in French then you should apply for this super job at LIVES / @dessociales.bsky.social / @unil.bsky.social with Daniel Oesch @populationeu.bsky.social

Happening today! Join on site or online. Looking forward to an inspiring discussion with students and colleagues at the University of Fribourg. www.unifr.ch/sopa/de/news...

Great opportunity to get introduced to LIS data, and, at the same time, meet great people and have fun!