📘 Der neue INEQ 2-Jahresbericht ist da! Im INEQ 2-Jahresbericht 2024/2025 ziehen wir Bilanz über unsere Arbeit der vergangenen zwei Jahre – von Forschung über Lehre bis hin zu Veranstaltungen. 📄 Der Bericht ist ab sofort auf unserer Website verfügbar: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_jahresb... #INEQ

Golden opportunity for anyone interested in labor markets, inequality, orgs in the US context

3rd Opportunity & Mobility research grant at III LSE. Join us for a visiting period! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

🎉 New TREE data available on SwissUbase! The first TREE cohort follows individuals from compulsory school in 2000 through education and employment up to 2019. A unique longitudinal resource for research on educational pathways and careers in Switzerland. 👉 doi.org/10.48573/fdq...

Three days left to send interesting abstracts tackling various topics of social policy to socialpolicy.ch, a swiss based diamond open access journal.

Immensely proud to see two newish publications out that begun their life as masters theses a wee while ago... links below

Thanks to Social Policy Blog for posting our blog and for pointing readers interested in the politics of #fathers' leave to the original article: Martin Gurín & Janet C. Gornick, 2024, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 40:3. @stone-lis.bsky.social @paidleaveforall.bsky.social

Last days to send your semi-plenary proposal for the next SSA Congress in Fribourg. ⛳

Between privilege and merit: Selection criteria and inequality in access to prestigious fields of study Talk by Dr. Claudia Finger (University of Bern) 📅 10/12/2025 🕓 16:15–17:45 📍 Room B 202, Fabrikstrasse 8, University of Bern More info: Research Colloquium Program (link in bio)

🚀 A new version of our causalweight package for the statistical software R is online, containing some of the latest causal machine learning methods for the estimation of treatment effects: www.rdocumentation.org/packages/cau... #CausalInference #CausalAnalysis #MachineLearning

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

Submitted :)

Gender Role Attitudes and Related Behaviors Among Refugees in Germany Talk by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen (University of Bamberg) 📅 03/12/2025 🕓 16:15–17:45 📍 Room B 202, Fabrikstrasse 8, University of Bern More info: Research Colloquium Program (link in bio)

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

See you in Sevilla! RC28 conference, 20-22 May 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1st of December eventos.upo.es/137585/secti...

Some quick takeaways from this session on my experience editing sociology journals, what drives decisions, what reviewers actually do, and what authors should know.

Amazing research!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.

Important takeaway for funding bodies ...

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

🎉 Wir feiern 10 Jahre INEQ! Bei unserer Jubiläumsfeier vor rund einem Monat haben wir erstmals unser Video zu „10 Jahren INEQ“ gezeigt – jetzt ist es auch online auf short.wu.ac.at/ineq_10_jahre verfügbar. 🎥 Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die Teil dieser Reise waren – und sind. #INEQ

📢 Call for Papers 📢 💡 19th Winter School on #Inequality & #SocialWelfare Theory (IT19) Jan. 6-10, 2026 in Alba di Canazei. 🤝 Organized by @cesifo.org, the University of Verona & @liser.lu ⏳ Application deadline: Nov. 27 🔗 Click to discover the confirmed speakers + more: liser.lu/events/canaz...

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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