Are Skeie Hermansen
@aresherman.bsky.social
professor of sociology at the University of Oslo. trying to explain why some do, and some don't. "well, I can tell you about the river / or we could just get in"
Others claim that cities have the mysterious virtue of enhancing workers’ productivity. In this Nature Cities paper, our COIN team offers a simpler explanation. These cities are 'financial cities', where top earnings are inflated by rents in the financial labor market www.nature.com/articles/s44...
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
Extremely happy that my project got funded with a Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu. The project is called FIRMS, and with a team, I'll study how the workplace/firm affects inequality in careers. We'll use register data to trace the careers of millions of workers. 1/3 www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
Nine UvA researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui...
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Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences
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🚨 New paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social: Blending In or Moving On? @enlar.bsky.social @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, and I study how the share of immigrant coworkers affects whether immigrants stay or leave their job. Here’s what we find 👇 Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!
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.
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Two awards in one week to our "Great Separation" article in AJS, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot!
Olivier Godechot@oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 12mo agoOne year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive: - the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th - the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
RC28 Social Stratification@isa-rc28.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs go.nature.com/40ripuF
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.
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📍 Immigrants to Europe and North America earn, on average, 17.9% less than natives, as they struggle to gain access to jobs in higher-paying industries, occupations and companies. Three-quarters of the pay gap between the two correspond to a lack of access to high-paying jobs for immigrants. (1/4)
Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!
Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why
Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.
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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
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...
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New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.
Aleksander Å. Madsen@aleksandermadsen.bsky.social · last yr.Kicking off this account with a new working paper with @aresherman.bsky.social. Check it out!
Stay tuned for much much more. Sad story.
Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · last yr.Abel: I am writing in my capacity as Chair of I4R. Last year, I was contacted by a researcher that alerted me of potential scientific misconduct in a set of papers all using data from a specific NGO.🧵
Same Neighborhood, Same Employer? Residential Networks and Workplace Concentration Among Immigrants: http://osf.io/bvues_v1/
On the loss of a model of intellectual integrity and courage—Christopher Jencks. He showed us how to wade into troubled waters and come out the stronger for it. @theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...
The Exemplary Radical Skeptic
Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.
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New paper out in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Mats Lillehagen on workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation! We study why immigrants concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces and whether their native-born children gain better access to workplaces in the mainstream economy. #sociology
Entering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation
Abstract. Why do foreign-born immigrant workers often concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces? Do immigrants’ native-born children—who typically
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It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...
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The application deadline for our PhD course on organizations and inequality at the University of Oslo is coming up this Sunday (April 21). If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them!
Are Skeie Hermansen@aresherman.bsky.social · 3y agoWe are organizing a new Ph.D. course at the University of Oslo this spring (June 10–13 this year) that aims to provide a broad introduction to research on how organizations and employers contribute to creating or reducing inequality in the workplace. For more info please see flyer and link below!
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
We are organizing a new Ph.D. course at the University of Oslo this spring (June 10–13 this year) that aims to provide a broad introduction to research on how organizations and employers contribute to creating or reducing inequality in the workplace. For more info please see flyer and link below!
MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]
In "Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs", we show that sorting of immigrant-background workers into lower-paying jobs on average accounts for about 4/5th of immigrant–native earnings difference Our WP led by @aresherman.bsky.social is out: osf.io/preprints/so...