Come work with us in beautiful Munich! We’ve got an open position for a Junior Research Group Leader in Wealth Inequality Research, an awesome team, and what might be one of the best work-life balances around. And yes, the beer is always cold. 🍺 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3...

The Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social at @lmu.de is hiring a Junior Research Group Leader in Wealth #Inequality Research. Applications for the full-time, three-year role close on 15 November: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3...

✨ We’re hiring! ✨️ 🧾 Our 2026 recruitment brochure explains everything you need to know as a prospective applicant: what roles we're recruiting for, when applications close, and life working at the IFS. Take a look here ➡️ ifs.org.uk/system/files...

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When £35 New Zealand Chardonnay meets £1,000 white burgundy

Jancis Robinson joins a formidable line-up of tasters to put New Zealand wines alongside some top bottles from Burgundy — with results that may surprise you

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Terrific postdoc opportunities available:

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin@rfberlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 RFBerlin is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows in Economics. No teaching obligations, up to six years, unique datasets, and dedicated mentoring, a research-first home in Berlin. Apply by 10 November: buff.ly/v9Jz8ru #EconJobMarket #EconSky

Apply by Oct 4 2026 to the ISI Pipeline Program. There may be more fun ways to spend the weekend, but they don't provide you with 1 year of mentoring by a great scholar, funding for an international research visit & workshop, and 5,000 EUR in research funds! www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

Programmes at ISI — Pipeline — Research & Funding

Our pipeline program combines research, funding, and exchange on global inequality. Find out more about projects and fellowships now.

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Amazing new work from our new colleague @lukaslehner.bsky.social on the expansion of the Job Guarantee scheme in Austria

Lukas Lehner@lukaslehner.bsky.social · last yr.

Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

Job Vacancies

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The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...

Congratulations to our Director, Christian Dustmann, elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social The honour recognises his work across migration and labour markets, and the research institutions he's built, RFBerlin among them. 👏 buff.ly/43B5Ltu

Possibly longest thread I've ever written. Once again, despite all evidence, some folks, closely related to the 'bus industry' want to blame cycling for slowing down London buses. tl;dr: this is a lie & it's cars wot done it. It is not buses v cycling v walking or wheeling. It's all of us v cars...

London Cycling Campaign@londoncycling.bsky.social · 3w ago

Buses v cycling? A 🧵... Too often, the bus 'industry' defaults to attack cycling as cause of buses (in London) getting slower & slower. Good to see that somewhat countered here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i... by @theguardian.com data team. 1. Bus speeds dropping is a "global problem"... 1/13

Come and work with us! We're hiring a research assistant to work across UCL and IFS on applied micro/IO/public econ questions in food policy. A great opportunity for anyone considering an econ PhD to develop their research skills/experience across two brilliant research environments. Apply below 👇

The Institute for Fiscal Studies@theifs.bsky.social · 3w ago

🏢 Want to work with the IFS? @ucl.ac.uk is hiring a Research Assistant, with the successful applicant working across teams based at UCL and IFS. Apply via the UCL website by 30 September 2026 here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This is a potentially very big moment for those wanting to understand the UK labour market. Thanks to ADR UK for funding us www.adruk.org/news-publica... @sriucl.bsky.social

Tulane University Sociology are appointing an 18-month Postdoc for a new center focused on the future of work. Apply by October 15. tulane-ibqejb.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Fellow

POSITION OVERVIEW The Department of Sociology at Tulane University invites applications for an 18-month Postdoctoral Fellow in anticipation of a new center focused on the future of work, and the Fello...

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📢 We’re hiring We're looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to join a research project exploring the relationship between wellbeing & productivity at work, in a Cambridge University-wide partnership with KPMG. Apply by 8 October 2026: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/57112/

Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships are open for application at the EUI. For established academics to pursue their research up to 10 months (3 months funded). Deadline 30 Sep www.eui.eu/apply?id=fer...

Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships

Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships provide a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUIFellowshi

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I am looking forward to giving talks on The Wage Standard in Europe - in Wien, Oxford, London (Resolution Foundation), and Torino (Intl. festival of economics). October will be a busy month! Also exciting is that these talks will include some new findings. Coming soon! 1/

The Call for Papers for the 2027 Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Annual Meeting is now open! Submit your papers (deadline Oct 31): www.sole-jole.org/upcoming-mee... Hope to see you there -- April 30 - May 1 at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, Maryland!

Upcoming Meeting

Call for Papers is available and submissions are open!

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4-year postdoc at @wzb.bsky.social in the research group Globalization, Work and Production led by @martinkrz.bsky.social. Start: January 2027. Deadline: 30 September. wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

📚 Join us for the launch of Causal Processes and Their Warrant by Professors Nancy Cartwright and Eileen Munro, and Dr John Pemberton. The authors will discuss insights from the book with Hamid Vasheghanifarahani, chaired by Professor Armine Ishkanian. 📅 30 Sept 2026, 6.00-7.30pm 📍 LSE & online

Book Launch- Causal Processes and Their Warrant

6.00pm, Wednesday 30 September / Book Launch/ Causal Processes and their Warrant / Free event at LSE, pre-register to attend

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Gratitude to @pengzell.bsky.social for posting 15-part thread, re: my keynote at the Atkinson Conference on Economic & Social Inequality at Nuffield. Addressing that knowledgeable multi-generational audience was a gift. 🙏 @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last mo.

Next at the @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Atkinson Conference: @janetgornick.bsky.social keynote on cross-national inequality data and the history of @lisdata.bsky.social.

📣Publication alert!

Yonatan Berman@yonatanberman.com · 4w ago

Happy to see our paper on dividend tax reforms out in Fiscal Studies (@theifs.bsky.social)! On a conceptual note, dividend tax is unusual among widely used taxes: it falls heavily on the top 1% (and barely at all on the bottom 90%), while still having the potential to raise substantial revenue 1/2

Are you beginning your career researching social or wealth #inequality? The 2027 @isi-munich.bsky.social Pipeline Program pairs early-career scholars on wealth inequality with a senior mentor abroad. Apply by 30 Sep: form.jotform.com/262431358048... Info: www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

Have you tried Ben Jann’s -udiff- for Stata (SSC) doing exactly this?

Brendan Halpin@bthalpin.bsky.social · last mo.

I've thought this for years, but never really did the work: you can fit all sorts of social mobility topological models on individual data with it and get exactly the same results as with loglinear models of tabular data. And then you can add individual-level covariates. Well done!

Glad to see our study on Walmart's consequences for poverty and food hardship appear alongside a number of exciting studies in the recent Issue of #LabourEconomics Special Issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Our article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 One week left to submit! 3rd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, 11–12 Feb 2027 at @lseinequalities.bsky.social Submit a title + draft/extended abstract. 🔗 lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/events/conferences/2027-3rd-iii-lis-comparative-economic-inequality-conference/

Are inequality researchers too concerned with the ultra-rich? Proud to take part in the Atkinson Conference at Nuffield College (Oxford). On Sep 10, I’ll discuss with Mike Brewer moderated by Juliana de Castro Galvao. Info: atkinsonconference.github.io

Several interesting job openings now at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, including two Quantitative Policy Analysts: one in survey data and one in impact evaluation. recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies

We are hiring several full-time predoctoral #research fellows to start in summer 2027. If you are considering a PhD, interested in #bigdata, #economicopportunity, or #mobility scholarship, a #predoc fellowship at Opportunity Insights could be a great next step. opportunityinsights.org/joinourteam/