Returning to the Venice Workshop of Analytical Sociology this week meant a lot to me--smart talks, kind people, and lots of cool ideas. Shout out to the lovely community on Bluesky @kauspurg.bsky.social @marklutter345.bsky.social @verenaseibel.bsky.social @sawalzenbach.bsky.social ...

Our paper "Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States" is finally out in the European Economic Review! @paulhufe.net

I'm thrilled to announce that I joined the IAB Hesse! 🥳💚 Looking forward to advising the Regional Directorates and the Federal Employment Agency, and continuing my labour market research. It is an honour to work with such a community of expert researchers. Please reach out if you'd like to connect!

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

🚨New paper in SER🚨 Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux #Sociology #Demography #Inequality

As @oxfam-de.bsky.social also argues, equalizing gender gaps among billionaires is the second-best solution. Abolishing billionaires the first. Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Männer, Milliarden, Macht: Wie die fehlende Besteuerung von Vermögen Geschlechterungleichheit zementiert

Weltweit und auch in Deutschland besitzen Frauen deutlich weniger Vermögen als Männer. Im Bereich der Milliardenvermögen ist der sogenannte Gender Wealth Gap besonders ausgeprägt. Für eine geschlechte...

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research@isi-munich.bsky.social · last yr.

@szde.bsky.social asks today: Are even female billionaires taxed less favorably than male billionaires in Germany? The short answer: yes. @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social explains why this has unfortunate consequences for everyone in this country: www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/m...

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...

🚨 Applications are still open for the rest of the week 🚨 (full review begins Monday, Jan 20)

Fabian Pfeffer@fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.

Please join us (in person or virtually) for the opening of the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI). Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time. Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Measuring inequality

“We will be relevant”: Sociologist Fabian Pfeffer about the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI) at LMU, which officially opens this week.

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I am happy that my paper with Sabine Düval is now published. We use survey experiments & causal mediation analyses to explore gender ideologies & norms underlying the division of housework. We argue that traditional ideologies may have been overestimated in previous research...

Arnout van de Rijt@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 2y ago

"By gradually adding information about labor market resources, we were able to override respondents’ stereotypical beliefs." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class

Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion - Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage, Maren Toft, 2024

Wealth inequalities are increasingly prominent in contemporary societies but they have not been systematically addressed by sociological class analysis. However...

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🚨 Job Announcement: Two Positions in Our Administrative Leadership Team 🚨 Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München. Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread: /1

Am Arbeitsbereich Sozialstrukturanalyse und Survey-Methodologie @socfub.bsky.social ist eine Postdoc-Stelle für 3,5 Jahre zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist: 30.9.2024 #Soziologie Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

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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2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/ @dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social

The life course approach: an interdisciplinary paradigm in family research often too abstract to guide hypotheses on family life variation. New Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @robgruijters.bsky.social & Anette Fasang -> a life course theoretical framework with case studies doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective We propose a life course theoretical framework for understanding variation in family life courses between birth cohorts (historical time), societies (place), and social groups (social loca...

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Introducing ISI, the new Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research: www.lmu.de/isi (for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...) We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1

Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research

ISI is a research center for the study of social inequality. It connects researchers across the world and supports the next generation of inequality scholars.

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Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

OnlineFirst in #JESP: András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth and I show that using a floating poverty threshold dramatically underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272 Thread 👇👇👇

Have you also been looking for literature on the new DiD vs. TWFE estimators in Sociology? Below is a paper that provides an intuitive explanation along with simulations! 👇

Tobias Rüttenauer@ruettenauer.bsky.social · 3y ago

New paper on #TreatmentHeterogeneity in fixed-effects with @aksoyundan.bsky.social! Discover when conventional Two-Way Fixed-Effects hold strong & where we need Dynamic DiD estimators? 📈 osf.io/preprints/so... Spoiler: TWFE is better than you think🤯 #SocialSciences #SocTwitter #Sociology #DiD

Super excited to be part of this group! And really looking forward to Montreal!

Jennifer Hook@jenlhook.bsky.social · 3y ago

Congrats to the new cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social Early Career Fellows! See you in Montreal! @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social @eunjeongpaek.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @tomlyttelton.bsky.social @decastrogalvao.bsky.social

💥We are recruiting! Two exciting positions (post-doc or post-grad) available in my recently started ERC-Consolidator Grant "EDUPOL - Education policies that work: A context-sensitive ‘big data’ approach" Deadline: 9/02/24 More info below 👇

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

Wir freuen uns sehr, einen der Anerkennungspreise im Rahmen der AK Essaypreis-Ausschreibung zum Thema „Überreichtum“ gewonnen zu haben. Danke an Daniel Mayerhoffer und @jansg.bsky.social für die tolle Zusammenarbeit. Unser Essay findet sich hier:

Daniel Witzani-Haim@dahaim.bsky.social · 3y ago

Die Texte sind digital verfügbar: emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/image... 5/5

Die @arbeiterkammer.bsky.social hat heuer den ersten AK Essaypreis zum Thema "Überreichtum" ausgelobt. Gefragt waren Essays 📚, die die gesellschaftlichen und demokratiepolitischen Herausforderungen von Überreichtum thematisieren. 1/5

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Das reichste Prozent in Österreich hat fast die Hälfte des gesamten privaten Vermögens. Das bedeutet eine enorme Konzentration von Macht & Einfluss. Die AK Wien hat erstmals einen mit 5.000 Euro do...

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Returned from an insightful Venice Workshop! Kudos to @kalf.bsky.social for 👨‍🏫 our inequality and taxation research with M Mühlböck and B Kittel. Thanks to LMU Munich and Academy of Sociology for having us at VIU! Engaging discussions, excellent presentations and sunny weather made it memorable ✨🔔!

Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc