📢 In this Social Forces article, I introduce occupational elitism as a novel measure of social closure: the share of upper-class background workers within an occupation. Its consequences for earnings stratification can be examined using a social closure theory lens. 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

It's *sneakers*. 👟

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

NEW research by Dr @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social reveals the persistence of racial inequality in the 1910-20s Great Migration ⬇️ The findings reveal that the Great Migration maintained racial gaps in career mobility. Read in full 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Racial Gaps in Career Mobility during the Great Migration - Dirk Witteveen, 2025

The author investigates whether the Great Migration closed or mitigated racial disparities in career advancement. Using linked historical census data, tracking ...

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ana valdivia@anavaldi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:

Moving up by moving up? D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

I also study AI.

Democracy Now! is seeking an experienced leader to join our team as Director of Technology. More details: democracynow.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0plq3/

📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci

Gender and racial diversity socialization in science - Nature Computational Science

A computational null model is proposed to study the gender and racial diversity-association effects in academia. Researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturi...

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Following the 10-vote win that made him mayor of Burlington 43 years ago, @sanders.senate.gov took to national television for the very first time to explain his socialist politics.

Tell 'm Bernie.

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

At a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper, Sen. Bernie Sanders explained why he believes both political parties are influenced by a corrupt campaign finance system.

⬇️ NEW publication from Dr Dirk Witteveen (Departmental Lecturer) in International Migration Review: 'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?' Read in full: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN #demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4... DM or reach out *PLEASE RE-POST*

What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration? Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:

New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈 Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants. with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration? - Dirk Witteveen, Mobarak Hossain, 2025

This article examines the association between modernization and career growth of American men and European immigrants, focusing on heterogeneity along ancestry,...

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Some RC28 @ Milan impressions

Very interesting presentation by @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social at #RC28 on the match between college majors and jobs in the US. What seems to matter most is getting into the occupation that matches degree, not as much the skills or whether you train further.

New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷 Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... #EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution

Are you a social scientist or historian whose work includes analysis of the offshore finance system? Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social. Due May 15th. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

Call for Papers

Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H

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🚀Bluesky, we are hiring! 4 days left to apply. 2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration @WZB in Berlin Please share! DM for further info wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/342...

"In short, QCA often finds complexity where none exists." This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...

This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

Spent a fantastic week with colleagues and friends at Stockholm University's @sofi.su.se, despite the slightly disappointing weather ☁️ 👀

I'm very excited to give a talk about ethnic earnings inequality in football at UCL this coming week. Hybrid format! 🧑🏻‍💻👀

UCL Social Research Institute@sriucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

What drives #ethnic earnings #inequality in professional European #football?⚽💸 Join us as @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social examines the #racial-ethnicBias in leagues like @plnews.bsky.social + others using 10,442 player-season records📊 Kick off next Wednesday 1:00pm👇 Book: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

New blog: @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social on crime rates and why youth clubs could be valuable investments, based on her @theifs.bsky.social research

Youth clubs could be valuable investments - Understanding Society

What are the effects of youth club closures in the UK? widespread closing of youth clubs during the 2010s driven by government austerity measures led to falling educational performance and increasing ...

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📣 @bjsociology.bsky.social is seeking reflections by sociologists from across the world on the ongoing managerial and ideological attacks on higher education. Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

When I looked at this for sociology I found that a higher journal impact factor successfully predicted which paper would be cited more 54% of the time. (Sociologists, be sociological!) familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/d...

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145) | University of Oslo

Job title: Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

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