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Hunter York

@hunterwyork.com

Sociology PhD Candidate @ Princeton Work/Organizations/Social Stratification Runner, NUMTOT, Mississippian hunterwyork.com

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Olivier Godechot@oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sometimes (human/animal) social groups split into two (or more). Team departures in corporate firms, political party splits, religious schisms, software forks, etc. Let's study this. I hire a predoc or a postdoc on social group splits. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/events/...

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AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026Research Assistant job application for Research Group on Social Group Splits at AxPo, Sciences Po, Paris...

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Zach Parolin@zparolin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality will take place on 10-11 September at Nuffield College (Oxford). ▶️Plenaries: Philippe Aghion, Janet Gornick & roundable moderated by FT's Sarah O'Connor. 🚩CfP Deadline: 22 May. Join us in Oxford! Details here: atkinsonconference.github.io

The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality

A two-day interdisciplinary conference on economic and social inequality at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. 10–11 September 2026.

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Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic OpportunityIntergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
Yunhan Wen@yunhanwen.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on August 8 at UIC for this year’s Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS)! #asa (In suppressed voice) Also it’d be great if folks can make a small donation so that we can buy coffee for everyone ☕️

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Hunter York@hunterwyork.com · 2y ago

(Big) Pub day! What was once a replication project for my first-year PhD stats class turned into a different beast. Read on for some thoughts on intergenerational mobility along axes of occupational characteristics. (Coauthors @xisong.bsky.social and Yu Xie) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Gradationalism Revisited: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Along Axes of Occupational Characteristics1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 4

Studies of intergenerational occupational mobility typically characterize occupations quantitatively in one of two ways: gradationally or categorically. Both methods likely grossly oversimplify the co...

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