Irene Michelin

@irenemichelin.bsky.social

PhD student in Sociology and Social Research at @UniTrento | Research interests: social stratification and mobility, labour market inequalities, overeducation

Just published my first article! 🎉 We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access. 1/3

Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background

Children with foreign-born parents attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) to a lower extent than native-background children in most European…

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Publication alert 👏 Our members are all about situating stratification processes within institutional contexts, so seeing this chapter by our P. Barbieri out in "The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification" feels extra special. A must-read for social scientists! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Labor Market Institutions and Social Inequality

AbstractInstitutions are defined as formal and informal norms enforced with sanctions. From a sociological point of view, institutions address the distribu

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📣 Last days to apply 📣 Only one week left to apply to the 6th edition of TN-Square. If you are interested in employment and mobility over the life course, this is your chance to join #TNSquare25! Link to programme and application form (deadline: August 25th): event.unitn.it/tn-square/#a...

TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento

Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

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The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️ This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we couldn’t be more excited. ✨ Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news! For more spoilers, check our website: event.unitn.it/tn-square/ #TNSquare25

TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento

Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

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Another day, another Brown Bag Seminar! 🏔️ Today we had the pleasure of hosting C. Mussida presenting her on-going work (w/ D. Sciulli) on low-pay work in 🇪🇺. Is it transitory or permanent?

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It’s a wrap for this 2025 edition of RC28 in Milan! 🌞 It’s always a pleasure to engage with familiar faces and get to know new ones. Thank you to the organising committee for the hard work! See you around! #RC28

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It’s Brown Bag Seminar’s time! 🏔️ For today #BBS, our @filippogch.bsky.social and M. Aprea presented new evidence on sibling correlation in 🇮🇹 (w/ M. Raitano and P. Barbieri) using administrative survey linked data! So much still to learn about mechanisms of intergenerational transmission! ✨

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Round 2 of this week Brown Bag Seminar (#BBS) is a wrap! 🏔️ Today, it was @pfallesen.bsky.social turn to share his expertise and insightful contribution on research on the effect of divorce on children. We are left with one question: What are the counterfactuals? 💡 #BBS

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📚The Sixth Joint Doctoral Conference has officially kicked off. A number of PhD students, researchers and professors from all around Europe are now gathered at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento. We are thrilled to spend these two days together ✨

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Another exiting season of Brown Bag Seminars ( #BBS ) is ahead of us! In this first session, we had the pleasure to have E. Murard presenting his work on the role of emigration experience for pro-immigrant attitudes. 🌍

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