No child poverty in Sweden? Think again! We found big differences in poverty rates, poverty gaps and poverty buffers between children of Swedish-born and foreign-born parents. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... With @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social

The Need and Capacity for Resilience in European Labour Markets: An Inequalities in Resilience Framework New paper with @thaning.bsky.social @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman, just published in Social Policy & Administration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Need and Capacity for Resilience in European Labour Markets: An Inequalities in Resilience Framework

Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. Thi...

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Job alert! @cassandraengeman.bsky.social is hiring a researcher in her MakingTime ERC project, focused on the role of trade unions and organised labour in advocating and shaping care leave policies. A great opportunity to work @sofi.su.se in a collaborative team. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Researcher in Social Sciences

The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. SOFI is an internationally-leading institute in the fields of social policy, welfare

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🚨CfP “The politics of welfare state reforms” at ESPAnet 2026 in Lisbon, 26–28 August🚨 Stream info: www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/u... Key details 📅 Paper submission deadline: 17 May 2026 📍 Conference dates: 26–28 August 2026, Lisbon 📃 Submit your abstract here: 2026espanetconference.exordo.com

24th ESPANET Annual Conference

Resize? Restructure? The European Social Model under Pressure. Click Here to Submit Your Abstract Deadline for Submissions: 17th of May 2026 The European Social model is under pre...

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Karenztag einführen, Krankengeld kürzen, Feiertage abschaffen, Arbeitsrecht und Grundsicherung schleifen, Kündigungsschutz lockern… …jede noch so dumme Idee liegt auf dem Tisch, keine einzige davon sorgt für Wachstum. Aber darum geht es auch nicht: Es ist Klassenkampf von oben

📢NEW PUBLICATION: Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ). doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

Nordic ESPAnet Early Career Seminar! Opportunity for Doctoral students and Postdocs to discuss their work, in an environment tailored to quality feedback. Organised at @sofi.su.se and keynotes by @cassandraengeman.bsky.social and @janhelmdag.bsky.social More info: espanet.org/nordic-semin...

Happy to share this new paper @jeppjournal.bsky.social with my great colleagues @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen. In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Key points in 📈👇

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers

Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis

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Die weniger irreführende Überschrift wäre eigentlich: Deutsche Milliardäre reichen lieber dem Faschismus die Hand, als ein bisschen mehr Steuern zu bezahlen. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

Umgang mit rechts: Verband der Familienunternehmer gibt offenbar Brandmauer zur AfD auf

Der Lobbyverband »Die Familienunternehmer« hat einen AfD-Vertreter eingeladen – und will die in großen Teilen rechtsextreme Partei nun politisch stellen. Ein »Kontaktverbot« sei damit aufgehoben, beri...

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Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database New paper by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social and myself, in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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You don’t “engage”, you amplify, mainstream and normalize. Don’t pretend you do this for anything else than 💰💰💰

mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages: osf.io/preprints/so...

Die Bürgergeld-Debatte dreht sich um Anreize und Druck. Die Realität: Das System verwaltet Armut – statt Sicherheit zu geben und Menschen in schwierigen Lebenslagen zu entlasten. ⤵️

Another year of great success and company at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 👏🏼 already looking forward to the next one 🫰🏼 @keonhison.bsky.social Andrew Zola & @janhelmdag.bsky.social in the pics from their final session

We'll be presenting our book at ESPAnet with a commentary by Anton Hemerijck. 🤩 My first book pitch session ever. #espanet2025

1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics: We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

I wish for a media that analyzes and contextualizes important events (without normalizing far-right actors and ideas) and a public that pays for that media.

Midsummer reading. This or Elizabeth Strout, Sally Rooney or Richard Powers? A fine outcome of @sustageable.fi @strateginen.bsky.social project with a great team.

The 2025 country-specific recommendations by the European Commission are out. Any explicit pension related recommendations (beyond Recovery and Resilience Fund commitments)? I read them all, so you don't have to 👇 (1/X) commission.europa.eu/publications...

2025 European Semester: Country Specific Recommendations / Commission Recommendations

2025 European Semester: Country Specific Recommendations / Commission Recommendations

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@cassandraengeman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. www.su.se/swedish-inst...

Cassandra Engeman appointed Associate Professor - Swedish Institute for Social Research

Cassandra Engeman, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at Stockholm University

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🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work 100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc. Apply by 31 May DM me for questions👨‍💻👩‍🏫🦸 tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy

Excited to share that I'm visiting the DSPI @dspi-oxford.bsky.social at the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk during Trinity term! Looking forward to engaging with researchers at DSPI and exchanging ideas. Many thanks to Kenneth Nelson for the invitation. Feel free to reach out to me if you’re around!

Many European politicians are trying to attract American researchers. However, sometimes their branding doesn't match their domestic higher education policies. So I've written a guide on recent political developments in Swedish academia for prospective immigrants. joenoonan.se/post/swedish...

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET New article with Lynn van Vugt, Bart Golsteyn, @levels.bsky.social and myself, in @cwfjournal.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @sofi.su.se

The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET

Young women are much more likely to be NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) than young men. Little is known about the extent to which institutional and policy contexts can shape the rela...

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This was an absolute pleasure! Grateful for the attentive audience and their feedback. Lots to do but highly motivated ✨ many thanks to my host @janhelmdag.bsky.social and my wonderful colleagues and friends @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @thaning.bsky.social @cassandraengeman.bsky.social until next time

Merve Uzunalioglu@merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · last yr.

Working with a Swedish forest view today! So happy to be at @sofi.su.se and excited to be presenting our new @reusilience.bsky.social work on the childcare gap tomorrow at the Social Welfare & Stratification Seminar. Send good wishes!

Nice to see the authoritarian attack on academia in the U.S. being fully commodified by academic and media institutions around the world. PR and sales on the back of targeted and vulnerable academics. 👏

Taxes are the membership fee of a decent, civilized community.

Jellona@jellona.bsky.social · last yr.

Being a right of center person and having spent years in another country with a class divide more pronounced than in Finland and a bigger wealth and income gap, I can relate. Half a decade in the US and I learned to LOVE TAXES.