@unil.bsky.social will host the LIVES International Research Days in Lausanne on 4-5 November 2026. Please do submit your work to our panel on family complexities, social policies, and social stratification, with @martinkolk.bsky.social and @rossellaciccia.bsky.social as experts. It'll be lovely!

@unil.bsky.social will host the LIVES International Research Days in Lausanne on 4-5 November 2026. Please do submit your work to our panel on family complexities, social policies, and social stratification, with @martinkolk.bsky.social and @rossellaciccia.bsky.social as experts. It'll be lovely!

Social Inequalities in the Timing of Childcare Use in Europe: https://osf.io/ju75w

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE? ✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective. ✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

And Excel file for 2023 to 2025 is here: osf.io/t7sw4/?fbcli...

International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2025: comparative tables 2023-2025

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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@leavenetwork.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We're pleased to announce the 21st International Review of Leave Policies & Research is now available! Covering 52 nations, this report provides valuable insights into parental leave policies globally. Access country reports and cross-country comparisons here: www.leavenetwork.org/annual-revie...

2 more days to apply for this 5-year research-focused postdoc position in my @erc.europa.eu team at @goetheuni.bsky.social on the politics of the educational cleavage!

Julian Garritzmann@garritzmannj.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

INVEST Research Flagship Centre@invest-flagship.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies

The best advice you'll likely get #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

Dear European colleagues - I'm on sabbatical, and if we make it to Fall I'm going to be in Italy Nov 4-6. I'd love to travel more and extend the trip. By then I'll have new things to say about pronatalism, as well as open social science and engagement etc.

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Alt: John Travolta looking lost in Europe

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Mothers earn less than fathers by midlife—even in the Nordics. 🇫🇮🇸🇪 In a new #INVESTblog, #JessicaNisén unpacks findings from a recent study on gender gaps in accumulated earnings. 👉 blogit.utu.fi/invest/2025/... #GenderEquality #NordicWelfareState #INVESTresearch @flux-consortium.bsky.social

Do mothers in the Nordic countries earn less than fathers up to midlife?

Jessica Nisén facilitated by the provision of comprehensive family policies in these countries. Such policies include job-protected and income-compensated family leave, universal access to affordable ...

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The motherhood penalty on poverty risk within couples in Germany: https://osf.io/ap9zb

Classic Vienna. -- Strudlhofstiege on a morning in Spring. #photography #Vienna

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate. Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

Interested in #eusilc? #SPSS, #Stata, and #Rstats routines to transform the raw data of EU-SILC into system files are now available for the most recent EU-SILC release 2024-release1: www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat... #eurostat

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Are you working on a paper using sequence analysis /SA related method and want to discuss some aspects of it? Consider our webinar series "work-in-progress edition"! Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.5th 2025. More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

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SocArXivBot@socarxivbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

The critical juncture of childbirth: turbulence in the employment trajectories of Mothers in Europe: http://osf.io/y4f3j/

🚨 Last call 🚨 Are you working on a paper, a grant proposal or an idea? And is your research in some way related to social policy? We’d love to have you present your work on April 4, 2025, at the ESPAnet Netherlands-Flanders Early Career Researchers’ Day in Leuven. espanet.org/espanet-neth...

Today Sequence Analysis Webinar at 4pm CET: Two presentations - Claus Hansen, Using sequence analysis in the description and analysis of short-term sickness absence – a longitudinal study. - Han Liu, Power Dynamics in Interracial Dating Relationships. Zoom link at sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

Fantastisches FIS-Forum des #DIFIS in Berlin mit tollen Beiträgen in unserem Panel zu Lebensläufen und Sozialpolitik, u.a. von Lina Tobler, Dennis Mayer, Christine Wimbauer und Maximilian Reichert @linatobler.bsky.social @mischewu.bsky.social

Join us next week, Oct Thursday, 17, 4 pm CET, for the next #SequenceAnalysis webinar! We’ll learn about two social-policy work-in-progress papers from @kunlee.bsky.social on retirement pathways & @mischewu.bsky.social on employment trajectories around childbirth and parental leave policies.

Some friends and I built a little game where you can date the candidates running in the Austrian election in a couple of days, and they will tell you what they think about some issues. You can then compare your opinions with those of the respective parties. Enjoy! wienerkreisel.itch.io/kandidate

KandiDate by WienerKreisel, Ludic Pondering

Lerne deine Spitzenkandidat:innen kennen #NR-24. Play in your browser

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👀Look at this graph! Very happy to be presenting my first paper(draft) on the structuring role of leave policy in the life course tomorrow at #ESPAnet2024 in Tampere 🧖