Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenOlivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Others claim that cities have the mysterious virtue of enhancing workers’ productivity. In this Nature Cities paper, our COIN team offers a simpler explanation. These cities are 'financial cities', where top earnings are inflated by rents in the financial labor market www.nature.com/articles/s44... 152
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 25276106
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenThijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Extremely happy that my project got funded with a Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu. The project is called FIRMS, and with a team, I'll study how the workplace/firm affects inequality in careers. We'll use register data to trace the careers of millions of workers. 1/3 www.uva.nl/en/content/n...uva.nlNine UvA researchers receive ERC Consolidator GrantsThe European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui... 12967
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenRosa Cheesman @rosacheesman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value addedpnas.orgThe genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences 24620
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025👥 More immigrant coworkers and diversity improve minority retention — but may reinforce workplace segregation 🌐 Assimilation: coworker effects weaker in the second generation 💼 Policy implication: turnover shapes workplace composition — it’s not just about who is hired Link: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...doi.orgBlending in or moving on? Immigrant coworkers, assimilation, and employee turnoverAbstract. How does the presence of immigrant coworkers shape the likelihood that minority employees stay or leave their jobs? This study uses linked employ 010
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025📌 Key finding: More immigrant coworkers → lower exit rates among immigrant workers, small increase in exits among majority workers 🔑 Why? Effects are strongest when coworkers are coethnics, when they have the same skills, and when immigrant coworkers are represented among top earners 120
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025🚨 New paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social: Blending In or Moving On? @enlar.bsky.social @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, and I study how the share of immigrant coworkers affects whether immigrants stay or leave their job. Here’s what we find 👇 Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 1143
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Inequalities also vary by field. ⚖️ Law and 🩺 medicine stand out as the most selective by family background, with about 70% of faculty having university-educated parents. These fields show especially limited representation from low-SES families. 0133
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Nearly 40% of professors come from families without university-educated parents. But across cohorts, professors from low-SES families have become less common in more recent generations. 1197
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025But these gaps are explained by who completes a PhD — not by barriers after the PhD. Once individuals hold a doctorate, parental background — whether measured by education, earnings, or professor titles — no longer predicts who becomes a professor. 1173
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The likelihood of becoming a professor rises sharply when considering both parental education and parental earnings together. Children from high-education, high-income families are vastly overrepresented in the professoriate. 1153
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school. • Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else. 34711
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 38235
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenKat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026 02414
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!nature.comPay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobsRecognizing foreign qualifications and providing language training could improve immigrants’ access to better-paying positions. 0145
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Two awards in one week to our "Great Separation" article in AJS, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot! 050
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenAndrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors. 1102
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenRC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... 0235
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenNature @nature.com · 23/07/2025Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs go.nature.com/40ripuFgo.nature.comImmigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - NatureData from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs. 0255
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Danmarks Radio, Denmarkdr.dkNyt studie: Indvandrere tjener mindre og har sværere adgang til højtlønnede jobIndvandrere tjener gennemsnitligt 9,2 procent mindre end etniske danskere. I andre lande i Europa og Nordamerika er lønforskellen højere. 000
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025de Volkskrant, Netherlands @volkskrant.nlvolkskrant.nlMigranten krijgen minder betaald dan Nederlanders, ook bij precies hetzelfde werkImmigranten verdienen gemiddeld 15 procent minder dan vergelijkbare Nederlanders zonder migratieachtergrond. Ook als ze precies hetzelfde werk bij dezelfde werkgever doen, krijgen zij 5 procent minder... 100
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025El Pais, Spain @elpais.comelpais.comLos inmigrantes en España ganan un 29% menos que los trabajadores localesLa disparidad salarial entre extranjeros y nativos en suelo español es la más abultada entre las nueve economías desarrolladas que ha analizado Nature 100
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany @faznet.bsky.socialfaz.netZuwanderungs-Lohnlücke: Erstmals ergründet eine Studie die Ursachen genauerSelbst mit gleichen Qualifikationen verdienen Migranten weniger als Einheimische. Das liegt aber weniger an einer direkten Diskriminierung bei der Bezahlung, zeigt eine neue Studie. 100
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenIAB @iabnews.bsky.social · 17/07/2025📍 Immigrants to Europe and North America earn, on average, 17.9% less than natives, as they struggle to gain access to jobs in higher-paying industries, occupations and companies. Three-quarters of the pay gap between the two correspond to a lack of access to high-paying jobs for immigrants. (1/4) 111
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!theconversation.comImmigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s whyImmigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste. 1167
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025...but interestingly Canada behaves as one would expect if positive selection on education (i.e., gaps decrease slightly in model without adj for education). Also, between-country variation in hourly wages is relatively similar to annual earnings pattern. 020
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Yes, I agree--we've been digging into it as best we can. Models without adjustment for education (+/- geographic region of employment) is found in Ext Data Fig 8 (plus SI tables 33-35). Does change main pattern that much... 220
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025@oliviergodechot.bsky.social @msafi.bsky.social @dont-d.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social @martinhallsten.bsky.social @lippenyi.bsky.social ...and István Boza, Marta Elvira, Halil Sabanci, Malte Reichelt, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Erik Vickstrom, and Trond Petersen. 031
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025This work is done together with 15 colleagues within the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN), based in 10 countries and spanning 18 different universities and research institutions. Full paper available as open access! 9/9nature.comImmigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - NatureData from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs... 141
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025In countries where we can track workers as they change jobs over time, panel data analyses (AKM models) show that immigrants’ lack of access to high-paying jobs is attributable to segregation both in the job-level earnings premiums that employers pay and segregation based on worker skill. 8/9 110
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Moreover, analyses using hourly wages instead of annual earnings in the countries where this information is available align with our main findings. The overall patterns are qualitatively similar for men and women, and high- and low-skill workers. 7/9 110
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Given that we identify unequal job sorting as the central bottleneck behind the pay disparities, our findings point to the importance of policies aimed at reducing barriers for access to well-paid jobs and employers. 6/9 110
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025We find that immigrants from all non-Western origin groups face substantial overall gaps but considerably smaller within-job gaps. The largest gaps are found for immigrants from Sub-Saharan African and MENA countries. For immigrants from Europe and North America, gaps are considerably smaller. 5/9 110
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025While the size of overall pay gaps differ notably across destination countries, the qualitative pattern where between-job segregation trumps within-job inequality by a wide margin is found in all countries. In places with data on children of immigrants, we find strong generational progress. 4/9 110
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025For the second generation, we find strong economic progress among children of immigrants--where total gaps are less than 6% and within-job pay gaps below 2%. However, the relative contribution of job sorting vs within-job inequality is similar. 3/9 110
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025On average across all countries, immigrants earn 18% less than natives with similar qualifications in the same local labor market, while the within-job pay gap is less than 5%. Thus, 3/4 of the total gap is due to between-job segregation, with the remaining 1/4 reflecting within-job unequal pay. 2/9 131
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9nature.comImmigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - NatureData from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs... 46729
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults. 0146
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenAndreas Kotsadam @kotsadam.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Stay tuned for much much more. Sad story. 075
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenSocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Same Neighborhood, Same Employer? Residential Networks and Workplace Concentration Among Immigrants: osf.io/bvues_v1 032
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenPaul Starr @starrprospect.bsky.social · 12/02/2025On the loss of a model of intellectual integrity and courage—Christopher Jencks. He showed us how to wade into troubled waters and come out the stronger for it. @theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...prospect.orgThe Exemplary Radical SkepticChristopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died. 13210
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Accidentally download the appendix of an econ working paper: 317522
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Children of immigrants access higher-paying, less immigrant-dense workplaces due to shifts in education, occupation, and industry. Our findings reveal a sharp decline in workplace segregation as they advance into the mainstream economy, highlighting the role of assimilation in skill profiles. 020
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Our study identifies key factors driving workplace segregation for both immigrant generations: education, occupation, industry sorting, having an immigrant manager, and the share of immigrant neighbors. Both skill-based sorting and network processes shape immigrant–native workplace segregation. 120
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We find that immigrants are overrepresented in low-wage workplaces with many with immigrant coworkers, especially from the same country. For children of immigrants, there's a strong convergence toward natives in workplace distribution regarding coworker salaries and immigrant composition. 100
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024New paper out in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Mats Lillehagen on workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation! We study why immigrants concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces and whether their native-born children gain better access to workplaces in the mainstream economy. #sociologyacademic.oup.comEntering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilationAbstract. Why do foreign-born immigrant workers often concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces? Do immigrants’ native-born children—who typically 1132
Reposted by Are Skeie HermansenOlivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 24/08/2024It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/njournals.uchicago.eduThe Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is... 13621
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/04/2024The application deadline for our PhD course on organizations and inequality at the University of Oslo is coming up this Sunday (April 21). If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them! 000