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Laila Schmitt

@lailaschmitt.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher @iabnews.bsky.social. Sociologist. Research on Social Inequality, Labour Markets, Inequality Perceptions, and Gender 👨👩🪙⚖️

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Returning to the Venice Workshop of Analytical Sociology this week meant a lot to me--smart talks, kind people, and lots of cool ideas. Shout out to the lovely community on Bluesky @kauspurg.bsky.social @marklutter345.bsky.social @verenaseibel.bsky.social @sawalzenbach.bsky.social ...
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Andreas Peichl @apeichl.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Our paper "Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States" is finally out in the European Economic Review! @paulhufe.net
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Laila Schmitt @lailaschmitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm thrilled to announce that I joined the IAB Hesse! 🥳💚 Looking forward to advising the Regional Directorates and the Federal Employment Agency, and continuing my labour market research. It is an honour to work with such a community of expert researchers. Please reach out if you'd like to connect!
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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨New paper in SER🚨 Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux #Sociology #Demography #Inequality
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As @oxfam-de.bsky.social also argues, equalizing gender gaps among billionaires is the second-best solution. Abolishing billionaires the first. Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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Männer, Milliarden, Macht: Wie die fehlende Besteuerung von Vermögen Geschlechterungleichheit zementiert
Weltweit und auch in Deutschland besitzen Frauen deutlich weniger Vermögen als Männer. Im Bereich der Milliardenvermögen ist der sogenannte Gender Wealth Gap besonders ausgeprägt. Für eine geschlechte...
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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨 Applications are still open for the rest of the week 🚨 (full review begins Monday, Jan 20)
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
We're hiring. Join our team
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Please join us (in person or virtually) for the opening of the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI). Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time. Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Measuring inequality
“We will be relevant”: Sociologist Fabian Pfeffer about the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI) at LMU, which officially opens this week.
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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
I am happy that my paper with Sabine Düval is now published. We use survey experiments & causal mediation analyses to explore gender ideologies & norms underlying the division of housework. We argue that traditional ideologies may have been overestimated in previous research...
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class
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Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion - Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage, Maren Toft, 2024
Wealth inequalities are increasingly prominent in contemporary societies but they have not been systematically addressed by sociological class analysis. However...
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
🚨 Job Announcement: Two Positions in Our Administrative Leadership Team 🚨 Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München. Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread: /1
Komm in unser Team
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Stefan Liebig @stefanliebig.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Am Arbeitsbereich Sozialstrukturanalyse und Survey-Methodologie @socfub.bsky.social ist eine Postdoc-Stelle für 3,5 Jahre zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist: 30.9.2024 #Soziologie Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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PS-SOZSTRUKTUR-WiMi-2024
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
It’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/n
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The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
Earnings 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...
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/ @dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
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Spring School on perceptions of wealth (inequality)
SCHOOL ON PERCEPTIONS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY
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Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
The life course approach: an interdisciplinary paradigm in family research often too abstract to guide hypotheses on family life variation. New Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @robgruijters.bsky.social & Anette Fasang -> a life course theoretical framework with case studies doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective We propose a life course theoretical framework for understanding variation in family life courses between birth cohorts (historical time), societies (place), and social groups (social loca...
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Introducing ISI, the new Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research: www.lmu.de/isi (for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...) We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1
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Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research
ISI is a research center for the study of social inequality. It connects researchers across the world and supports the next generation of inequality scholars.
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5
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Barbara Binder @barbarabinder.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
OnlineFirst in #JESP: András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth and I show that using a floating poverty threshold dramatically underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272 Thread 👇👇👇
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Laila Schmitt @lailaschmitt.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Have you also been looking for literature on the new DiD vs. TWFE estimators in Sociology? Below is a paper that provides an intuitive explanation along with simulations! 👇
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Laila Schmitt @lailaschmitt.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Super excited to be part of this group! And really looking forward to Montreal!
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Moris Triventi @mtriventi.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
💥We are recruiting! Two exciting positions (post-doc or post-grad) available in my recently started ERC-Consolidator Grant "EDUPOL - Education policies that work: A context-sensitive ‘big data’ approach" Deadline: 9/02/24 More info below 👇
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Jan Heisig @jpheisig.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.
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3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (f/m/x) / ID 242
The research units Skill Formation and Labor Markets (Director: Professor Heike Solga) and Health and Inequality (Head: Professor Jan Paul Heisig) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) are...
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Daria Tisch @dariatisch.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Wir freuen uns sehr, einen der Anerkennungspreise im Rahmen der AK Essaypreis-Ausschreibung zum Thema „Überreichtum“ gewonnen zu haben. Danke an Daniel Mayerhoffer und @jansg.bsky.social für die tolle Zusammenarbeit. Unser Essay findet sich hier:
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Daniel Witzani-Haim @dahaim.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Die @arbeiterkammer.bsky.social hat heuer den ersten AK Essaypreis zum Thema "Überreichtum" ausgelobt. Gefragt waren Essays 📚, die die gesellschaftlichen und demokratiepolitischen Herausforderungen von Überreichtum thematisieren. 1/5
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AK-Essaypreis zum Thema „Überreichtum“ - Arbeit&Wirtschaft Blog
Das reichste Prozent in Österreich hat fast die Hälfte des gesamten privaten Vermögens. Das bedeutet eine enorme Konzentration von Macht & Einfluss. Die AK Wien hat erstmals einen mit 5.000 Euro do...
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Laila Schmitt @lailaschmitt.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Returned from an insightful Venice Workshop! Kudos to @kalf.bsky.social for 👨‍🏫 our inequality and taxation research with M Mühlböck and B Kittel. Thanks to LMU Munich and Academy of Sociology for having us at VIU! Engaging discussions, excellent presentations and sunny weather made it memorable ✨🔔!
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Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc
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Luisa Wallossek @lwallossek.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
📢 I am on the academic job market #EconSky Fields: public economics, applied microeconomics Interests: taxation, gender, policy design luisa-wallossek.com My job market paper studies the marriage earnings gap (co-authored with the great @elenahero8.bsky.social ) Full thread below 👇 1/
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail!
Picture of the sun rising over fogEmail announcement
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
New preprint on #Spatial Data Analysis 🌍 A hands-on introduction to spatial #ResearchMethods such as spatial lag, error, and lag of X models for spatial insights. Example on #LondonHousePrices 🏡💰 osf.io/preprints/so... Comments and Feedback welcome 🤗 #SpatialDataAnalysis #SocialScience #Housing
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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
New in AJS! @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social, Anette Fasang & I investigate a hotly debated question: are Millennials worse off than their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers? We argue that this is a misleading question. Why? See ⬇️ or read www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Maximilian Longmuir @smaexie.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
IZA under Armin Falk.... @simonjaeger.bsky.social departs. Maybe they should rename IZA into Nora-Szech-Institute and start rethinking their plans from there.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
New paper on the Social Impact of #ExtremeWeather🌪️ in @europeansocieties.bsky.social 🙌 It unpacks the link between extreme weather events, climate beliefs, and behaviour. Spoiler alert: belief shifts happen, but actions? 🤔 Check out OA: doi.org/10.1080/1461... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
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Daria Tisch @dariatisch.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
@schechtlm.bsky.social und ich zeigen (osf.io/preprints/so...), dass das deutsche Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuerrecht in Verbindung mit geschlechterspezifischem elterlichen Transferverhalten zu einem Gender-Tax-Gap führt. Erklärt hier: www.zeit.de/geld/2023-10... #GenderSky #Sociology
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Erbschaftssteuer: Warum Frauen weniger erben und trotzdem mehr Steuern zahlen
Egal, wie reich Frauen werden, Männer sind im Schnitt reicher. Das liegt nicht nur am Gender-Pay-Gap, sondern auch daran, wie die deutsche Steuer Frauen diskriminiert.
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Fantastic Award!
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Inequality in housing is getting more attention. But how should we fight it? In a new video with Kathy Velikov & students, we describe the racial injustice of the US housing system and Detroit-based activists & scholars help us sketch alternatives www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iOE... #RealUtopia /1
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Housing Inequality and Justice
In a new video focusing on housing and wealth inequality, University of Michigan researchers Kathy Velikov and Fabian Pfeffer explore these divides while sug...
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