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Maarten Hermans

@mhermans.net
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Sociologist, researcher, member @denktankminerva.be & @brispo-vub.bsky.social: labour relations, quality of work & open source data analysis.

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement?” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Cullen, Gilman (@juliagilman.bsky.social), and Roussille: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement?*
Abstract. This paper provides evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignet
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Noah Zucker @noahzucker.com · 23/09/2026
🚨 Workforces exposed to globalization and decarbonization are often overwhelmingly male. New article at @ajpseditor.bsky.social with @rickyclark.bsky.social and @rkhoban.bsky.social asks how layoffs of these men shape voting: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
AJPS article: "Breadwinner Backlash." Abstract: Low-skilled men have long been vulnerable to globalization, decarbonization, and other forms of economic disruption. When shocks are realized, women often increase their paid labor to compensate for men's loss of income. We study how layoffs of low-skilled men and concurrent shifts in workforce composition toward women affect voting. We theorize that this labor market rebalancing produces “nostalgic” coalitions of men and women that seek a return to male-breadwinner family models. Such attitudes fuel right-wing movements that pledge to protect conservative gender roles. Evidence from local labor markets and voting in the United States over the last two decades, as well as a longitudinal study tracking individual Americans over several decades, support this theory. These findings contribute a new gender-based account of the globalization backlash.
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Gina-Julia Westenberger @gjwestenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
3rd PhD baby is out in the world 🎉 Voting far right because your region is left-behind? Not necessarily. "Left-behind" regions — slower growth, higher unemployment, industrial decline — are said to drive votes for the radical right. My new paper in @actapolitica.bsky.social complicates this story.
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you @noamscheiber.bsky.social for such a thoughtfully reported @nytimes.com piece about our Class Gap research. Key point: the class gap is NOT an academia specific phenomenon. The cultural & social capital that come from class background matter in many elite settings.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wallonia. One of the few party systems left in Europe where there is no successful radical right party. In a post-industrial region where the radical right thrives in other countries. What's different in Wallonia? There is a full political and media cordon sanitaire around the radical right.
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Critiques of meritocracy are having a moment. In this review article, Mike Sauder and I look beyond the "we think it promotes equity, but it doesn't" argument.
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 01/09/2026
So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pay. The latest from @elisegould.bsky.social and Emma Cohn examines the economic impact of RTW 👇 1/7 #econsky
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Wages are lower in “right-to-work” states: These states have lower unionization rates and more anti-worker policies
Key takeaways: So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pa...
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Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 26/08/2026
De la symbolisation positive de la précarité chez les artistes: le cas des musicien·nes "bohèmes" "It’s Better to See Yourself as a Bohemian Than Poor: Justifying precarious accommodation as bohemianism among independent musicians" by J. Vachet & N. Bencherki 👀 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It’s Better to See Yourself as a Bohemian Than Poor': Justifying precarious
accommodation as bohemianism among independent musicians
Jérémy Vachet1, Nicolas Bencherki2
1 Audencia Business School, France
2 Université TÉLUQ, Canada and Audencia Business School, France
Abstract
This article shows that independent musicians justify and endure precarious living and working
conditions by discursively mobilizing the discourse of bohemianism. Drawing on an analytic
ethnography combining long-term participant observation and 60 interviews conducted in the
United States, France, and Sweden, we explore how musicians reconcile poor housing, unstable
income, and spatial insecurity with the perceived necessity of remaining in major urban centres.
Our analysis reveals that bohemianism operates as a discursive resource that aestheticizes
precarity, enabling musicians to cope, all the while obfuscating their situation as exploited
workers. The bohemian myth thus has performative effects: it normalizes sacrifice, contributes to
consenting to exploitation, and unwittingly facilitates gentrification by attaching symbolic value
to artists' living spaces, thus contributing to reproducing the very precarity artists seek to
mitigate. Crucially, the capacity to inhabit bohemianism is unevenly distributed, reflecting
differences in social class background
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social--on how Black migration via the Great Migration led northern cities to replace mayors with appointed city managers--has found a home at Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) ungated page proofs: drive.google.com/file/d/1bFea...
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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 17/08/2026
I built a clinical study report in Quarto: public CDISC pilot data to a branded Typst PDF and an HTML site from one source. Cover page, approval page, page X of Y, draft watermark, ICH E3 numbering. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-08-17-quarto-clinical-report/ #Quarto #Typst #RStats
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Turns out Sweden and Norway are just as ineffective at taxing billionaires as the US, France, Brazil, etc because of the use of personal holding companies, which the super-rich use to protect dividends & cap gains from taxation New from Ring, @seimseim.bsky.social, and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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999985Personal Holding Companies, Tax Progressivity, and Inequality Marius A. K. Ring, David G. Seim, and Gabriel Zucman
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Tax avoidance through personal holding companies has long been viewed as a key challenge for progressive income taxation. We exploit twenty years of administrative micro-data linking firms to owners in Sweden and Norway to analyze how the use of personal holding companies varies across the income distribution and to quantify its implications in a quasi-experimental setting. About half of the income of the top 0.1% is retained in personal holding companies defined, as in US tax law, as firms for which five or fewer owners own more than 50% of the stock and that derive more than 60% of income from investment income. Event studies of shocks to operational firms' value-added show that holding companies shield around half of dividend distributions from individual income taxation. Profits tend to remain in holding companies for long periods of time, with cumulative payout rates of 15%-20% over two decades for the highest income groups. Wealth taxes do not provide an effective backstop due to the low valuation (or exemption) of shares in private businesses. As a result, effective tax rates, all taxes included, fall from about 50% for the upper middle class to about 15%-20% among the highest-net-worth individuals. Accounting for income in holding companies erases half of the difference in the 1980-2020 rise of the top 1% fiscal income share between Nordic countries and the United States, where rules penalizing the use of holding companies have been in place since the 1930s.
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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🗳️ How does far-right terrorism affect support for the far right? ➡️ Studying anti-Roma attacks in Hungary, Simonovits et al. find that Jobbik gained 11-14 percentage points more support in attacked villages, with effects persisting and spreading to nearby areas doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Aris Martinelli @arismartinelli.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
✨💫📚✅ ➡️ Le rapport d’une étude que j’ai conduite sur les effets de la technologie sur la santé du personnel vient d’être publié par le Secrétariat d’Etat à l’économie (SECO)! Le voici :
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Les effets des nouvelles technologies pour la santé et la sécurité des travailleurs et travailleuses
Le développement rapide de l'intelligence artificielle et des technologies connectées transforme profondément le monde du travail. Lunettes de réalité augmentée, équipements de protection intelligents...
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Stijn van Kessel @stijntvankessel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our article on the discursive coherence of populist radical right parties' economic agendas is out now with @spsr.bsky.social (with Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Koen Abts, and @caterinafr.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1111/spsr...
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A Joint Venture? The Ideological Foundations of the Populist Radical Right's Economic Agenda Beyond Welfare Policies
Recently, the socio-economic agenda of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) has attracted growing scholarly interest, yet many studies focus specifically on positions on welfare policies. It is oft...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One of the most interesting things I’ve read in ages. Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late-medieval Low Countries. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries
relied on a community responsibility system that made
all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed
itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise
could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even
be imprisoned for debt. Although it is usually difficult
to assess how such sanctions were enforced in practice,
this study examines a unique account of a group of
creditors actively pursuing repayment. Their principal
debt collector was a monk of the Carthusian order who
travelled tirelessly throughout the Lower Rhine region in
search of inhabitants of the county of Holland. This monk-
turned-bounty-hunter primarily targeted merchants and
their goods but also sought to seize financial instruments
and real estate owned by Hollanders. Whilst existing
literature emphasizes reputation-based mechanisms to
explain polities’ access to credit, this evidence suggests
that sanction-based mechanisms were equally important:
reprisals proved effective in recovering debts. Consider-
ing that the community responsibility system exposed
merchants to sanctions, its survival into the early modern
period is quite striking. I argue that the creation of public
debt secured political and economic privileges that cities
valued more highly than the safety of their merchant
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚨 New article🔥 with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @joelardiaca.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social ➡️Climate action often enjoys broad public support... until governments propose specific measures. The key? Costs, benefits, and who pays 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Public support for climate policies: costs, redistribution, and ideological divides
Securing public support for climate policies remains a major challenge. Citizens’ perceptions of the costs, benefits, and distributive consequences of these policies are key factors shaping their a...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 31/07/2026
Here’s a piece I wrote for @aeon.co on some of the themes of my book: aeon.co/essays/are-w... #HistIR
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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Analyzing Denmark and the Netherlands, this article doi.org/10.1177/0022... by Mikkel Mailand y Frank Tros finds that employer associations largely favor maintaining existing welfare arrangements rather than pursuing major reforms. #IndustrialRelations #JIR2026
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “Who Pays for Unions?” by Dodini (@microsamonomics.bsky.social), Stansbury (@annastansbury.bsky.social), and Willen: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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NBER @nber.org · 25/07/2026
How firms adjust their political spending when public scrutiny rises, temporarily withdrawing contributions while preserving long-run influence, from Eric A. Baldwin, Takuma Iwasaki, John J. Donohue, and Charlie Grabois www.nber.org/papers/w35494
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/07/2026
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
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Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics
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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📢 PhD vacancy Are you interested in understanding how families, schools, and neighborhoods *jointly* shape educational outcomes? Eva Jaspers, @glorenz.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD candidate to work on this topic at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD: Contextual (dis)advantage and educational inequality
Do you want to understand how families, schools and neighbourhoods jointly produce school outcomes and educational inequality?
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very cool forthcoming ASR by @aeppli.bsky.social . Relevant for those interested in inequality, job quality, organizations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
hal.science/hal-05561965... Super papier de T. Guesdon, @ulojkine.bsky.social et J. Marie sur l'histoire de l'indexation des salaires. Un beau cas d’histoire sociale des salaires, qui rappelle que les catégories juridiques ne suffisent pas à expliquer la régulation salariale...
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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#statstab #574 When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes Thoughts: The "it's fine to analyse likert/ordinal data with t-test" camp is not doing themselves any favours #ordinal #likert #probit #regression link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Objectives We demonstrate the utility of ordered regression models for analyzing ordinal outcomes frequently encountered in criminology, comparing their predictive accuracy and estimation against conv...
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Helmer Stoel @helmerstoel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Schreef een essay voor de Volkskrant over vier recente boeken die het thema klasse adresseren. Takeaway: niet al het spreken over klassenverschillen heeft een kritische agenda.
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Kunnen we over klasse ook anders praten dan als lifestyle?
Jonge auteurs schrijven over de smaak, de stijl en de vakanties van de hogere middenklasse, en dat is niet vreemd: klasse is overal weer een thema. Waarom willen hun boeken dan toch geen klassenkritie...
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"in-hospital mortality increases for Black, but not White, patients as hospitals reach capacity... We identify rationing by wait times as a mechanism, documenting that sicker Black patients wait longer for care than healthier White patients at almost all capacity levels"
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 25/06/2026
What began as a joke candidacy in a staff committee election has turned into a test case for the ECB’s approach to internal free speech. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/ecb-...
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Maarten Hermans @mhermans.net · 24/06/2026
Nieuw onderzoek: hoe slechter de leidinggevende in zijn job, hoe meer werkdruk en mentale gezondheidsproblemen voor de werknemer. Inzichten die maar weinig doorsijpelen in HR-beleid. open.substack.com/pub/mhermans...
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Waarschuwing: je manager kan de gezondheid ernstig schaden
Hoe slechter de leidinggevende in zijn job, hoe meer werkdruk en mentale gezondheidsproblemen voor de werknemer.
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Spotlight on: the #RightToDisconnect New research from Agnieszka Piasna and Nastazja Potocka-Sionek brings together legal and sociological analysis to develop a deeper understanding of the current developments and regulation on #WorkingTime and the challenges of overconnectivity 💻 🔗 etui.org/4fw
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Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Out now and open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Right on time to present some follow up work at @ councilforeuropeanstudies.org/2026-confere... and @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social
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Austerity and Populism
A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A fast-growing literature links public service deprivation to electoral choice. But what happens when voters can decide on policies directly through referendums? Thrilled to present our WP on the long-run political effects of post office closures!🏤 Plz join our #EPSS2026 panel on 6/18, 10:50am, 3b
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Very happy to see this out on perceptions of welfare deservingness for different categories of migrants, together with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and Samir Negash @fggaleiden.bsky.social, open access in EPSR:
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The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science @mpips.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
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Trigger Points
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
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Diliara Valeeva @diliaravaleeva.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New paper @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social @eaizenberg.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social Are firms more active lobbyists in Washington? Many theories in PoliSci suggest they are. But we find remarkable stability. The structure of business lobbying did not change much over the past 20y cup.org/4dykWuq
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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The Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Abstract. This article uses inquiry into the medical subfield of industrial medicine in the early twentieth-century United States to build on recent work in the history of occupational safety and heal...
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Maarten Hermans @mhermans.net · 04/06/2026
Mamdani's executive order was even featured on the public broadcasters' kids news here in Belgium, to great interest of my 6yo. He is raising the bar for politicians across all age bands and the Atlantic ;-).
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Maarten Hermans @mhermans.net · 03/06/2026
4 op 10 van de 🇧🇪 werknemers ervaart dat op hun werk vrouwen minder loon krijgen voor hetzelfde werk. Meer loontransparantie is broodnodig, breed gesteund, en belangrijk voor degelijk HR-beleid 👇. #paytransparency open.substack.com/pub/mhermans...
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Hoge nood en steun voor loontransparantie in België
4 op 10 Belgische werknemers ervaart dat op hun werk vrouwen minder loon krijgen voor hetzelfde werk. Meer loontransparantie is broodnodig en breed gesteund.
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Eurofound @eurofound.europa.eu · 28/05/2026
📣 Just published: Constrained flexibility: Involuntary non-standard employment in the European Union Around 9% of workers in the EU are in involuntary non-standard employment, including temporary and part-time roles taken because no alternatives are available. Read more: ow.ly/uguI50Z57tM
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Samenleving & Politiek @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#ANALYSE Belgische werknemers gaan 1 op 3 ziektedagen werken, en dat verdient met zoveel langdurig zieken meer beleidsaandacht. www.sampol.be/2026/05/van-...
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Van ziek gaan werken naar langdurige ziekte
Belgische werknemers gaan 1 op 3 ziektedagen werken, en dat verdient met zoveel langdurig zieken meer beleidsaandacht.
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Maarten Hermans @mhermans.net · 25/05/2026
De nieuwe @eurofound.europa.eu EWCS-data tonen hoe breed verspreid en ongelijk verdeeld presenteïsme onder 🇧🇪 werknemers is. Met zoveel langdurig zieken verdient dit meer (beleids)aandacht. open.substack.com/pub/mhermans...
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Van ziek gaan werken naar langdurige ziekte
Belgische werknemers gaan 1 op 3 ziektedagen werken, en dat verdient met zoveel langdurig zieken meer (beleids)aandacht.
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
📣 Just out: our latest analysis finds compelling evidence that #WorkplaceDemocracy and the health of democracy in society are deeply intertwined 🧵👇
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thinking about the extraordinary legacy of David Rosner- historian, public health scholar, and one of the most important voices on how corporate power, industrial pollution, and structural inequality shaped American health and lives. 🧵
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David Rosner | Guests | BillMoyers.com
David Rosner, a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, studies how structural inequities impact
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IRES @iresfr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🔴 PUBLICATION - Le numéro de La Revue de l'IRES sur Sens du travail et syndicalisme, coordonné par Thomas Coutrot et Léonie Hemdat est désormais en ligne sur ires.fr/publications...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New ASR paper finds no effect of state right-to-work laws on employment or number of business establishments (1946-2019). Argues that state spillovers, such as tax breaks in non-right-to-work states, explain the non-effect of right-to-work. gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Wim Van Lancker @wimvanlancker.be · 11/05/2026
Nuance (sorry! 😬) bij bericht dat 'kwart van langdurig zieken onterecht een uitkering kreeg'. De cijfers zeggen niets over 'onterechte uitkeringen'. Wel dat bij een steekproef werd geoordeeld dat 25% van twee specifieke groepen in invaliditeit terug kan werken. 🧵 www.standaard.be/politiek/kwa...
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Kwart van langdurig zieken kreeg onterecht uitkering, bewijzen twee nieuwe steekproeven
Na een militaire parade amper die naam waardig, kondigde Vladimir Poetin aan dat de oorlog in Oekraïne “naar zijn einde gaat”. Hoewel zijn vredessignaal verwarring zaait, gaan er binnen de Europese Unie stemmen op om gesprekken met Moskou voor te bereiden.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
✌🏾Today is #Liberation Day — the day people defeated fascists. But freedom wasn’t handed over — it was fought for. 85 years ago, 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ workers went on #strike in Belgium against Nazis - their courage paved the road to liberation. This is the story of the "Strike of 100,000". Follow the thread🧵
Red and black EPSU graphic reading “The strike of the 100,000, 10–18 May 1941,” over a historic crowd image.
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New QJE paper on France’s mandated profit-sharing: distributing excess profits to workers raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little effect on investment or productivity. Gains mainly go to lower-skilled workers; high-skilled pay unaffected.
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