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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Higher Education, Higher Equality @danilok.bsky.social's new #Socius research compares resource inequality and student segregation at universities in #Brazil and #Chile, arguing that resource concentration creates greater disparities in #educationalattainment. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · 12/08/2026

📢 Job opening at the LISER & @lisdata.bsky.social 🔹Research Assoc. in #Economics, #Sociology or #PoliticalSciences The (LIS)²ER project is a joint initiative fostering collaborative research projects, under supervision of senior researchers from both institutions. 🔗 jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New LIS working paper (co-authored with Rosa Mulè) is out! Inequality Among Women: Is There Variety? www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/9...

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Institute of Sociology · University of Bern @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We're hiring! Data Manager (80–100%) at the TREE panel study, University of Bern 🗓️Apply by 19 April 26 | Start 1 May 26 (or by agreement) 🔗More info: jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...

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Bright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026

Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc...

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New at ESR! #OpenAccess! Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #ARogne #TKnutsen @modals.li revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf060

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A college on every cape: gender equality, gender segregation and local college openings

Abstract. The expansion of higher educational systems in Western countries in the latter half of the 20th century is central to the reversal of the gender

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Martin Huber @causalhuber.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📢 Last call! Register for the #Fribourg #WinterSchool in #DataAnalytics & #MachineLearning (📅 Feb 2–13, 2026) until Jan 25. Join us on site in Fribourg or online for data analytics, predictive/causal machine learning, and deep learning, using Python, R, Julia, & KNIME: www.unifr.ch/appecon/en/w...

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Further education | Chair of Applied Econometrics and Policy Evaluation | University of Fribourg

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The UK LIS Satellite Office is pleased to announce that LIS data can now be securely accessed through the SafePod Network (SPN), a key channel for expanding the use of LIS data. Eligible UK-based LIS researchers can now access LIS data from participating universities across the SPN in the UK 📊

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

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Jennie Brand @jenniebrand.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Submit your paper to the RC28 summer meeting in NYC! Thank you NYU organizers @siweicheng.bsky.social and Mike Hout! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

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Valentina Ausserladscheider @vapunkt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🔔The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 funded doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities to do your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor. ❗Application deadline: March 2, 2026 👇Check eligibility here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

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Life Course & Social Stratification

Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...

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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg @lisdata.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

▶️ Send your research proposal (up to 3 pages), contact details, description of the desired duration, period of stay, and a CV to lis2er@lisdatacenter.org Further details can be found on our website www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg @lisdata.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

📍 Period of Stay: 2–8 weeks, anytime between March and December 2026 (excluding mid-July–mid-August) 📅 Important dates: Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026 Notifications of result: February 15, 2026 Earliest start: March 1, 2026

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Great opportunity if you have projects that use LIS data. You will be hosted by really nice and helpful people!

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Your new year party is over. It is time to complete.

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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

📘 Der neue INEQ 2-Jahresbericht ist da! Im INEQ 2-Jahresbericht 2024/2025 ziehen wir Bilanz über unsere Arbeit der vergangenen zwei Jahre – von Forschung über Lehre bis hin zu Veranstaltungen. 📄 Der Bericht ist ab sofort auf unserer Website verfügbar: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_jahresb... #INEQ

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Golden opportunity for anyone interested in labor markets, inequality, orgs in the US context

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Institute of Sociology · University of Bern @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎉 New TREE data available on SwissUbase! The first TREE cohort follows individuals from compulsory school in 2000 through education and employment up to 2019. A unique longitudinal resource for research on educational pathways and careers in Switzerland. 👉 doi.org/10.48573/fdq...

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Three days left to send interesting abstracts tackling various topics of social policy to socialpolicy.ch, a swiss based diamond open access journal.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Immensely proud to see two newish publications out that begun their life as masters theses a wee while ago... links below

The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe

How do opportunities for intergenerational mobility depend on where you live? We address this question using European Social Survey data, studying the association between parents’ and children’s occupation, and how it varies by region of residence. Absolute mobility, largely driven by shifts in occupational structure, differs from relative mobility, which reflects the extent to which opportunities are equal across social origins. Capital regions emerge as hubs of absolute, but not necessarily relative, mobility. Absolute mobility correlates with human capital, labor market, demographic, and spatial factors. In contrast, relative mobility is primarily shaped by economic disparities between social classes. Greater inequality entails less mobility, even comparing different places within a country.

How robust are country rankings in educational mobility?

We investigate the impact of analytical choices on country comparisons in intergenerational educational mobility using a multiverse approach. A literature survey gives rise to 2,880 plausible ways of measuring educational mobility, which we apply to European Social Survey data from 16 countries. Although some countries consistently appear at the top or bottom of the mobility rankings, most show substantial variation. Beyond our methodological contribution, we report two substantive findings. First, some countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system but must be sought elsewhere, such as the labor market. Second, the choice of parameter—such as regression coefficients, correlations, or categorical measures—is the single most influential factor that shifts country rankings. As different parameters carry distinct theoretical meanings, researchers should treat parameter choice not merely as a robustness check but as an opportunity to test and refine competing theories.

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Thanks to Social Policy Blog for posting our blog and for pointing readers interested in the politics of #fathers' leave to the original article: Martin Gurín & Janet C. Gornick, 2024, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 40:3. @stone-lis.bsky.social @paidleaveforall.bsky.social

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Marie Sautier @mariesautier.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Last days to send your semi-plenary proposal for the next SSA Congress in Fribourg. ⛳

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Institute of Sociology · University of Bern @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Between privilege and merit: Selection criteria and inequality in access to prestigious fields of study Talk by Dr. Claudia Finger (University of Bern) 📅 10/12/2025 🕓 16:15–17:45 📍 Room B 202, Fabrikstrasse 8, University of Bern More info: Research Colloquium Program (link in bio)

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Martin Huber @causalhuber.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🚀 A new version of our causalweight package for the statistical software R is online, containing some of the latest causal machine learning methods for the estimation of treatment effects: www.rdocumentation.org/packages/cau... #CausalInference #CausalAnalysis #MachineLearning

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causalweight package - RDocumentation

Various estimators of causal effects based on inverse probability weighting, doubly robust estimation, and double machine learning. Specifically, the package includes methods for estimating average tr...

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

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Institute of Sociology · University of Bern @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Gender Role Attitudes and Related Behaviors Among Refugees in Germany Talk by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen (University of Bamberg) 📅 03/12/2025 🕓 16:15–17:45 📍 Room B 202, Fabrikstrasse 8, University of Bern More info: Research Colloquium Program (link in bio)

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Some quick takeaways from this session on my experience editing sociology journals, what drives decisions, what reviewers actually do, and what authors should know.

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Important takeaway for funding bodies ...

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🎉 Wir feiern 10 Jahre INEQ! Bei unserer Jubiläumsfeier vor rund einem Monat haben wir erstmals unser Video zu „10 Jahren INEQ“ gezeigt – jetzt ist es auch online auf short.wu.ac.at/ineq_10_jahre verfügbar. 🎥 Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die Teil dieser Reise waren – und sind. #INEQ

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LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · 17/11/2025

📢 Call for Papers 📢 💡 19th Winter School on #Inequality & #SocialWelfare Theory (IT19) Jan. 6-10, 2026 in Alba di Canazei. 🤝 Organized by @cesifo.org, the University of Verona & @liser.lu ⏳ Application deadline: Nov. 27 🔗 Click to discover the confirmed speakers + more: liser.lu/events/canaz...

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children

Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same

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LISER's Labour Market department @liser-lm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Kick-off of today's workshop: Who’s afraid of #Gender? Lessons for research, #PolicyAdvocacy and action 🗣️ Prof. David Paternotte begins w/ an introductory lecture “Navigating [through/with] gender in society” ℹ️ Discover the event program: www.liser.lu/events/Gende... #GenderSky #Econsky

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Marie Sautier @mariesautier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Swiss Sociological Association Congress 2026- Fribourg 🇨🇭 Sep 2–4 We are welcoming workshop proposals until Nov 15. Semi-plenaries until Dec 15 ssa-congress26.sciencesconf.org @sggfsseg.bsky.social @unifr.bsky.social @dessociales.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Deadline: Monday (Nov 3). The Stone Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is hiring. Applications are open for two postdocs - one focused on #mobility and #poverty; the other on #wealth. Consider spending two years with us in🎶"New York New York (So Nice they Named it Twice)"!

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Kohli Foundation for Sociology @kohli-sociology.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh... 📆 Deadline 16 November 2025

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