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Raffaele Grotti

@rafgrotti.bsky.social
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Associate professor of sociology at the University of Trento. Interested in dynamics of socio-economic inequalities over the life course and quantitative methods. And wine, of course.

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
No child poverty in Sweden? Think again! We found big differences in poverty rates, poverty gaps and poverty buffers between children of Swedish-born and foreign-born parents. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... With @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social
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Wooseong Kim (김우성) @wooseongkim.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Is overqualification a stepping stone for career progression among children of immigrants (G2) ? A new paper by @wooseongkim.bsky.social, @rafgrotti.bsky.social and @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social provide empirical evidence challenging this view (1/4) doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents New Data visualisation, published with @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social in @sociusjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
📢 Our new article on #poverty dynamics in early #childhood among #immigrants and natives comparing Finland and Sweden is published: doi.org/10.1007/s106... With @rafgrotti.bsky.social, Siddartha Aradhya and Outi Sirniö. @sustageable.fi @invest-flagship.bsky.social
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Poverty Dynamics in Early Childhood among the Native-Born Children of Immigrants in Sweden and Finland - European Journal of Population
European Journal of Population - This brief report delves into the poverty dynamics of second-generation immigrant (G2) children in Sweden and Finland, comparing them with their peers from the...
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
High childhood poverty in Sweden, but disproportionally among parents with a migration background. Important research and debate piece by Anna Tegunimataka, @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/K88...
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Stora ojämlikheter i hur svenska barn växer upp
DEBATT. I tider av hög arbetslöshet och ökade matpriser riskerar många familjer att drabbas av ekonomisk utsatthet. Men barnfattigdomen i Sverige är kraftigt oj
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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Still time to apply to the #ECSR2026 conference at Trinity College Dublin on June 15-17 @tcddublin.bsky.social organised by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie Abstract submission deadline: January 11! Submit an abstract: www.ecsr2026.net
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Publication alert 👏 Our members are all about situating stratification processes within institutional contexts, so seeing this chapter by our P. Barbieri out in "The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification" feels extra special. A must-read for social scientists! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Labor Market Institutions and Social Inequality
AbstractInstitutions are defined as formal and informal norms enforced with sanctions. From a sociological point of view, institutions address the distribu
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Raffaele Grotti @rafgrotti.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Thanks to Tim Liao for an inspiring methodological talk on 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 #SequenceAnalysis for the Hans Schadee Research #Methods Center at UniTN. Lots of ideas to take away - and many applications for the proposed methods (Liao 2021, 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘚𝘤𝘪).⁣⁣⁣ #LifeCourse #Sociology⁣⁣⁣
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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Acquiring citizenship is often seen as a milestone of integration. For once because it is assumed to lead to better job prospects. A new study on #Italy challenges this assumption. Read our #PopDigest led by scholars at @csisunitn.bsky.social 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mxd4rdk
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Stefani Scherer @stefanischerer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Does citizenship-acquisition improve labour market outcomes of immigrant? In the Italian context naturalised immigrants have higher socio-economic attainment and earnings. Yet, this is largely due to positive selection rather than the acquisition of citizenship itself: dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig...
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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our article on parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems appears in the most recent issue of @sfjournal.bsky.social. We find a longterm increase in SDQ score following parental union dissolution [1/2] academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
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Davide Gritti @davgritti.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🚨New paper out🚨 First evidence on the returns of citizenship acquisition in Italy 🔎 Naturalized do better, but not because of naturalization 🔗 OA in IOM doi.org/10.1111/imig... w/ @filippogch.bsky.social @rafgrotti.bsky.social ‬@stefanischerer.bsky.social ‬@zamberlanna.bsky.social #MigCitSky
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Now appearing in the most recent volume of @sfjournal.bsky.social, my paper with the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social on how family background shapes exposure to income volatility across the life course in 🇺🇸, 🇩🇪, and 🇩🇰! @erc.europa.eu #sociology academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
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Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States
Abstract. While stratification scholars have extensively examined intergenerational associations in lifetime income, they have mostly disregarded how famil
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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our WP on #poverty persistence in early childhood among immigrants, comparing Finland and Sweden. With @rafgrotti.bsky.social and others. One interesting sidenote: greater number of immigrants in SE might be behind higher child poverty levels compared to FI. su.figshare.com/articles/pre...
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Poverty dynamics in early childhood among the children of immigrants in Sweden and Finland
This brief report delves into the poverty frequency and persistence of second-generation (G2) children in Sweden and Finland, comparing them with their peers from the majority population. These are un...
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️ This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we couldn’t be more excited. ✨ Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news! For more spoilers, check our website: event.unitn.it/tn-square/ #TNSquare25
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TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
As we like to say - the CSIS delegation never stops! ✨ Today our @irenemichelin.bsky.social presented her work (w/ @rafgrotti.bsky.social & P. Barbieri) on the role of unemployment for wage mobility among overeducated workers in 🇩🇪 and 🇬🇧 at the CAREER Workshop in Amsterdam. Keep an eye on it!
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Busy week ahead! ✨ Alongside our Brown Bag Seminars, some of our members will join the Trento Economic Festival engage in activities outside the academic walls.
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
✨ Call for papers! ✨ Our @lucapiccoli.bsky.social is organising (w/ colleagues) a 2-days workshop on socio-emotional skills and education in September (11th-12th). If you would like to partecipate, don't hesitate to candidate sending your work by June 6th (deadline). You don't want to miss it!
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Day 1 of the Age-Period-Cohort Workshop - organised by our @rafgrotti.bsky.social - is a wrap! ✨ Key takeaway: the APC identification problem may be an unsolvable puzzle, but there are some tricks to get around it. Thanks to @juhoharkonen.bsky.social & J. van Leeuwen for sharing their expertise!
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Time for a late evening read! 📰 Today’s recommendation is a reflection from our P. Barbieri on the Trentino economy: what could be improved and why it so important to innovate it. Lots of food for thought! 🇮🇹 only: unitrento.telpress.it/news/2025/04...
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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 15/04/2025
Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/04/2025
Kombucha girl maybe meme.
On the left, frowny face: working on an important manuscript
On the right, intrigued: spending two hours to create a figure that came to my mind quite randomly
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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Our junior members are growing! ✨ Check out @beatricecaniglia.bsky.social (w/ @zamberlanna.bsky.social & P. Barbieri) paper on the gendered role of occupational characteristics for lifelong singlehood in 🇮🇹 !
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Round 2 of this week Brown Bag Seminar (#BBS) is a wrap! 🏔️ Today, it was @pfallesen.bsky.social turn to share his expertise and insightful contribution on research on the effect of divorce on children. We are left with one question: What are the counterfactuals? 💡 #BBS
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Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Published: "Parental social class and home-leaving in Italy: A changing landscape with persistent inequalities" by @elibrini.bsky.social, @gcorti.bsky.social, @francemente.bsky.social & @alderotti.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #OpenScience #sociology #demography
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New week, new Brown Bag Seminar! 🏔️ Kicking off our first #BBS session of the week, we had the pleasure of hosting @helenkowalewska.bsky.social ska.bsy.social and learning about the challenges women 50+ face when re-entering the workforce in the 🇬🇧.
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Francesca Zanasi @francemente.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
1/ 🚸 *Does grandparental involvement boost school grades?* Our new study (with @valeriabordone.bsky.social) explores whether grandchild care, financial support or contact impact grandchildren's school performance. Let's unpack the findings🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The effect of grandparental involvement on grandchildren's school grades: Heterogeneity by the extended family characteristics
As the early years are crucial for individuals' lifelong socioeconomic success, extensive research has examined the impact of non-maternal childcare o…
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Leo Azzollini @leoazzollini.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📈Poverty today in many OECD countries is higher than in the 1980s - but what would it be without demographic 🏘️changes? Find out in this paper with Richard Breen and Brian Nolan, just out in the Journal of European Social Policy. Spoiler: possibly even higher! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Do family background shape exposure to life cycle earnings volatility? With the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social, I have paper forthcoming in Social Forces that addresses this question with brother correlations in volatility exposure in Denmark, Germany, and the U.S. #sociology
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Juho Härkönen @juhoharkonen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Paper rejections enter the quantum revolutions age: our first rejected paper for 2025 (44 mins past midnight) may have been the last paper to be rejected by the journal in 2024.
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Mondays can be tough, so why not ease into the week with one of our divulgative reads? 🏔️ Today's features our P. Barbieri and dives into wages and productivity in Trentino. Which comes first, and what solutions could make a difference? 📈 Click to learn more! unitrento.telpress.it/news/2024/12...
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Interested about how digital skills impact job matching processes? Check out the latest paper by our P. Barbieri (w/ @zamberlanna.bsky.social , A. Tomelleri & A. Schizzerotto). You don't want to miss their experimental study on the 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹 and 🇬🇧 labour markets! irvapp.fbk.eu/it/publicati...
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Digital economy, technological competencies and the job matching process
Mastering digital skills is an increasingly important factor in the job matching process. This paper employs experimental methods to study how recruiters assess digital skills in the labour markets of...
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Thijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We're organizing a workshop in Amsterdam (26-27 May 2025)! Please submit if you're working on education, skills, or labor markets. The call for papers can be found below, more info on careerproject.eu/CAREER_works.... The deadline for submitting is December 20. Please spread the word ("retweet")
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
REMINDER 🎯🔝 Two great positions at @cedemografia.bsky.social (CED) & @uabbarcelona.bsky.social (Dept. of Sociology, UAB). Deadline is tomorrow: December 3rd, at 1pm (CET) Link: www.pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs
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Wooseong Kim (김우성) @wooseongkim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Do second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden struggle to match their educational achievements with suitable jobs? Find out in my latest study in the European Journal of Population. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1007/s106... #Demography #ImmigrantIntegration
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Overqualification Among Second-Generation Children of Immigrants in the Swedish Labour Market - European Journal of Population
Research on the children of immigrants born in the host country (G2) consistently reveals disparities between their educational achievements and labour market outcomes compared to the majority populat...
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 25/11/2024
Man I cannot endorse this abstract more
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Only 7 days left to apply! Apply & share! 👇 Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project! * Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona! * 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc * Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences * Deadline: December 3, 2024 Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs It follows [1/4]
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Raffaele Grotti @rafgrotti.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
🚨🚨Only one week left to apply to the Doctoral Programme in SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH at the University of Trento. 5 fully funded PhD scholarships. ⌛⌛DEADLINE May 14. More info here: sociologia.unitn.it/en/dottorato...
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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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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
NEW POSITION: Apply for this excellent position at Trinity College Dublin 🎇 "Assistant Professor in Sociology" (e.g., Quantitative Sociology, Life Course, Inequalities). Deadline: February 9th, 2024 Fantastic community, environment, city & great work conditions for career development!
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Stefani Scherer @stefanischerer.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
@agnevitali (still stuck in the other place) has a postdoc position @UniTrento to work on policies & fertility on the project 'Wellbeing and Fertility Policies' . Duration: 21 months; Salary: € 54.358; Deadline: 11/01/24; Description: t.ly/4lM4o; Apply here: t.ly/76-pS
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Elisa Brini @elibrini.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Check out our latest publication with @stefanischerer.bsky.social and Emmanuele Pavolini on @genus.bsky.social We delve into the impact of Early Childcare Education and Care services on first, second, and higher parity births in Italy 👇
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
New Faculty Position at Trinity College Dublin, Sociology! 💥 Assistant Professor in Sociology (Quantitative Sociology of Inequality and Life Course) Deadline: 9th February 2024 📣 Apply and/or share this Assistant Professorship call! Details on the call: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEU175/a...
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CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
'Life Course in Turbulent Times' at LIVES 🏔️ presenting on singlehood 🇮🇹 @beatricecaniglia.bsky.social @zamberlanna.bsky.social | childcare + skills 🇩🇪 @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @filippogch.bsky.social | childcare + female work 🇪🇺 @rafgrotti.bsky.social @davgritti.bsky.social @stefanischerer.bsky.social
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