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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Grateful that the Swedish Research Council (VR) will fund my 🇸🇪 occupational change detective project with Roujman Shahbazian and Erik Bihagen @sofi.su.se Has the national occupational structure upgraded or polarised in recent decades, and how have these national trends played out locally? 🕵️

Has the Swedish labour market upgraded or polarised? Multiverse and spatial analyses 1990-2020

Although it is universally agreed that globalisation and technological change have profoundly reshaped the Swedish job structure over the past 30 years, there is no scientific consensus on whether these transformations have led to upgrading, characterised by strong growth of high-quality jobs, or polarisation, characterised by growth in low and high-quality jobs and decline in the middle. This yields a research question with implications for individual quality of life and Swedish
education and welfare policy: what has really happened to the Swedish job structure? By running multiverse analysis of labour market change in Sweden over the period 1990-2020 using population register and survey data, the project will first assess whether Swedish labour market change is best characterised by upgrading or polarisation, and systematically analyse the sources of contradiction in existing evidence. It will then analyse how these national transformations have
played out at the regional and local level, recognising that country-level trends can mask a diversity of regional experiences. The project will contribute important insight into how well the Swedish labour market has absorbed an increasingly qualified population and how the job structure is likely to evolve with further technological advances,
including generative AI.

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

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Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US

Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

To construct the OEP scale from 4-digit ISCO codes in Stata, install the crosswalk package then: crosswalk oep = isco88_to_oep(isco88) crosswalk oep = isco08_to_oep(isco08) Voilà

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡 Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale github.com/benjann/cros...

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GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding)

Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk

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Sergio Torrejón @sergiotorrejon.com · 19/12/2024

Occupational earning potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe. By Daniel Oesch, Oliver Lipps, @roujman.bsky.social, Erik Bihagen and @katymorris.bsky.social | publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Andreas Diemer @andreasmdiemer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thrilled to share that my paper “Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom” was accepted at JOLE earlier this year. Full article here👉 doi.org/10.1086/732300. A short 🧵 below - my first on 🦋! @jlaborecon.bsky.social @sofi.su.se #econsky 1/7

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Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom | Journal of Labor Economics: Vol 0, No ja

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Jacobs Foundation has opened a call for research fellowships! jacobsfoundation.smapply.org/prog/jacobs_...

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Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program - Jacobs Foundation

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Roujman Shahbazian @roujman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The 2024 Zetterberg Prize has been awarded to Per Engzell! Today at Uppsala University, he delivered a talk on how firms influence the intergenerational transmission of labor market advantages. Congratulations, Per!

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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Occupational Earning Potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe share.osf.io/preprint/E024F-FE9-A87 Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Yet occupations a #sociology

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Introducing the Occupational Earning Potential (OEP) scale... OEP is a linear scale that measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the overall earnings distribution #sociology #socsky #EconSky #polisky bsky.app/profile/soca...

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Roujman Shahbazian @roujman.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity? a) Does it happen after a certain age? b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state? These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

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