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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 02/10/2026

The debate around the triple lock goes beyond cost 💷 Prof Tim Vlandas, from @dspi-oxford.bsky.social, examines what proposed pension reforms could mean for economic growth ⬇️ bit.ly/3W3AoI4

Graphic titled “Why the triple lock pension reform makes its political problem worse”, featuring Professor Tim Vlandas of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention. It includes his quote: “Governments need growth to cope with the consequences of ageing. But older voters, who increasingly decide elections, are insulated from economic stagnation, so governments have less incentive to pursue growth.” A photograph of a metal chain secured with a padlock appears at the bottom.

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

prize fellowships are out: two three-year postdoc positions in sociology, time and resources to carry out independent research projects with minimal distraction. Deadline 21 September. Details: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

TODAY! ▶️"The EU Anti-Poverty Strategy: A Discussion with the European Commission and an Expert Panel." 2pm UK / 3pm CEST via Zoom as part of the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group. Join us to to discuss the Commission's new strategy to reduce poverty in the EU. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-e...

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The EU Anti-Poverty Strategy: A Discussion with the European…

Afterward, two experts in European social policy – Bea Cantillon and Amílcar Moreira – will join Vila Nuñez for a discussion of the strategy. He…

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Last week to apply! It's shaping up to be an exciting event on inequality, bringing together perspectives across disciplines and beyond academia. Researchers, policy experts, civil servants and others working on inequality are all welcome.

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I really like this! I dealt with a similar problem a few years ago when I was given the convenorship of a "team-taught" social policy analysis course, and could not do a good job due to scarcity of time, internal politics, path dependency etc. - would have benefited from this post enourmously.

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Steven Ruggles @stevenruggles.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My new article on the “Pig in the Python” argues that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. 1/28

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Last 3 days for applying to #ESPANET conference in Lisbon!

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Nick Harrison @nickharrison73.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Kids born in the austerity years after the Global Financial Crash much more likely to spend their early years in poverty. Worth clicking into the academic paper this Guardian article is based on. www.cambridge.org/core/journa... @suttontrust.bsky.social

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality will take place on 10-11 September at Nuffield College (Oxford). ▶️Plenaries: Philippe Aghion, Janet Gornick & roundable moderated by FT's Sarah O'Connor. 🚩CfP Deadline: 22 May. Join us in Oxford! Details here: atkinsonconference.github.io

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The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality

A two-day interdisciplinary conference on economic and social inequality at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. 10–11 September 2026.

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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

NEW: Long-term childhood poverty in Britain rose sharply after austerity reforms 📈 The study, by @sbeduk.bsky.social (Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy) & Anna Yong found that more than 1 in 5 children born after 2013 experience poverty for at least half their childhood.

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Two new positions open @politiquesupf.bsky.social 1. Quantitative Sociology of Work- Tenure Track @demosocupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... 2. Lecturer (Lector) Public Administration/Public Policy www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... Come join us! It's a great department!

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Quantitative Sociology of Work & Labor Markets - Departament | Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Socials - UPF

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.

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Associate Professorship of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy

University salary from £58,265 - £77,645 per annum which is inclusive of an Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 p.aPermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during th...

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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Consider joining our EPC pre-conference workshop "New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility" in Bologna on June 3. All welcome! More details here: www.deciphe.eu/news/new-dat...

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EPC 2026: New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility – DECIPHE Research Project

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JamesSmithRF @jamessmithrf.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This morning we got another release of the ONS's estimates of the differential impact of inflation - the Household Cost Indices (or HCIs) going up to the end of last year. The story here is inflation rates converging as differences in housing cost contributions continue to wane...

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz

We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility.
Deadline: 6 Feb 2026

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The Necks are having a three-day residency at Cafe OTO again this April!

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Join our team at DSPI Oxford! What you’ll find here: - Fair workload with substantial time for research - Supportive colleagues - Motivated students - A vibrant research environment - Support for worker visa application Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

NEW research from @sbeduk.bsky.social finds that UK families lose nearly a fifth of income after job loss - far more than in other EU countries ⬇️ The findings suggest the need for stronger unemployment support.

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Vacancies

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

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Many congrats again! Excited to have you back in Oxford.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 03/07/2025

Kicking off our (15th) annual Low Pay Britain report, @nyecominetti.bsky.social starts with the really good news - (hourly) low pay has been virtually eliminated. It's fallen from a fifth of the workforce 15 years ago, to just 3.4% today (and 1% for workers aged 25 and over).

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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

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DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

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Stephen P. Jenkins @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 09/04/2025

Public services are highly re-distributive to lower-income households. Households in the lowest income quintile receive an average of £15,900 per year in in-kind benefits. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/58qMKUI

Our analysis shows that public service provision is redistributive in general, providing
substantial in-kind support for lower-income households. For example, households in
the lowest income quintile receive an average of £15,900 per year in in-kind benefits each
year – 53 per cent more than the £10,400 received by the highest-income household
quintile (Figure 4). As a share of income, the lowest-income households receive in-kind
benefits worth 61 per cent of their income on an equivalised basis, while in-kind benefits
are worth just 4 per cent of incomes for the highest income decile

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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Call for papers for ESPAnet #socialpolicy conference in Milan open until 24/4. We are chairing again a stream on #poverty and #inequality together with @zparolin.bsky.social @danieledmiston.bsky.social and @sbeduk.bsky.social. ✉️🖨️ www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...

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ESPANET 2025

University of Milan, 27th-29th August 2025

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/04/2025

The latest data suggests child poverty and food insecurity have been rising for three consecutive years. While there are some questions about the reliability of the data, the big picture trend and forecast also remain bad.

Chart showing proportion of children living in relative poverty, after housing costs: GB/UK
The trend over time suggests that child poverty is set to increase further

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Gabriele Mari @gmari.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Re-upping this for we know so much about the harms of benefits cuts. Yet onto Labour-led ones.. The focus should be on abolishing the two-child limit and the benefit cap *for a start*, not on slashing PIP and Universal Credit. Hardship has social, economic and health costs. So much for "savings".

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Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This morning the justice secretary pointed to a “huge rise in the welfare budget” as justification for targeting benefit spending to make fiscal savings. So how big has the rise in welfare spending been?

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Ben Chrisinger @bchrisinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

#SNAP is already globally unusual as an antipoverty program. Cash-like, just for non-prepared foods, at approved retailers. Evidence from cash transfer programs suggests there are easier ways to protect #foodsecurity. 🛟 🩺📊 🩺 #econsky #academicsky

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Keeping SNAP in Line with Global Evidence on Food Security | NEJM

Proposals to introduce nutrition-based restrictions in SNAP ignore a global movement away from this kind of welfare program administration and toward systems that can more effectively improve health.

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Anders Bach-Mortensen @andersb-m.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Come do a fully-funded PhD with me in Denmark at Roskilde University! You’ll be part of a new exciting project looking at social care privatisation in Denmark with a larger team of researchers at both Roskilde and Oxford University. Deadline April 27: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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PhD Fellowship – Mapping the role of civil society and non-profit organisations in delivering social services in Denmark

The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD of Social Science from September 1st, 2025, or a

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 15/02/2025

Graduate salaries have stagnated while the minimum wage has risen, leading to convergence between the two. Two decades ago, the median graduate in a ‘graduate job’ had a salary 2.5 times that of a minimum wage worker, by 2023, the typical graduate earned 1.6 times a minimum wage worker.

Chart showing real full-time annual earnings for someone on the minimum wage and different categories of graduates: UK

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Michele Bavaro @mikbavaro.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hello BlueSky world! I want to share with you a new work published on ITEJ with S. Boscolo and S. Tedeschi. link.springer.com/article/10.1... We study the looking forward trends in wealth inequality in Italy with a dynamic micro-simulation model. Please see below for more details! 👇👇👇

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

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Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

New working paper with P Achard, C Frodermann, D Müller & @sanderwagner.bsky.social:using harmonized admin data for #France & #Germany, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings. #sociology #demography

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

How important are inheritances in terms of total income into a household? Perhaps surprisingly, gifts and inheritances are only a small proportion. Thus, inheritance taxes may have little effect on inequality.

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Christoph Henking @chrishenking.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hi new Blusky community👋 I am a final year PhD student in Social Policy & Public Health, and I research social inequalities in mental health. For example, what are the social determinants of mental healthcare use and helfpulness accross 111 countries? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Global inequalities in mental health problems: understanding the predictors of lifetime prevalence, treatment utilisation and perceived helpfulness across 111 countries

Socio-economic inequalities in mental health problems are found in measures covering prevalence, treatment utilisation, and treatment helpfulness. How…

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Now by sector, elite colleges are more concentrated for corporate and NGO positions than for billionaires and international orgs. But for country leadership (central bankers and heads of state), the distribution is much more mixed, and Oxford edges out Harvard. (Yale still DNF)

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

3-year Postdoc Opportunity in the DECIPHE project at DIW Berlin. You'll work closely with P. Lersch and collaborate with the team to study intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Europe. Deadline: 15 Jan 2024 For job details: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai... For DECIPHE: www.deciphe.eu

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DIW Berlin: Postdoc (f/m/x) in the SOEP

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Aleksi Karhula @aleksikarhula.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2

How do work and family life courses differ in welfare states with varying emphasis on the state, market, and family for welfare provision? The authors compare life courses until midlife in Denmark, Fi...

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I would also happy to be added.

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