Making my very first Twitter thread in honor of my very first article! Just published at Socio-Economic Review: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-ar…

To be clear: this awful decision has two aspects. First, it‘s incredibly sad that Simon Jäger is stepping down. He‘s the best possible match for IZA and one of the nicest persons in the profession. But second, of all people, why choose Armin Falk as successor??? /1

This is an open letter from 436 IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation and the Rectorate of the University of Bonn, in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA. docs.google.com/document/d/1kZ…

„Sie hat Nein gesagt, aber er hat seine Macht ausgespielt“: Gegen einen HU-Professor läuft ein Disziplinarverfahren, es geht um den Verdacht der sexualisierten Gewalt. Tagesspiegel-Recherchen zeigen: Es gab schon früher Vorwürfe gegen ihn. Eva Murašov tagesspiegel.de/wissen/vorwurf…

With beautiful maps for Robert Vief @robertvief.bsky.social

NEXT THURSDAY, 12 noon Paris time: @NoraWaitkus presenting at the CREST Sociology seminar: "Wealth Differences: Assessing Macro-Level and Micro-Level Variations Across National Contexts." Get on the RER and join us in person or watch on-line: zoom.us/j/96820777040?…

📣New paper in ESR with Nhat An Trinh & A. Fasang 👉Key findings: About half of all children in Germany have a parent with a non-standard work contract or schedule. But only mothers' non-standard schedules are associated with children’s education. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…

📢new in European Societies Comparing gender compositions of occupations and firms, we show (1) switches out of gender-atypicality are largest for men across occ (2) firm compositions affect women's exits from firms AND occ. (3) occ. and firms' comp. interact in shaping mobility

Perfect timing: "This e-mail is a reminder that your review is due in one week."

Publication news: Our study on workplace segregation of top earners has been accepted by the 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆! 🎉 Here are the key insights from this COIN paper, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot 1/n #research #sociology

This is interesting if true, but I'm not sure it is. I tried to replicate the US graph with GSS data and I'm not seeing it. Whether the gap is growing depends how seriously we take the last two points is a noisy series. But it's nowhere near 30 points.

Wie kommt es, dass ausgerechnet der Streit ums Bürgergeld die einzige verteilungspolitische Debatte der letzten Monate war? Und was sagt das aus über die historische Schwäche der Linken? @LWestheuser hat dazu einige sehr interessante Überlegungen zeit.de/kultur/2024-01…

Am 17.6 erscheint ein neues Buch von mir - hier schon einmal die Vorschau. suhrkamp.de/buch/steffen-m…

This paper I started writing in 2014, changed data sets, and got rejected in 5 different journals since 2019 has finally found a home! Thanks to the numerous reviewers I feel that the paper has in fact gotten stronger over the years and I'm hoping it will be useful for others.

Heute wäre der Soziologe Oskar Negt 90 Jahre alt geworden. Er widmete sein wissenschaftliches und publizistisches Werk vorrangig der Rolle von Gewerkschaften und Arbeiterschaft in Gesellschaft und Politik. Negt starb im Februar dieses Jahres in Hannover.

Sparpaket für die Entrüstungsindustrie von Danilo Scholz, yeah merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/der-al…

New WP: “Monopsony Power and Poverty.” What happens to poverty & public finances when a Walmart Supercenter enters a local labor market? Poverty increases by 2 pp (16%) in 10 years after, driven by declining earnings. Income transfers up, taxes paid down. iza.org/publications/d…

I know I have said this before, but... 🚀We are hiring! 2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration WZB collaborating with LIfBi - Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe & @iab_news Please share! DM for further info wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/342/p…

Die deutsche Autoindustrie steht unter Druck: VW-Werke vor dem Aus, das Verbrenner-Ende naht. Mit Klaus Dörre blicke ich hinter die bedrohten Werkstore - wie die Verkehrswende die Gewerkschaften fordert, der Unmut der Belegschaft wächst und dieser AfD & BSW Aufwind verschafft.

How does class origin shape gender wealth gaps?💎 Nhat An Trinh finds large gaps among privileged groups, due to unequal business asset transfers. Equalizing these cut gaps by 40%. For lower-class, equalizing transfers has no effect. doi.org/10.1093/ser/mw… #SER Oxford Journals