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New work with my talented former student Olivia Granström. We examine European variation in intergenerational occupational mobility and its place-based drivers. osf.io/preprints/soca…

Join us at the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* at Ross School of Business on June 6-7, 2024. Theme: Organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that more/less align w/notions of fairness & justice. Submission/registration link below. tinyurl.com/UMRSB-EOC

Polarization is a rising issue. We worry about political sorting in social media and in real life. But what about at work? Is work a place where we are exposed to partisan diversity, or just another echo chamber? Read on for a 🧵about our working paper… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New research from Rice Business and MIT Sloan School of Management finds that U.S. voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of #factuality but support their favorite politicians — as long as their statements express a “deeper truth." @minjaekim22 ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4ch2r9aa

Congratulations to these 23 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty members-- including Nathan Wilmers MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management--honored for their #mentoring of graduate students: news.mit.edu/2024/23-mit-fa…

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨 Do labor market conditions affect the hiring discrimination of union supporters? Short answer: Yes they do. I find that discrimination is pro-cyclical and mainly observable among firms without a collective agreement. The paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨🚨Do Americans accurately perceive union benefits? 🚨🚨 Our new paper (led by Jonne Kamphorst) out this week PNASNews finds: Americans significantly and systematically underestimate material benefits associated with union benefits. 🧵👇

We spent 2/3 of the last 6 years and 1/2 of the last 8 years under 4% unemployment rate. This has *never* happened since the BLS started collecting unemployment data. We've never had 6, 7, or 8 year stretches with as many months under 4% unemployment rate as we do today.

Perhaps surprising to many: Wage inequality has declined across most countries since the start of the pandemic. Interesting OECD Social analysis on wages by Stefano Scarpetta @stephancarcillo Andrea Salvatori Sandrine Cazes et al. oecd.org/employment/Pol…

Notably, the original EPI report was in 2015 with data through 2014. In any of these series, the story looked quite different before we saw the years post 2014! Shoutout to Nathan Wilmers who was ahead of the curve on this pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Congratulations to @_elkelly MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management, who has won the Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network! tinyurl.com/4pcee2uz

Congratulations to Nathan Wilmers MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management, who has been recognized for exceptional mentoring of graduate students: tinyurl.com/mrm4v58z

📢Announcing *new* monthly series of quits and layoffs reported by households! We see a notable sign of labor market softening: layoffs have risen steadily and significantly since January 2024. Do I have your attention #JOLTS and #jobsday fans? #econtwitter 🧵1/n

Goodbye PhD. Hello academia 👨‍🎓📚 I have defended my dissertation at Oxford DSPI and will be joining The University of Edinburgh as an Assistant Professor next month. I am grateful to everyone who supported me along the way and look forward to this new chapter!

I am delighted that our article on competition law and comparative capitalism, co-authored with @thelenkathleen1, is now published in Comparative Political Studies! This represents years of collaborative effort. I am thrilled to see it find a home in such a good journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

🚨 Important info for ASA Sociology 2024 meeting in Montreal: Tomorrow (8/8) there will be a 1-day strike by workers at 30 hotels throughout the region represented by CSN. Some are conference hotels. The list is below. What should you do if your hotel is on the list? 1/

1/7 – New research from Shift finds that service sector workers can take advantage of strong labor market conditions to improve their job quality @DannyJSchneider @KristenHarknett Tyler Woods Harvard Kennedy School Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy: shift.hks.harvard.edu/labor-market-p…

Its publication day!!