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
Fantastic new article by @yunhanwen.bsky.social that reconceptualizes Chinese urban development as what she calls "party-state urbanism" in IJURR.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
It really is a great vibe!
Life update(!): I'm joining Bocconi's Social & Political Sciences Dept. in Milan as an AP of Sociology in the fall. Excited to connect with others in Europe on work/org studies and social strat. I have several working papers ready if anyone needs a seminar speaker. sps.unibocconi.eu
A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Recruitment: A Full Professor (professeur des universités) in sociology - digital, organisations, work
www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/...
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New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!
I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers.
Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6):
ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity
Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.
Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.
Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Screenshot of a message in the BlueSky app explaining that it does not work in Mississippi because of the state's age verification laws.
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
An old time-y illustration of a the Roller.
Today is Décadi the 30th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller. #JacobinDay
More information on the roller
An old time-y illustration of a Virtue.
Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233.
Sansculottides is the month of complementary days.
Today we celebrate virtue. #JacobinDay
More information on virtue
Check out the @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social issue on gun supply! This volume is a tour de force on how the U.S. got to have so many guns and what can be done about it. Thanks to @everytown.bsky.social for their support.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/issues/issue...
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Today is Tridi the 3rd of Fructidor in the year 233.
Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness.
Today we celebrate puffballs. #JacobinDay
More information on puffballs
@hunterwyork.com, PhD Candidate of Sociology at Princeton University , shared his new research on economic outcome stratification among workers by field of study and institutions. Please check out the paper on his website 👆 or email him.
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Today is Quintidi the 15th of Thermidor in the year 233.
Thermidor is the month of heat.
Today we celebrate ewes. #JacobinDay
More information on ewes
Finally a take on LLMs in the classroom that points out both their strengths and weaknesses (which is not, primarily AI slop) and offers real solutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Join us on August 8 at UIC for this year’s Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS)! #asa
(In suppressed voice) Also it’d be great if folks can make a small donation so that we can buy coffee for everyone ☕️
Thank you! We have a lot to discuss when the opportunity presents itself, I think!
Finally!!
EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
Sad to miss @isa-rc28.bsky.social in Milan, but I'm basically in Europe because a choir I'm in is performing Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, a ~17 voice part and 4 movement "pilgrimage in music" following the Camino de Santiago. @tenebraechoir.bsky.social has a gr8 recording youtu.be/GPHcqHzzTC8?...
Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
Ultimately, this work dovetails with a lot of other research on SBTC, intragenerational mobility, gender/racial wage gaps, and more. It is simultaneously a paper on measurement and theory, and I hope it can help advance the field in this era of expanding data resources and rapid occupational change.
Like the prosociality penalty, which penalizes workers who prioritize certain kinds of prosocial jobs, this inheritance of occupational characteristics could lead to certain inequalities in other aspects of work (pay, benefits, other occupational characteristics), but that remains to be seen.
This paper ultimately asserts that multiple kinds of characteristics of jobs are "inherited" across generations, a phenomenon that can lead to occupational and class reproduction, but that can also lead to patterned occupational movements outside of occupational/class reproduction.
Importantly, this generalizes across parent-child gender dyads, including mother-son and father-daughter occupational characteristic inheritance. We also show that many of the most common occupational transitions span class boundaries.
In this paper, we use a simple dimension reduction exercise of occupational characteristics, alongside pooled surveys containing info on parent-child occupation dyads. We show that occupational characteristics are preserved in ways that go beyond either SEI transmission or class immobility.