Politici zoals Francken zijn niet veel meer dan Trumps' 5e colonne. Europese politiek dient zich dringend te bezinnen hoe zich tegen figuren zoals Orban, Farage, Francken, etc. te verdedigen.

Today 3 Belgian universities (UAntwerpen, UGent, VUB) conferred a joint honorary doctorate on UN-rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Strong academic statement in support of a unwavering voice for international law and against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

We study NHS GP practice closures in England: nearly 1,700 practices closed since 2013, directly affecting 600k+ patients. Using a staggered DID design, we find that closures reduce patient satisfaction AND increase support for populist right parties (UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK) by 2–4pp.

Screenshot of the articles title "Stratified Scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout" and the abstract: While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social stratification in this effect are less clear. Using georeferenced German administrative data and a conditional instrumental variable approach that exploits distance between place of residence and large firms, we find negative financial consequences but show that the dropout penalty is entirely concentrated among individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. We further show that these stratified scars partly reflect unequal educational reenrolment rates and unequal employment outcomes among dropouts who do not reenrol. Our results highlight the potential of policies targeting higher graduation rates to reduce social inequality and suggest social advantage buffers the negative financial consequences of apprenticeship dropout, even in institutional settings with strong links between credentials and labour market outcomes.

How costly is apprenticeship dropout—and for whom?

Using an IV approach, our new @europeansocreview.bsky.social article finds strong income penalties, but only for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

My great coauthors patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social 💖

tinyurl.com/tk4nkdb3

Personal reflection and obituary by Nancy Fraser after Habermas' death. Poignantly puts into words the mixed feelings I have looking back on what I learned from his work and my profound unease reading all the obits glossing over (the wider implications) of his later (non-)interventions on e.g. Gaza.

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026 How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

M.a.w. de kost voor gebouwonderhoud of de technieker bij die bij defecte lamp op bureau van bursaal langskomt wordt impliciet mee gefinancierd door andere uniefmiddelen, omdat overhead op project waar die bursaal op werkt te laag ligt...

Herinner me uit m'n UA RvB-tijd en debat 'full costing'-methode dat op geaggregeerd niveau voor unief die fin. stromen wat cynisch kunnen uitdraaien. Bv. aandeel (overheids)beurzen met (te) lage max overhead zorgt dat impliciet er centrale (onderwijs)middelen naar onderzoek schuiven.

The home page of the website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium!

politicaleconomy.be

🔍 Meet the team
📚 Browse publications
🔬 Explore projects
📅 Stay tuned for events

The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...

Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital (Forthcoming Article) - Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals who gain admission to elite college programs transform their children’s social environment. Children become more likely to attend high-status private schools and colleges, and to live near and befriend high-status peers. In contrast, academic achievement is unaffected. Simulations combining descriptive and quasi-experimental findings show that elite colleges tighten the link between social and human capital while decreasing intergenerational social mobility.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital" by Andrés Barrios-Fernández, Christopher Neilson, and Seth Zimmerman.

Ruim 280 digitale bezwaren ingediend tegen aanpassingen Ventilusdossier | VRT NWS Nieuws In het 2e openbaar onderzoek naar de omgevingsvergunningen voor de Ventiluslijn zijn 283 digitale bezwaren ingediend. Ventilus is de hoogspanningslijn die elektriciteit van op zee aan land moet brenge...

Louter de stroomkabel er naar toe plaatsen is al enorme politieke uitdaging www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Zijn er ook parlementen met meer vaste (studiedienst)medewerkers rechtstreeks in dienst, die over verkiezingen blijven en parlementairen ondersteunen?

link 404...

1 op 3 werkneemsters ervaart fysiek of verbaal geweld door derden zoals klanten, wanneer de werkgever toelaat dat deze hun prestaties beoordelen. Een gat in de welzijns- en discriminatiewetgeving, schrijft @mhermans.net . #IWD2026
👉 www.denktankminerva.be/analyse/2026...

This figure shows the percentage of respondents in 35 countries across the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and the Integrated Values Survey (IVS) who rate “hard work” as more important than structural factors for getting ahead in life. Dark blue diamonds (IVS) and dark green circles (ISSP) represent survey year averages. Light blue and light green lines plot the trend in meritocratic beliefs across the five-year cohorts, on the basis of locally weighted least squares regressions on the cohort-country means (light blue diamonds [IVS] and light green circles [ISSP]). IVS data show whether respondents rate hard work (1) or luck and connections (0) as the more important factor for achieving a better life. ISSP data show the share of respondents who rate hard work as more important than “knowing the right people” and “coming from a wealthy family” for getting ahead in life.

The figure shows annualized change scores (subtracting the earliest from the latest value and standardizing by the number of years/cohorts). This figure is only included in the supplementary material.

How has the public belief in meritocracy changed over time? We address this question in our new Data Viz (@sociusjournal.bsky.social) by examining trends in popular beliefs across cohorts and periods in 35 countries, based on two datasets.

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231261425841

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?

Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

Het is m.i. eenvoudiger om (minstens de "zuidflank" van) de N-VA te beschouwen als de 5e colonne van VS en Israel, en nadenken hoe we ons politiek bestel daar tegen kunnen beschermen.

Abstract This paper provides the fi rst systematic evidence on intergenerational wealth mobility in Germany using newly harmonized wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) spanning nearly three decades (1988–2017). Linking parents and their adult children, we estimate intergenerational rank–rank correlations (IRRC) in net wealth to assess the persistence of relative wealth positions across generations. We fi nd substantial wealth persistence in Germany, with an IRRC of around 0.25. Strikingly, this association remains highly stable across two observation windows (1988–2002 and 2002–2017), despite pronounced changes in the macroeconomic and institutional environment. Mobility curves indicate that the rank–rank relationship is approximately linear and exhibits little evidence of strong non-linearities at the top or bottom of the parental wealth distribution. We further document limited heterogeneity by off spring gender and birth cohort, and show that controlling for parental income and education attenuates the IRRC only modestly, suggesting that wealth captures an additional dimension of socioeconomic advantage beyond standard indicators of parental background. In an international perspective, Germany exhibits lower intergenerational wealth persistence than the United States. Exploratory evidence suggests that cross-country diff erences in homeownership may account for a sizable part of this gap, highlighting the potential role of housing-related institutions in shaping intergenerational wealth mobility.

scatter plot titled “The Great Gatsby Curve in Wealth.” X-axis: Wealth inequality in 2005 (more inequality to the right). Y-axis: Intergenerational wealth correlation (higher values mean less mobility). Countries country United States, Sweden, Italy, Taiwan, Norway, Germany, South Korea, Denmark, France, Australia, Japan inear trend line (slope ≈ 0.46) shows a positive relationship: countries with greater wealth inequality tend to have higher intergenerational wealth correlation, meaning lower wealth mobility. The United States and Sweden toward the upper-right; Denmark and France are lower-left; Germany in the right-middle.

Interesting working paper on wealth mobility in Germany by Markus Grabka, @pmlersch.bsky.social, @smaexie.bsky.social, and @drschnitzlein.bsky.social population-economics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...

Life-course trajectories of exposure to affluence and poverty in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces Social exposure is typically studied within isolated domains, such as neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces, yet individuals encounter these environments concurrently in their
#sociology link

Ffs, can you please stop providing cover for genocide, wanton bombings of children's schools in the ME and the shreddeding of intl. order. I'm tired of doomscrolling while pretending a ghoul like you speaks in the name of europeans.

Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap ...

Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."

The democracy falling narrative: debunking stereotypes about democratic deconsolidation in the EU | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The democracy falling narrative: debunking stereotypes about democratic deconsolidation in the EU - Volume 18 Issue 1

18.1🌹

Is public opinion turning reactionary? 🤔

L.J.Brunkert, B.Puranen, A.Turska-Kawa & C.Welzel find no evidence that #Voters in Europe have become more polarized or anti-democratic in ways that explain the rise of the far right using survey data

Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions

Welfare politics is about who gets what 🎁😌

@petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social & Timothy Hellwig find evidence from Europe which shows economic security shapes welfare preferences, linking policy design directly to voter approval and electoral incentives

Extremistische politici zoals Freilich die gretig Israëlische oorlogspropaganda tegen de VN hebben verspreid met oog op het stoppen van voedselhulp aan Palestijnen tijdens een genocide hebben sowieso geen plaats onder democratische parlementairen.

Interesting! Are there recommended studies that look at socecon differences in (trends in) loneliness? Intuitively it seems a lot easier to maintain (more) friendships if you have disposable income, more controle over working time, etc.

🔴 Gallicagram v2, nous voici ! 🔴
Nouvelle interface en react vachement plus stable et rapide, nouveaux corpus (Mediapart, Libé, le Parisien, Le Figaro…), recherche contextuelle, comparaisons inter-corpus, filtre rubrique, bilingue, infinite scrolling... on vous explique tout !

📌 www.gallicagram.com

Younger firms and CEOs support far more work from home (WFH). This suggests WFH will grow over time as these companies expand and older CEOs retire, from Giray Aksoy, Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Cranney, Davis, Dolls, and Zarate www.nber.org/papers/w34795

Two Belgian Bluesky politics & media clusters: one French-speaking to the south close to the big France cluster and one Dutch-speaking to the north towards the Scandinavian, English-speaking clusters. Seems the dimensionality reduction algo's can adequately capture our multilingual complexity ;-).

For Belgium there are two seperate clusters on politics and media: one more to the south and closer to the big France cluster and one more north towards the Scandinavian, English-speaking clusters. Seems appropriate ;-).