NEW JOB AD -
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in PUBLIC ECONOMICS -
(“Drivers and consequences of rising economic inequality”)
2 positions (Deadline May 17 2026)
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Join us on Tuesday, 12 May at 16:00 for Publishing Social Sciences with Nature Portfolio Journals, jointly organized by the London Inequality Network and UCL CNET.
With Sebastián Villamizar-Santamaría (@sebvillasanta.bsky.social), Senior Editor at Nature.
More details below 👇
Tax Day reminder: taxing the super-rich a few percent of their wealth shouldn't be controversial - a billionaire tax wouldn't start from zero. See post below 👇
Also worth reading from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3r8sy73r
Public registration is now open for the World Inequality Conference hosted by @wid.world!
The conference will take place at Paris School of Economics from 4 - 6 June, featuring research sessions and panel discussions with prominent speakers.
Register by 15 May ⬇️
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This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Neil Stewart (Warwick Business School) on "Gambling spend and gambling harm".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
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.
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The call for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, organized in Milan by @dondenacentre.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social, also with the support of ISPI, is now open! Early-career researchers, join us for this great experience! (deadline May 15).
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Next up at the #LunchSeminar: Jeanne Bomare (LSE)
“Death and Taxes: Inheritance Tax Planning and Unexpected Mortality”
🗓️ April 3 | 12:00
📍 @pse.bsky.social or via Zoom
More info about the seminar ⤵️
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This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Edgard Dewitte (@berkeleyhaas.bsky.social) on "100 Years of Political Selection in the U.K."
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
Great event yesterday at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social!
A wide range of topics covered - from inequality measurement to inequality in politics.
Thanks to all the speakers and attendees.
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Happening this Wednesday!
We have a great agenda - pop by if you're around
This is happening today at 4!
We are joined by Jeanne Bomare for this term's final seminar!
Her research uses the first wave of COVID-19 as a natural experiment to identify the scale and mechanisms of inheritance tax planning in the United Kingdom.
🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/4Vh1XUc
💻 Attend online: buff.ly/Rj4FPEw
Happening this Wednesday!
We have a great agenda - pop by if you're around
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (@sschneiderstraw.bsky.social) on "Minority Political Representation and Immigrant Integration".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
Don't miss the next London Inequality Workshop! Details below!
Please also sign up to our mailing list at london-inequality-network.co.uk, to stay updated about events and announcements.
We hope to see you at the workshop!
📣 Event Announcement!
Join us on Wednesday, March 25 at 16:00 at Imperial Business School for the next London Inequality Workshop.
We'll have four excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby.
More details below 👇
Nice to hear ex-Kanzler Scholz mention our paper with @brankomilan.bsky.social on homoploutia on The Rest Is Politics.
It looks at how top labor and capital incomes increasingly go to the same households and what that means for inequality: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper on the capitalization of the world, together with @brankomilan.bsky.social, out today! A short thread follows below 👇
Join us in London in May for our 6th Early Career Workshop!
Details below:
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Guido Tabellini on "Do Elections Moderate or Polarize Political Rhetoric?"
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
🏆 François Bourguignon, former Director of PSE and Director of Studies at @ehess.fr, has been awarded the 2026 Revue économique Prize for his major contributions to research on inequality, poverty, and economic development.
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This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Ignacio Jurado (@jurado.bsky.social) on "Losing Elections: Democratic Consent and Illiberal Attitudes in Polarized Contexts".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
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.
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Florian Foos (@florianfoos.bsky.social, LSE) on "Differential Mobilization and Turnout Inequality".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it
🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇