NEW: Long-term childhood poverty in Britain rose sharply after austerity reforms 📈
The study, by @sbeduk.bsky.social (Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy) & Anna Yong found that more than 1 in 5 children born after 2013 experience poverty for at least half their childhood.
Two new positions open @politiquesupf.bsky.social
1. Quantitative Sociology of Work- Tenure Track @demosocupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...
2. Lecturer (Lector) Public Administration/Public Policy www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...
Come join us! It's a great department!
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣
The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods.
Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
Consider joining our EPC pre-conference workshop "New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility" in Bologna on June 3. All welcome! More details here: www.deciphe.eu/news/new-dat...
This morning we got another release of the ONS's estimates of the differential impact of inflation - the Household Cost Indices (or HCIs) going up to the end of last year. The story here is inflation rates converging as differences in housing cost contributions continue to wane...
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. Deadline: 6 Feb 2026
We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you...
Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline?
A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility?
Experienced in data management and analysis?
If so, apply:
https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz
The Necks are having a three-day residency at Cafe OTO again this April!
NEW: A study led by @dspi-oxford.bsky.social finds that UK households see their income fall by 17% in the first year after job loss – a much sharper hit than in Nordic or continental countries.
Read more ⬇️
Join our team at DSPI Oxford!
What you’ll find here:
- Fair workload with substantial time for research
- Supportive colleagues
- Motivated students
- A vibrant research environment
- Support for worker visa application
Feel free to reach out with any questions.
NEW research from @sbeduk.bsky.social finds that UK families lose nearly a fifth of income after job loss - far more than in other EU countries ⬇️
The findings suggest the need for stronger unemployment support.
Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social
We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Many congrats again! Excited to have you back in Oxford.
Kicking off our (15th) annual Low Pay Britain report, @nyecominetti.bsky.social starts with the really good news - (hourly) low pay has been virtually eliminated.
It's fallen from a fifth of the workforce 15 years ago, to just 3.4% today (and 1% for workers aged 25 and over).
Next Wednesday 18 June at 5 pm I will be presenting Zero Poverty Society at the @dspi-oxford.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3e3...
We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
Wow!
Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Our analysis shows that public service provision is redistributive in general, providing substantial in-kind support for lower-income households. For example, households in the lowest income quintile receive an average of £15,900 per year in in-kind benefits each year – 53 per cent more than the £10,400 received by the highest-income household quintile (Figure 4). As a share of income, the lowest-income households receive in-kind benefits worth 61 per cent of their income on an equivalised basis, while in-kind benefits are worth just 4 per cent of incomes for the highest income decile
Public services are highly re-distributive to lower-income households.
Households in the lowest income quintile receive an average of £15,900 per year in in-kind benefits.
Read more ➡️ buff.ly/58qMKUI
Call for papers for ESPAnet #socialpolicy conference in Milan open until 24/4. We are chairing again a stream on #poverty and #inequality together with @zparolin.bsky.social @danieledmiston.bsky.social and @sbeduk.bsky.social.
✉️🖨️ www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...
Chart showing proportion of children living in relative poverty, after housing costs: GB/UK The trend over time suggests that child poverty is set to increase further
The latest data suggests child poverty and food insecurity have been rising for three consecutive years.
While there are some questions about the reliability of the data, the big picture trend and forecast also remain bad.
Re-upping this for we know so much about the harms of benefits cuts. Yet onto Labour-led ones..
The focus should be on abolishing the two-child limit and the benefit cap *for a start*, not on slashing PIP and Universal Credit.
Hardship has social, economic and health costs. So much for "savings".
This morning the justice secretary pointed to a “huge rise in the welfare budget” as justification for targeting benefit spending to make fiscal savings. So how big has the rise in welfare spending been?
#SNAP is already globally unusual as an antipoverty program. Cash-like, just for non-prepared foods, at approved retailers.
Evidence from cash transfer programs suggests there are easier ways to protect #foodsecurity.
🛟 🩺📊 🩺 #econsky #academicsky
Come do a fully-funded PhD with me in Denmark at Roskilde University! You’ll be part of a new exciting project looking at social care privatisation in Denmark with a larger team of researchers at both Roskilde and Oxford University.
Deadline April 27: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Chart showing real full-time annual earnings for someone on the minimum wage and different categories of graduates: UK
Graduate salaries have stagnated while the minimum wage has risen, leading to convergence between the two.
Two decades ago, the median graduate in a ‘graduate job’ had a salary 2.5 times that of a minimum wage worker, by 2023, the typical graduate earned 1.6 times a minimum wage worker.
Hello BlueSky world!
I want to share with you a new work published on ITEJ with S. Boscolo and S. Tedeschi.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We study the looking forward trends in wealth inequality in Italy with a dynamic micro-simulation model.
Please see below for more details!
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Picture of the main campus of the LMU Munich with students sitting on the grass and talking
Sociologists working on inequality:
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
New working paper with P Achard, C Frodermann, D Müller &
@sanderwagner.bsky.social:using harmonized admin data for
#France & #Germany, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings. #sociology
#demography