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Andreas P. Weiland @apweiland.bsky.social · Aug 25

Publication alert 🚨
@katjamoe.bsky.social‬ @claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.

Journal of Economics and Statistics @jeconstat.bsky.social · Aug 21

New paper: @katjamoe.bsky.social, @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social study the motherhood penalty in net wealth and public pension wealth in Germany

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 1d

mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages:

osf.io/preprints/so...

OSF

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 4d

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?

✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.

✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 4d

🚨Job alert!🚨

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities

jobs.helsinki.fi

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LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · 4d

⭐WE ARE HIRING! ✨ Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Social Sciences - Ref: 25-35

ℹ️ Learn more: shorturl.at/YrzIh
📧 Work-related questions: Contact Dr. Magdalena GORCZYNSKA-ANGIULLI | [email protected]
📧 Administrative matters: Contact Mrs. Vanya KIROVA | [email protected]

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Benedikt Bender @benediktbender.bsky.social · 4d

🚨New publication out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

@danielk24.bsky.social & I show that the support for green subsidies by unions & business interest groups in the 🇺🇸 & in 🇩🇪 goes hand in hand with the support for eco-social policies.

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/rego...

A summary below 👇

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Stefan Wallaschek @swallaschek.bsky.social · 5d

In the blog post below, I use this analogy to make sense of the current state of science with the constant competition, quantification and precarity.

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 5d

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · 8d

Early childhood, graduation, mid-career, retirement—life stages are full of opportunity and vulnerability.

Our new #Mapineq White Paper shows how to tackle inequalities across the life course.

By @janierola.net , Daniela Vono, @elinakilpi.bsky.social & the Mapineq team.

🔗 mapineq.eu/white-paper/

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 8d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 23d

Did you see? Our program is live. Don‘t miss the ISI Wealth Conference 2025: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 12d

Deutliche Zentrum-Peripherie-Unterschiede bei der OB-Wahl in Köln: In der Innenstadt gewinnt die Kandidatin der Grünen, in äußeren Stadtteilen der Kandidat der SPD. Je größer die räumliche Distanz eines Stimmbezirks zum Kölner Dom, desto stärker die SPD – je geringer, desto stärker die Grünen. 1/2

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 12d

Cross-country analysis of voter reactions to economic crises.

tldr: economic crises benefit the right. If a center-right party is in power when the crisis hits, there is a shift even further to the right.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Andreas P. Weiland @apweiland.bsky.social · 17d

I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support!
#dgs2025

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Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · 17d

Riesen Glückwunsch an @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @apweiland.bsky.social zum Promotionspreis der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social DGS-Sektion #Sozialpolitik 🏆🏆 #dgs2025

Und herzlichen Dank an die Jury: Ursula Dallinger, Karin Gottschall & @kzimmermann.bsky.social 👏

a cat holding a trophy that says 1st place on it

ALT: a cat holding a trophy that says 1st place on it

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 19d

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

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Zeitschrift für Soziologie @zfs.bsky.social · 19d

Diesen Mittwoch auf dem DGS-Kongress: Unsere Herausgeber*innen veranstalten eine Ad-Hoc Gruppe zum Thema: "Wie funktionieren soziologische Fachzeitschriften?" Sie findet am Mittwoch von 14:15 – 17:00 Uhr in Raum AdH56 auf dem Duisburger Campus statt. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen.

Mittwoch, 24.09.2025, 14:15-17 Uhr
Meet the editors: Wie funktionieren soziologische
Fachzeitschriften? (AdH56)
Organisation: Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld), Isabel Kusche
(Bamberg), Tobias Röhl (Zürich, CH) Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld): Der Peer-Review Prozess Céline Teney (Berlin): Dos und Don'ts für die Einreichung von
Manuskripten mit quantitativen Methoden Isabel Kusche (Bamberg): Entscheidungsfindung im Kreis der
Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber
Tobias Röhl (Zürich, CH): Gütekriterien für qualitative Beiträge

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Stefan Sell @stefan-sell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Martina Brandt et al. (2025): Größter Pflegedienst in Deutschland: Millionen Menschen pflegen Angehörige inner- und außerhalb ihres Haushalts: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

DIW Berlin: Größter Pflegedienst in Deutschland: Millionen Menschen pflegen Angehörige inner- und außerhalb ihres Haushalts

Viele Menschen in Deutschland unterstützen in erheblichem Umfang Angehörige oder Freund*innen, die ihren Alltag nur noch eingeschränkt selbst bewältigen können. Diese informelle Pflege ist eine zentra...

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 22d

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Philipp Dierker @philippdierker.bsky.social · 23d

New paper out in @jmfncfr.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social. We use (weighted) sequence complexity indices to estimate mental + physical health in mid-adulthood. Results (again) highlight the vulnerability of single mothers.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This study examines the association between accumulated family complexity and mental and physical health in mid-adulthood, with a focus on gender differences. Background While research o...

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover).

Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome.

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Sociology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · Sep 10

When do people become parents—and in what unions? @aledinal.bsky.social studies the risks of first parenthood (15–50) by union status and parental class across cohorts. Read more: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

#FamilyFormation #ReproducibleResearch

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳

I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷‍♀️

Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations to Chen-Hao Hsu @uni-bamberg.de
for winning the 2nd place #ECSR PhD prize #ECSR2025 🥳🥳🥳

PhD prize winners at the ceremony at the ECSR conference in Cologne

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Pieter Vanhuysse @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social · Sep 8

European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods.
Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups

Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across (a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b) ‘the lifecycle’ (the piggy bank). But what is the ...

journals.plos.org

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy

New paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Andreas P. Weiland @apweiland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Had a great time at #ECSR2025 presenting joint work w/ @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @katjamoe.bsky.social on motherhood penalties in public pension wealth and net wealth. A lot of great research and people! Looking forward to ISI Wealth hosted by @isi-munich.bsky.social next month.

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 5

This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)

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