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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 1d

👥 More immigrant coworkers and diversity improve minority retention — but may reinforce workplace segregation
🌐 Assimilation: coworker effects weaker in the second generation
💼 Policy implication: turnover shapes workplace composition — it’s not just about who is hired

Link: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Blending in or moving on? Immigrant coworkers, assimilation, and employee turnover

Abstract. How does the presence of immigrant coworkers shape the likelihood that minority employees stay or leave their jobs? This study uses linked employ

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 1d

📌 Key finding: More immigrant coworkers → lower exit rates among immigrant workers, small increase in exits among majority workers
🔑 Why? Effects are strongest when coworkers are coethnics, when they have the same skills, and when immigrant coworkers are represented among top earners

Figure 2. Estimated effects of proportion of immigrant-background coworkers on the probability of workplace exit by immigrant background. Note: Average marginal effects from Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressions where the proportion of immigrant coworkers is measured continuously with a quadratic term (a) and in 5-percentage-point intervals using dummy variables (b). The shaded areas around the point estimates represent 95% confidence intervals. OLS regressions (linear probability models) predicting the likelihood of workplace exit in the next year. Control for workplace covariates, employee covariates, workplace fixed effects, individual fixed effects, and year fixed effects. Workplace covariates include the proportion of university-educated coworkers, proportion of male coworkers, workplace job destruction, workplace age, workplace mean wage, mean age of employees, and the proportion of immigrantbackground workers in the municipality and industry of employment. Employee covariates include age and age squared, gender, education, occupation, part-time position, log monthly salary, and workplace seniority. Huber–White standard errors within parentheses are robust to within-workplace and within-individual clustering and heteroscedasticity.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social: Blending In or Moving On? @enlar.bsky.social @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, and I study how the share of immigrant coworkers affects whether immigrants stay or leave their job. Here’s what we find 👇

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

Inequalities also vary by field.
⚖️ Law and 🩺 medicine stand out as the most selective by family background, with about 70% of faculty having university-educated parents.
These fields show especially limited representation from low-SES families.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

Nearly 40% of professors come from families without university-educated parents.
But across cohorts, professors from low-SES families have become less common in more recent generations.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

But these gaps are explained by who completes a PhD — not by barriers after the PhD.
Once individuals hold a doctorate, parental background — whether measured by education, earnings, or professor titles — no longer predicts who becomes a professor.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

The likelihood of becoming a professor rises sharply when considering both parental education and parental earnings together. Children from high-education, high-income families are vastly overrepresented in the professoriate.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school.
• Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 21d

The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!

Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net

#ECSR2026

Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!

Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs

Recognizing foreign qualifications and providing language training could improve immigrants’ access to better-paying positions.

www.nature.com

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Aug 13

Two awards in one week to our "Great Separation" article in AJS, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot!

Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 13

One year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive:

- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th

- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)

Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 24

It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Aug 8

a classic!

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · Aug 7

It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Aug 7

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to

The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies

O Godechot, et al
American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Aug 7

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to

The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies

O Godechot, et al
American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 23

Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs

go.nature.com/40ripuF

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs.

go.nature.com

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Danmarks Radio, Denmark

Nyt studie: Indvandrere tjener mindre og har sværere adgang til højtlønnede job

Indvandrere tjener gennemsnitligt 9,2 procent mindre end etniske danskere. I andre lande i Europa og Nordamerika er lønforskellen højere.

www.dr.dk

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 18

de Volkskrant, Netherlands

@volkskrant.nl

Migranten krijgen minder betaald dan Nederlanders, ook bij precies hetzelfde werk

Immigranten verdienen gemiddeld 15 procent minder dan vergelijkbare Nederlanders zonder migratieachtergrond. Ook als ze precies hetzelfde werk bij dezelfde werkgever doen, krijgen zij 5 procent minder...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 18

El Pais, Spain

@elpais.com

Los inmigrantes en España ganan un 29% menos que los trabajadores locales

La disparidad salarial entre extranjeros y nativos en suelo español es la más abultada entre las nueve economías desarrolladas que ha analizado Nature

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

@faznet.bsky.social

Zuwanderungs-Lohnlücke: Erstmals ergründet eine Studie die Ursachen genauer

Selbst mit gleichen Qualifikationen verdienen Migranten weniger als Einheimische. Das liegt aber weniger an einer direkten Diskriminierung bei der Bezahlung, zeigt eine neue Studie.

www.faz.net

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IAB @iabnews.bsky.social · Jul 17

📍 Immigrants to Europe and North America earn, on average, 17.9% less than natives, as they struggle to gain access to jobs in higher-paying industries, occupations and companies. Three-quarters of the pay gap between the two correspond to a lack of access to high-paying jobs for immigrants. (1/4)

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!

Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why

Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.

theconversation.com

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 17

does *not* change pattern that much

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 17

...but interestingly Canada behaves as one would expect if positive selection on education (i.e., gaps decrease slightly in model without adj for education). Also, between-country variation in hourly wages is relatively similar to annual earnings pattern.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yes, I agree--we've been digging into it as best we can. Models without adjustment for education (+/- geographic region of employment) is found in Ext Data Fig 8 (plus SI tables 33-35). Does change main pattern that much...

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