Are Skeie Hermansen
@aresherman.bsky.social
professor of sociology at the University of Oslo. trying to explain why some do, and some don't. "well, I can tell you about the river / or we could just get in"
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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...
www.nature.com
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
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Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences
www.pnas.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
🚨 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...
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
October 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚨 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...
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
🚨 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 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨 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 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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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
Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net
#ECSR2026
Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net
#ECSR2026
Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
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
August 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!
Two awards in one week to our "Great Separation" article in AJS, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot!
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...)
- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th
- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
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
August 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Two awards in one week to our "Great Separation" article in AJS, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot!
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It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
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...
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...
August 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
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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...
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...
August 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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...
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 research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs
go.nature.com/40ripuF
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
July 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs
go.nature.com/40ripuF
go.nature.com/40ripuF
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📍 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)
July 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📍 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)
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
July 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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!
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
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...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.
July 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.
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Stay tuned for much much more. Sad story.
Abel: I am writing in my capacity as Chair of I4R. Last year, I was contacted by a researcher that alerted me of potential scientific misconduct in a set of papers all using data from a specific NGO.🧵
February 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Stay tuned for much much more. Sad story.
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Same Neighborhood, Same Employer? Residential Networks and Workplace Concentration Among Immigrants: http://osf.io/bvues_v1/
February 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Same Neighborhood, Same Employer? Residential Networks and Workplace Concentration Among Immigrants: http://osf.io/bvues_v1/
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On the loss of a model of intellectual integrity and courage—Christopher Jencks. He showed us how to wade into troubled waters and come out the stronger for it.
@theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...
@theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...
The Exemplary Radical Skeptic
Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.
prospect.org
February 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
On the loss of a model of intellectual integrity and courage—Christopher Jencks. He showed us how to wade into troubled waters and come out the stronger for it.
@theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...
@theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...
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Accidentally download the appendix of an econ working paper:
January 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Accidentally download the appendix of an econ working paper:
New paper out in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Mats Lillehagen on workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation! We study why immigrants concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces and whether their native-born children gain better access to workplaces in the mainstream economy. #sociology
Entering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation
Abstract. Why do foreign-born immigrant workers often concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces? Do immigrants’ native-born children—who typically
academic.oup.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
New paper out in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Mats Lillehagen on workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation! We study why immigrants concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces and whether their native-born children gain better access to workplaces in the mainstream economy. #sociology
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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
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 24, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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
The application deadline for our PhD course on organizations and inequality at the University of Oslo is coming up this Sunday (April 21).
If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them!
If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them!
We are organizing a new Ph.D. course at the University of Oslo this spring (June 10–13 this year) that aims to provide a broad introduction to research on how organizations and employers contribute to creating or reducing inequality in the workplace.
For more info please see flyer and link below!
For more info please see flyer and link below!
April 17, 2024 at 7:37 AM
The application deadline for our PhD course on organizations and inequality at the University of Oslo is coming up this Sunday (April 21).
If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them!
If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them!
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📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor.
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
January 31, 2024 at 3:50 PM
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor.
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
We are organizing a new Ph.D. course at the University of Oslo this spring (June 10–13 this year) that aims to provide a broad introduction to research on how organizations and employers contribute to creating or reducing inequality in the workplace.
For more info please see flyer and link below!
For more info please see flyer and link below!
January 29, 2024 at 10:34 AM
We are organizing a new Ph.D. course at the University of Oslo this spring (June 10–13 this year) that aims to provide a broad introduction to research on how organizations and employers contribute to creating or reducing inequality in the workplace.
For more info please see flyer and link below!
For more info please see flyer and link below!
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MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]
January 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM
MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]
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In "Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs", we show that sorting of immigrant-background workers into lower-paying jobs on average accounts for about 4/5th of immigrant–native earnings difference
Our WP led by @aresherman.bsky.social is out:
osf.io/preprints/so...
Our WP led by @aresherman.bsky.social is out:
osf.io/preprints/so...
December 2, 2023 at 2:41 PM
In "Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs", we show that sorting of immigrant-background workers into lower-paying jobs on average accounts for about 4/5th of immigrant–native earnings difference
Our WP led by @aresherman.bsky.social is out:
osf.io/preprints/so...
Our WP led by @aresherman.bsky.social is out:
osf.io/preprints/so...