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Olivier Godechot

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 4d

Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.

Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 11d

La féminisation marche mieux que le neutre.

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(D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)

L’écriture inclusive, une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre

Une étude montre que les formulations d’écriture inclusive rendant visibles à la fois le masculin et le féminin – comme « étudiants et étudiantes » – sont les plus efficaces pour réduire les stéréotyp...

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Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Mark J. Brandt, Stefan Müller , and 10 more Dave O’Brien, Mark J. Brandt, Stefan Müller, Caroline Krafft, Nathan Nunn, Olivier Godechot, Justin H. Kirkland, Étienne Ollion, Brian Keegan, Christopher Barrie, Alice Reid, Joost van Spanje, Maria Sobolewska

LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 28d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

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Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Catarina Leão @catarinaleao.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today marks the end of my fellowship at AxPo @sciencespo.bsky.social. Grateful for the freedom to pursue my research and for the brilliant colleagues who made this journey so rewarding. In particular @oliviergodechot.bsky.social, Allison Rovny, Noam Titelman, Ulysse Lojkine, Meryem Bezzaz.

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 25

French firms tend to specialize in certain types of inequalities. Firms in the finance sector have a larger gender gap but a smaller migrant gap. In contrast, firms in the retail, accommodation, and social services sectors have smaller gender gaps but larger migrant gaps.
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 25

Using DADS admin data from France (1996-2021), we find that firms with higher gender gaps have lower migrant gaps, and vice versa. Firms with high gender gaps are also highly unequal within gender/migrant categories. In contrast, firms with high migrant gaps are firms are less unequal.
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 25

And the question is not easy to answer, either. Gender and migrant wage gaps are estimated using the same underlying variable: wages in the same establishments. There’s a big risk of capturing artifacts. Therefore, in the appendices, lots of equations we had a hard time solving…
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 25

– So?
– Well, we’re just asking a very simple question.
Are firms that are highly unequal in terms of gender also highly unequal in terms of migration origin?
It’s trivial once you know the answer… But before that, the answer is not easy to guess… Try!
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 25

– Hmm … INTERSECTIONALITY? This must be dangerously WOKE…
– Nope
– Oh ... “organizational intersectionality”? This must talk of the complexity of the lived experiences of those facing in organizations multiple prejudices at the intersection of many minorized dimensions.
– Not really either.
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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 25

In the midst of the summer torpor, our paper with @msafi.bsky.social and Matthew Soener, “Organizational Intersectionality” was finally published at @wesjnl.bsky.social .
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What is it about? Small thread.
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Reposted by Olivier Godechot, Fabián Muniesa, Armelle Andro , and 2 more Olivier Godechot, Fabián Muniesa, Armelle Andro, Xavier Molénat, Víctor Pereira

Émilien Ruiz @mxli1.bsky.social · Aug 16

Romain Huret annonce le décès d’Éric Brian (www.linkedin.com/posts/romain...). C’est une grande perte. Connu pour son caractère bien trempé, Éric Brian etait d’une très grande générosité intellectuelle
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Eric Brian en 2010 - Photo sur Wikipedia (https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Brian)

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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

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

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Aug 8

Michel Callon passed away July 28th. Following Latour, he narrowed down the performativity of science program to a domain where it was reasonable: economics. He was also a generous and open-minded mentor to a whole generation of economic sociologists.
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu?fbclid=IwY2x...

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Sylvain Bourmeau @sylvainbourmeau.bsky.social · Aug 7

Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · Aug 7

As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science:
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821

But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · Aug 7

So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!

Adam Gamoran @agamoran.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congrats to @andrewpenner.bsky.social and a host of co-authors on winning the award for significant scholarship from @isa-rc28.bsky.social, presented by RC president @jenniebrand.bsky.social.

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · Nov 7

I have the impression that there's some polarization going on out there. It's political, economic, social, geographic. It's in the votes, labor market, residence... Not sure we can fix. But you can study it.
AxPo is recruiting two postdocs on this topic:
www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Positions

AxPo Postdoctoral Researcher CfA 2025Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Positions at the AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po, Paris, FranceGeneral informationPo...

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · Feb 16

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee

Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires

It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

Dear Senator
I am writing as a constituent, former FAA air traffic controller (26 years) and current Airline Transport rated commercial pilot. On Friday, hundreds of FAA technicians and engineers were terminated. These technicians and engineers maintain every piece of equipment that keeps flying safe, from the radars to the ILS, to ATC automation. They were identified as "probationary" and there is a reasonable speculation that Al was used to "find" probationary employees, assuming that meant that they were new hires. That is not an accurate assumption. A newly hired federal employee is probationary and may be subject to at will termination, but the term
"probationary" is also applied to promotions, to describe not that you are a probationary employee, but if the promotion or transfer is not successful, the employee would return to the pre-promotion position. That allows the government to retain needed expertise.
However, even that is not the case in these positions as workers were indeed succeeding in their new roles.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · Jul 27

My today's Substack.

Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · Jul 26

New Capitalism II:
Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...

New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality

Are all class-based societies unequal?

branko2f7.substack.com

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Mark E. Schaffer, Alexander Wuttke , and 4 more Richard S.J. Tol, Mark E. Schaffer, Alexander Wuttke, Olivier Godechot, Joshua Goodman, Simon Wiederhold, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Jul 20

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor.

It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).

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Reposted by Mark Williams, Olivier Godechot, Maria Abreu , and 3 more Mark Williams, Olivier Godechot, Maria Abreu, Patrick Präg, Andrew M. Penner, Anton Grau Larsen

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Reposted by Paul Glasziou, Olivier Godechot, Neil Lee , and 1 more Paul Glasziou, Olivier Godechot, Neil Lee, Melanie Simms

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jul 9

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last"

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com

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Reposted by Steven Roberts, Olivier Godechot, Patrick Präg

Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Why is environmentalism class divided?

My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich.

🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · May 15

You feel exploited... but it's not very visible. @ulojkine.bsky.social unveils its roots in Le fil invisible du capital/ The Invisible Thread of Capital, his new book on cutting edges theories of exploitation (100% Marx & neoclassics compatible). May 19th, 1 PM. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/even...