Petra Sauer
@petrasauer.bsky.social
Social scientist, University of Fribourg and Vienna University of Economics and Business - researching social stratification, intergenrational mobility, graduate labour market outcomes and higher education institutions
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Petra Sauer
@petrasauer.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Fresh new INEQ working paper
All the Same? – Job Quality and Heterogeneity Among the Self-employed
with Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer
www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/rese...
All the Same? – Job Quality and Heterogeneity Among the Self-employed
with Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer
www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/rese...
Amazing research!
You can read our new research on inequalities in access to professional occupations, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org here
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
EconPapers: Inequalities in Access to Professional Occupations
By Catherine Dilnot, Lindsey Macmillan and Claire Tyler; Abstract: Previous research has shown that disadvantaged young people are less likely to work in professional occupations than
econpapers.repec.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Amazing research!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.
Important takeaway for funding bodies ...
The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
The Rise of Stratification Research in Sociology, Economics, and Political Science
How social stratification became increasingly studied in sister fields of sociology
hermwerf.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Important takeaway for funding bodies ...
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Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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🎉 Wir feiern 10 Jahre INEQ!
Bei unserer Jubiläumsfeier vor rund einem Monat haben wir erstmals unser Video zu „10 Jahren INEQ“ gezeigt – jetzt ist es auch online auf short.wu.ac.at/ineq_10_jahre verfügbar.
🎥 Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die Teil dieser Reise waren – und sind.
#INEQ
Bei unserer Jubiläumsfeier vor rund einem Monat haben wir erstmals unser Video zu „10 Jahren INEQ“ gezeigt – jetzt ist es auch online auf short.wu.ac.at/ineq_10_jahre verfügbar.
🎥 Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die Teil dieser Reise waren – und sind.
#INEQ
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🎉 Wir feiern 10 Jahre INEQ!
Bei unserer Jubiläumsfeier vor rund einem Monat haben wir erstmals unser Video zu „10 Jahren INEQ“ gezeigt – jetzt ist es auch online auf short.wu.ac.at/ineq_10_jahre verfügbar.
🎥 Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die Teil dieser Reise waren – und sind.
#INEQ
Bei unserer Jubiläumsfeier vor rund einem Monat haben wir erstmals unser Video zu „10 Jahren INEQ“ gezeigt – jetzt ist es auch online auf short.wu.ac.at/ineq_10_jahre verfügbar.
🎥 Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die Teil dieser Reise waren – und sind.
#INEQ
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📢 Call for Papers 📢
💡 19th Winter School on #Inequality & #SocialWelfare Theory (IT19) Jan. 6-10, 2026 in Alba di Canazei.
🤝 Organized by @cesifo.org, the University of Verona & @liser.lu
⏳ Application deadline: Nov. 27
🔗 Click to discover the confirmed speakers + more: liser.lu/events/canaz...
💡 19th Winter School on #Inequality & #SocialWelfare Theory (IT19) Jan. 6-10, 2026 in Alba di Canazei.
🤝 Organized by @cesifo.org, the University of Verona & @liser.lu
⏳ Application deadline: Nov. 27
🔗 Click to discover the confirmed speakers + more: liser.lu/events/canaz...
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
📢 Call for Papers 📢
💡 19th Winter School on #Inequality & #SocialWelfare Theory (IT19) Jan. 6-10, 2026 in Alba di Canazei.
🤝 Organized by @cesifo.org, the University of Verona & @liser.lu
⏳ Application deadline: Nov. 27
🔗 Click to discover the confirmed speakers + more: liser.lu/events/canaz...
💡 19th Winter School on #Inequality & #SocialWelfare Theory (IT19) Jan. 6-10, 2026 in Alba di Canazei.
🤝 Organized by @cesifo.org, the University of Verona & @liser.lu
⏳ Application deadline: Nov. 27
🔗 Click to discover the confirmed speakers + more: liser.lu/events/canaz...
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New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
1/2
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
1/2
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same
academic.oup.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
1/2
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
1/2
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Kick-off of today's workshop: Who’s afraid of #Gender? Lessons for research, #PolicyAdvocacy and action
🗣️ Prof. David Paternotte begins w/ an introductory lecture “Navigating [through/with] gender in society”
ℹ️ Discover the event program: www.liser.lu/events/Gende...
#GenderSky #Econsky
🗣️ Prof. David Paternotte begins w/ an introductory lecture “Navigating [through/with] gender in society”
ℹ️ Discover the event program: www.liser.lu/events/Gende...
#GenderSky #Econsky
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Kick-off of today's workshop: Who’s afraid of #Gender? Lessons for research, #PolicyAdvocacy and action
🗣️ Prof. David Paternotte begins w/ an introductory lecture “Navigating [through/with] gender in society”
ℹ️ Discover the event program: www.liser.lu/events/Gende...
#GenderSky #Econsky
🗣️ Prof. David Paternotte begins w/ an introductory lecture “Navigating [through/with] gender in society”
ℹ️ Discover the event program: www.liser.lu/events/Gende...
#GenderSky #Econsky
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Swiss Sociological Association Congress 2026- Fribourg 🇨🇭 Sep 2–4
We are welcoming workshop proposals until Nov 15. Semi-plenaries until Dec 15 ssa-congress26.sciencesconf.org
@sggfsseg.bsky.social @unifr.bsky.social @dessociales.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social
We are welcoming workshop proposals until Nov 15. Semi-plenaries until Dec 15 ssa-congress26.sciencesconf.org
@sggfsseg.bsky.social @unifr.bsky.social @dessociales.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Swiss Sociological Association Congress 2026- Fribourg 🇨🇭 Sep 2–4
We are welcoming workshop proposals until Nov 15. Semi-plenaries until Dec 15 ssa-congress26.sciencesconf.org
@sggfsseg.bsky.social @unifr.bsky.social @dessociales.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social
We are welcoming workshop proposals until Nov 15. Semi-plenaries until Dec 15 ssa-congress26.sciencesconf.org
@sggfsseg.bsky.social @unifr.bsky.social @dessociales.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social
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Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
🎓 Two PhD positions at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern! Join our team (Chair of Social Change and Inequality, Ass. Prof. Dr. Benita Combet) to research career development inequalities by gender, ethnicity & social background. Apply by Nov 21.
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
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Deadline: Monday (Nov 3). The Stone Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is hiring. Applications are open for two postdocs - one focused on #mobility and #poverty; the other on #wealth. Consider spending two years with us in🎶"New York New York (So Nice they Named it Twice)"!
Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Deadline approaching - November 3! Two postdoc positions at the GC-CUNY @stone-lis.bsky.social center in New York City. One position is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth #inequality. Info and link below. #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky 👇👇👇
bit.ly/40TZR6J
bit.ly/40TZR6J
Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.
bit.ly
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Deadline approaching - November 3! Two postdoc positions at the GC-CUNY @stone-lis.bsky.social center in New York City. One position is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth #inequality. Info and link below. #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky 👇👇👇
bit.ly/40TZR6J
bit.ly/40TZR6J
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📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
In 2026, Swiss online journal socialpolicy.ch celebrates its 10th birthday. Abstracts are welcome until Nov 15th for a special issue, focusing on a decade of dynamic developments and critical transformations in the field of social policy.
www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...
www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...
October 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In 2026, Swiss online journal socialpolicy.ch celebrates its 10th birthday. Abstracts are welcome until Nov 15th for a special issue, focusing on a decade of dynamic developments and critical transformations in the field of social policy.
www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...
www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...
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FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!
@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:
🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:
🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!
@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:
🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:
🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
September 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
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📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!!
⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.
Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.
Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.
Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.
Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!!
⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.
Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.
Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.
Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.
Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨
Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!
Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨👩👦👦
Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!
Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨👩👦👦
Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
September 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇
This is a really cool paper!
@hunterwyork.com, PhD Candidate of Sociology at Princeton University , shared his new research on economic outcome stratification among workers by field of study and institutions. Please check out the paper on his website 👆 or email him.
August 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is a really cool paper!
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Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social
Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US
Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye
academic.oup.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social
Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
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📣 Last call for applications! 📣
The deadline for applications is approaching (August 25th) but there are still spots available for #TNSquare25.
You don't want to miss it!
Link to application here: webapps.unitn.it/form/en/Web/...
The deadline for applications is approaching (August 25th) but there are still spots available for #TNSquare25.
You don't want to miss it!
Link to application here: webapps.unitn.it/form/en/Web/...
August 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📣 Last call for applications! 📣
The deadline for applications is approaching (August 25th) but there are still spots available for #TNSquare25.
You don't want to miss it!
Link to application here: webapps.unitn.it/form/en/Web/...
The deadline for applications is approaching (August 25th) but there are still spots available for #TNSquare25.
You don't want to miss it!
Link to application here: webapps.unitn.it/form/en/Web/...
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From the INEQ Working Paper Series 📚
In WP 33, @petrasauer.bsky.social, Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer propose a typology of self-employment based on job quality.
📄 Find the paper: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_wp_33
#INEQ #INEQ_WP
In WP 33, @petrasauer.bsky.social, Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer propose a typology of self-employment based on job quality.
📄 Find the paper: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_wp_33
#INEQ #INEQ_WP
July 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
From the INEQ Working Paper Series 📚
In WP 33, @petrasauer.bsky.social, Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer propose a typology of self-employment based on job quality.
📄 Find the paper: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_wp_33
#INEQ #INEQ_WP
In WP 33, @petrasauer.bsky.social, Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer propose a typology of self-employment based on job quality.
📄 Find the paper: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_wp_33
#INEQ #INEQ_WP
Anybody good ideas for research on how the factors that explain wages change along the distribution, and are potentially substantially different at the very top?
July 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Anybody good ideas for research on how the factors that explain wages change along the distribution, and are potentially substantially different at the very top?
True, fresh-from-the-press research & important research, but still one "research" too much 😅
Fresh-from-the-press research important research on stratification in Chilean higher education.
First paper of my PhD is out in RSSM!
Title: Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education?
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
I appreciate the huge support from my supervisors, @pengzell.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Below, I briefly summarize the paper.
Title: Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education?
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
I appreciate the huge support from my supervisors, @pengzell.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Below, I briefly summarize the paper.
July 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
True, fresh-from-the-press research & important research, but still one "research" too much 😅