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janhelmdag.bsky.social
Jan Helmdag
@janhelmdag.bsky.social
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Assistant prof @sofi.su.se & managing director of Social Policy Indicators (SPIN). Working on tax and social policy; political economy. Visiting researcher @dspi-oxford.bsky.social during Trinity term '25.
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Jan Helmdag @janhelmdag.bsky.social · Dec 5
New SPIN update with ANNUAL data 🔥

I’m very proud to announce a new update for the Social Insurance Entitlements dataset (SIED) that includes annual data on replacement rates for unemployment, sickness, accident, and old-age benefits for 37 countries from 2000 to 2023.

www.su.se/social-polic...
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Jan Helmdag @janhelmdag.bsky.social · 22h
Der Unterschied zwischen 110 Mio. und 100 Mrd. sind ungefähr 100 Mrd.
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Sanktionsfrei @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social · Sep 9
Die Bürgergeld-Debatte dreht sich um Anreize und Druck. Die Realität: Das System verwaltet Armut – statt Sicherheit zu geben und Menschen in schwierigen Lebenslagen zu entlasten. ⤵️
landkreispräsident fordert drastische kürzungen beim bürgergeld
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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · Aug 31
Another year of great success and company at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 👏🏼 already looking forward to the next one 🫰🏼 @keonhison.bsky.social Andrew Zola & @janhelmdag.bsky.social in the pics from their final session
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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · Aug 27
We'll be presenting our book at ESPAnet with a commentary by Anton Hemerijck. 🤩 My first book pitch session ever. #espanet2025
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Jul 4
1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jun 20
I wish for a media that analyzes and contextualizes important events (without normalizing far-right actors and ideas) and a public that pays for that media.
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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · Jun 19
Midsummer reading.

This or Elizabeth Strout, Sally Rooney or Richard Powers?

A fine outcome of @sustageable.fi @strateginen.bsky.social project with a great team.
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · Jun 4
The 2025 country-specific recommendations by the European Commission are out.

Any explicit pension related recommendations (beyond Recovery and Resilience Fund commitments)?

I read them all, so you don't have to 👇 (1/X)

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2025 European Semester: Country Specific Recommendations / Commission Recommendations
2025 European Semester: Country Specific Recommendations / Commission Recommendations
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · May 14
@cassandraengeman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

www.su.se/swedish-inst...
Cassandra Engeman appointed Associate Professor - Swedish Institute for Social Research
Cassandra Engeman, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at Stockholm University
www.su.se
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · Apr 30
‼️JOB ALERT‼️

Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work

100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc.
Apply by 31 May
DM me for questions👨‍💻👩‍🏫🦸

tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy
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Jan Helmdag @janhelmdag.bsky.social · Apr 28
Excited to share that I'm visiting the DSPI @dspi-oxford.bsky.social at the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk during Trinity term! Looking forward to engaging with researchers at DSPI and exchanging ideas. Many thanks to Kenneth Nelson for the invitation. Feel free to reach out to me if you’re around!
At the front door of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) at Wellington Square, Oxford. Selfie together with Prof. Kenneth Nelson
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · Apr 25
Many European politicians are trying to attract American researchers.

However, sometimes their branding doesn't match their domestic higher education policies. So I've written a guide on recent political developments in Swedish academia for prospective immigrants.

joenoonan.se/post/swedish...
Political Developments in Swedish Academia: A Guide For Americans – Joseph Noonan
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Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social · Apr 23
Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆

He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Apr 9
The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET

New article with Lynn van Vugt, Bart Golsteyn, @levels.bsky.social and myself, in @cwfjournal.bsky.social.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET
Young women are much more likely to be NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) than young men. Little is known about the extent to which institutional and policy contexts can shape the rela...
www.tandfonline.com
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Jan Helmdag @janhelmdag.bsky.social · Apr 9
It was a pleasure! See you soon at DSPI! ☺️
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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · Apr 9
This was an absolute pleasure! Grateful for the attentive audience and their feedback. Lots to do but highly motivated ✨ many thanks to my host @janhelmdag.bsky.social and my wonderful colleagues and friends @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @thaning.bsky.social @cassandraengeman.bsky.social until next time
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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · Apr 7
Working with a Swedish forest view today! So happy to be at @sofi.su.se and excited to be presenting our new @reusilience.bsky.social work on the childcare gap tomorrow at the Social Welfare & Stratification Seminar. Send good wishes!
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Mar 27
Nice to see the authoritarian attack on academia in the U.S. being fully commodified by academic and media institutions around the world. PR and sales on the back of targeted and vulnerable academics. 👏
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · Mar 24
Taxes are the membership fee of a decent, civilized community.
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Jellona @jellona.bsky.social · Mar 24
Being a right of center person and having spent years in another country with a class divide more pronounced than in Finland and a bigger wealth and income gap, I can relate.

Half a decade in the US and I learned to LOVE TAXES.
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Jan Helmdag @janhelmdag.bsky.social · Mar 18
To my knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed publication using the annual SIED 2000–23 data that we published last December. Very impressive and congrats to your publication, Nate!
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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Mar 17
Announcing the Global Work-Injury Policy database v2.0 and some preliminary applications of the data for 189 countries in 2020. Here a map of coverage rates. doi.org/10.1111/spol...
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Keonhi Son @keonhison.bsky.social · Mar 17
📣NEW PUBLICATION
As a Korean who grew up in a low-income area in the 90s, I've long wondered why the gap between welfare laws and practice is rarely discussed.
doi.org/10.1177/1468...
Discrepancy of social insurance between laws and practices: Implementation challenges of maternity leave in 73 low- and middle-income countries - Keonhi Son, 2025
Although comparative welfare research has long criticized that the social insurance system in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) fails to cover the under-...
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Mar 14
Did German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Mar 14
Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?
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joshuakdubrow.bsky.social @joshuakdubrow.bsky.social · Mar 9
Trump bans sociology concepts. Why? Because sociology is dangerous to authoritarians.

thesociology.place/2025/03/09/s...
Sociology is dangerous! Why authoritarians and their supporters attack sociology
The Trump Administration censors sociological knowledge In 2025, the Trump Administration banned words that sociologists regularly use from appearing on government websites and publicly-funded scho…
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Mar 8
I'm travelling to New York City to participate in a “parallel event” of the United Nations Council on the Status of Women, in NYC, presenting research on the situation of single mothers. On international women's day!
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