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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 8h

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Vacancies

Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · Jul 14

Many congrats again! Excited to have you back in Oxford.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Jul 3

Kicking off our (15th) annual Low Pay Britain report, @nyecominetti.bsky.social starts with the really good news - (hourly) low pay has been virtually eliminated.

It's fallen from a fifth of the workforce 15 years ago, to just 3.4% today (and 1% for workers aged 25 and over).

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Ive Marx @ivemarx.bsky.social · Jun 16

Next Wednesday 18 June at 5 pm I will be presenting Zero Poverty Society at the @dspi-oxford.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3e3...

Zero Poverty Society

During this seminar, Professor Marx will present some new findings from his book on the Zero Poverty Society, published by Oxford University Press (co-authored with Sarah Marchal), https://academic.ou...

talks.ox.ac.uk

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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

www.diw.de

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · Jun 1

Wow!

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Stephen P. Jenkins @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social · Apr 14

Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Public services are highly re-distributive to lower-income households.

Households in the lowest income quintile receive an average of £15,900 per year in in-kind benefits.

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/58qMKUI

Our analysis shows that public service provision is redistributive in general, providing
substantial in-kind support for lower-income households. For example, households in
the lowest income quintile receive an average of £15,900 per year in in-kind benefits each
year – 53 per cent more than the £10,400 received by the highest-income household
quintile (Figure 4). As a share of income, the lowest-income households receive in-kind
benefits worth 61 per cent of their income on an equivalised basis, while in-kind benefits
are worth just 4 per cent of incomes for the highest income decile

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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · Apr 2

Call for papers for ESPAnet #socialpolicy conference in Milan open until 24/4. We are chairing again a stream on #poverty and #inequality together with @zparolin.bsky.social @danieledmiston.bsky.social and @sbeduk.bsky.social.

✉️🖨️ www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...

ESPANET 2025

University of Milan, 27th-29th August 2025

www.espanetmilano2025.it

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 1

The latest data suggests child poverty and food insecurity have been rising for three consecutive years.

While there are some questions about the reliability of the data, the big picture trend and forecast also remain bad.

Chart showing proportion of children living in relative poverty, after housing costs: GB/UK
The trend over time suggests that child poverty is set to increase further

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Gabriele Mari @gmari.bsky.social · Mar 21

Re-upping this for we know so much about the harms of benefits cuts. Yet onto Labour-led ones..

The focus should be on abolishing the two-child limit and the benefit cap *for a start*, not on slashing PIP and Universal Credit.

Hardship has social, economic and health costs. So much for "savings".

Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Nov 1

New blog post - "Adolescents struggle with their mental health: blame austerity, not parents" - @gmari.bsky.social argues that the blame for adolescents struggling with mental health should be on Tory-led slashing of benefit programs, not on parents #austerity www.cost-ofliving.net/adolescents-...

Adolescents' mental health: blame austerity, not parents

Adolescents mental health: blame austerity, not parents. To help understand adolescents' mental health, look (also) at the benefit system

www.cost-ofliving.net

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Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social · Mar 5

This morning the justice secretary pointed to a “huge rise in the welfare budget” as justification for targeting benefit spending to make fiscal savings. So how big has the rise in welfare spending been?

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Ben Chrisinger @bchrisinger.bsky.social · Sep 10

#SNAP is already globally unusual as an antipoverty program. Cash-like, just for non-prepared foods, at approved retailers.

Evidence from cash transfer programs suggests there are easier ways to protect #foodsecurity.

🛟 🩺📊 🩺 #econsky #academicsky

Keeping SNAP in Line with Global Evidence on Food Security | NEJM

Proposals to introduce nutrition-based restrictions in SNAP ignore a global movement away from this kind of welfare program administration and toward systems that can more effectively improve health.

www.nejm.org

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Anders Bach-Mortensen @andersb-m.bsky.social · Feb 27

Come do a fully-funded PhD with me in Denmark at Roskilde University! You’ll be part of a new exciting project looking at social care privatisation in Denmark with a larger team of researchers at both Roskilde and Oxford University.

Deadline April 27: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD Fellowship – Mapping the role of civil society and non-profit organisations in delivering social services in Denmark

The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD of Social Science from September 1st, 2025, or a

candidate.hr-manager.net

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Feb 15

Graduate salaries have stagnated while the minimum wage has risen, leading to convergence between the two.

Two decades ago, the median graduate in a ‘graduate job’ had a salary 2.5 times that of a minimum wage worker, by 2023, the typical graduate earned 1.6 times a minimum wage worker.

Chart showing real full-time annual earnings for someone on the minimum wage and different categories of graduates: UK

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Michele Bavaro @mikbavaro.bsky.social · Feb 10

Hello BlueSky world!

I want to share with you a new work published on ITEJ with S. Boscolo and S. Tedeschi.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We study the looking forward trends in wealth inequality in Italy with a dynamic micro-simulation model.

Please see below for more details!

👇👇👇

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Sociologists working on inequality:

Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)

EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Picture of the main campus of the LMU Munich with students sitting on the grass and talking

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Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social · Dec 19

New working paper with P Achard, C Frodermann, D Müller &
@sanderwagner.bsky.social:using harmonized admin data for
#France & #Germany, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings. #sociology
#demography

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Dec 19

How important are inheritances in terms of total income into a household? Perhaps surprisingly, gifts and inheritances are only a small proportion. Thus, inheritance taxes may have little effect on inequality.

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Christoph Henking @chrishenking.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hi new Blusky community👋

I am a final year PhD student in Social Policy & Public Health, and I research social inequalities in mental health.

For example, what are the social determinants of mental healthcare use and helfpulness accross 111 countries?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Global inequalities in mental health problems: understanding the predictors of lifetime prevalence, treatment utilisation and perceived helpfulness across 111 countries

Socio-economic inequalities in mental health problems are found in measures covering prevalence, treatment utilisation, and treatment helpfulness. How…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · Dec 6

Now by sector, elite colleges are more concentrated for corporate and NGO positions than for billionaires and international orgs.

But for country leadership (central bankers and heads of state), the distribution is much more mixed, and Oxford edges out Harvard. (Yale still DNF)

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · Nov 29

3-year Postdoc Opportunity in the DECIPHE project at DIW Berlin.

You'll work closely with P. Lersch and collaborate with the team to study intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Europe.

Deadline: 15 Jan 2024

For job details: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

For DECIPHE: www.deciphe.eu

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Aleksi Karhula @aleksikarhula.bsky.social · Nov 25

Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2

How do work and family life courses differ in welfare states with varying emphasis on the state, market, and family for welfare provision? The authors compare life courses until midlife in Denmark, Fi...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Selçuk Bedük @sbeduk.bsky.social · Nov 17

I would also happy to be added.

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