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Andreas P. Weiland @apweiland.bsky.social · 16d

I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support!
#dgs2025

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Sep 8

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · Sep 5

Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes.
🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online
Check time in your time zone & register 👇

Seminar Series

The FemQuant seminar series brings together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research commitments and quantitative research methods. We aim …

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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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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · May 16

🗞️ Hot off the (last month’s) press: Happy to finally share that the paper with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social on family life course predictors of wealth has been published in @demresjournal.bsky.social ! See the whole article (open access 🫶) here: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Demographic Research - Uncovering what matters: Family life-course aspects and personal wealth in late working age (Volume 52 - Article 22 | Pages 689–740)

Volume 52 - Article 22 | Pages 689–740

www.demographic-research.org

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Apr 25

📚 NEW BOOK - open access!

Leading scholars explore how individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks are shaping modern #relationships.

Co-edited by CPC member @briennaph.bsky.social

🔖 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

@bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course
Research Handbooks in Sociology series
Edited by Dimitri Mortelmans, Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH), University of Antwerp, Belgium, Laura Bernardi, Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research (LIVES), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Brienna Perelli-Harris, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, UK
Publication Date: April 2025 ISBN: 978 1 80392 337 6 Extent: 394 pp
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.

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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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DIW Berlin @diw.de · Mar 19

Der #GenderPayGap macht sich auch in den Rentenansprüchen bemerkbar. Das belegt eine Studie von DIW-Forscher @phaan.bsky.social. Vor allem Mütter haben deutlich niedrigere Ansprüche als kinderlose Frauen. Die Anrechnung von Kindererziehungszeiten verringert die Lücke kaum
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

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Stefania Molina @stefaniamolina.bsky.social · Jan 22

Very excited to share that my first solo-authored paper is published in @demresjournal.bsky.social! ✨ I explore key trends in intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia over time and examine its relationship with infant health.

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · Jan 22

Research by @stefaniamolina.bsky.social examines the role of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the association between mothers' partnership status and infant health in Colombia. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Demographic Research - Unmarried motherhood and infant health: The role of intimate partner violence in Colombia (Volume 52 - Article 6 | Pages 141–178)

Volume 52 - Article 6 | Pages 141–178

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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · Jan 20

❓ How fair is the division of labor around first childbirth? Women feel it is most fair near birth but increasingly unfair as the child grows, while men’s perceptions remain unchanged.

▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access!

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Jan 17

Are you going to #PAA2025 and work with sequence analysis? Then submit your paper to our pre-PAA sequence analysis workshop, happening right before #PAA2025, same venue, on April 9 - free of charge! You only need a 200-word abstract 🚀 and can also just register for attendance.

See y'all there! 🤗

Sequence Analysis Association @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social · Dec 20

CALL FOR PAPERS!

One day workshop on sequence analysis on April 9, 2025 in Washington DC (before the @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting). Free of charge - onsite only event.

For expressing your interest in attending and/or presenting a paper: sequenceanalysis.org/conference/

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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · Jan 7

📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades

Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social
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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · Nov 29

We are hiring a postdoc for the deciphe.eu project at @diw.de. Work with @svidal.bsky.social, @sbeduk.bsky.social, S. Zinn, M. Medgyesi, myself, and other fantastic team members to understand the intergenerational persistence in homeownership in Europe! More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

DECIPHE Research Project

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António Valentim @antvalentim.bsky.social · Dec 17

I’m looking for an RA to work 20-30h during Jan-March 2025.
Ideally (quasi-)native speakers of Swedish, and it involves reading policy/legal docs related to education and climate change. 24.92GBP/hour

If you or someone you know are interested email me at [email protected]!

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Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social · Dec 4

The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference!

11-12 September 2025
Padua, Italy

Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025

See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c

@valeriabordone.bsky.social

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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...

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · Nov 19

New pub @europeansocieties.bsky.social!🚀 @apweiland.bsky.social & I explore intra-couple gaps in retirees’ fin. resources. We find (1) diff. in East↔️West Germany, (2)⬆️ gaps in pension than net wealth, (3) diff. in spouses’ employ. explain gaps in pension but not in net wealth: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · Nov 15

I made a Starter Pack!

But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary

Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT

@wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/63Jq944

#Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

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Sarah Schmauk @sschmauk.bsky.social · Nov 15

Could you add me as well ? 😊

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · Nov 14

Poverty and social policy started pack with EU focus. Wave to be added.
go.bsky.app/BQXryVx

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Sarah Schmauk @sschmauk.bsky.social · Apr 12

Don't miss the submission deadline for the Divorce Conference 2024 - this year we will meet in Berlin!
www.uni-due.de/divorce-conf...

Berlin Skyline with the Text "22nd Conference of the European Divorce Network, 10-11th October 2024, Berlin, Germany

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Apr 9

Im neuen Einstein Center Population Diversity (ECPD) kommen Forschende verschiedener Berliner Einrichtungen zusammen. Am Beispiel der Familie gehen sie den aktuellen demografischen Veränderungen nach. Heute nimmt es für 6 Jahre seine Forschung auf: einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2024/...

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Jan Heisig @jpheisig.bsky.social · Jan 11

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨

We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ

Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (f/m/x) / ID 242

The research units Skill Formation and Labor Markets (Director: Professor Heike Solga) and Health and Inequality (Head: Professor Jan Paul Heisig) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) are...

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DYNAMICS_PhD @dynamics.bsky.social · Dec 11

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers
@dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin.
Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Nov 9

Absolutely excited that the DFG has just approved the renewal of @dynamics.bsky.social 🥳🍾 We are delighted to train 20 additional PhD students working on demography, democracy and public policy during the next 5 years at Humboldt University and @hertieschool.bsky.social! www.dfg.de/service/pres...

DFG fördert zwölf neue Graduiertenkollegs

www.dfg.de

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