Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social
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Social demographer | Families, spatial mobility, inequality, life course | ERC grant @lifelongmove.bsky.social | CED & Sociology dept at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona https://vidalsergi.wordpress.com/ https://webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove
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Proud (and a little sad to see him go): Jianji Chen defended last week his PhD in Demography at UAB—on family dynamics & older adults’ well-being. Congrats, Dr. Chen, and all the best ahead!
Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social
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Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025.

Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.
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💫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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svidal.bsky.social
Excellent conference and powerful session on housing precarity organized by @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social. Homelessness, gender inequalities, and homeownership dynamics. I am grateful for the insights and discussion!
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Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.

Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
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lifelongmove.bsky.social
Great energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 !
@iussp.bsky.social

Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis
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Last Friday, Min Zhu successfully defended her PhD in Demography at UAB- @cedemografia.bsky.social with a dissertation on couple migration in China. Congratulations, Min, on this achievement - and best wishes for your career ahead!
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lifelongmove.bsky.social
Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”!

Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.

Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!
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Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social
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Yo tb fuí a verla ayer y me encantó
svidal.bsky.social
📢 Publication alert!

In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Redirecting
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Get updates on other research published by members of the lifelongmove project team here: @lifelongmove.bsky.social
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Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.
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Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!

How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?

Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.
lifelongmove.bsky.social
Fresh from #PAA2025! Our PI Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social & co-authors presented new findings on the impact of lifelong neighborhood disadvantage and residential trajectories on socioeconomic outcomes.

📍📈 Stay tuned for more
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📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳
🗓️ Deadline: May 15
📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#Migration #Lifecourse
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📢 Call for Papers
We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
Call for Papers for the 2026 Special Issue | Comparative Population Studies
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The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky.
Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
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Guess who’s on BlueSky?

🙌 @eaps.bsky.social 🙌

A must-follow!
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Today we had Naza Panichella visiting at @cedemografia.bsky.social UAB, and gave us a great lecture on couple's internal migration and gender inequality in six European country
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Great opportunity to work on a very interesting research project with a great team 👇👇👇
pmlersch.bsky.social
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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