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Olivier Godechot

H-index: 21
Economics 41%
Political science 18%
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.

Reposted by: Olivier Godechot

catarinaleao.bsky.social
Today marks the end of my fellowship at AxPo @sciencespo.bsky.social. Grateful for the freedom to pursue my research and for the brilliant colleagues who made this journey so rewarding. In particular @oliviergodechot.bsky.social, Allison Rovny, Noam Titelman, Ulysse Lojkine, Meryem Bezzaz.
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
French firms tend to specialize in certain types of inequalities. Firms in the finance sector have a larger gender gap but a smaller migrant gap. In contrast, firms in the retail, accommodation, and social services sectors have smaller gender gaps but larger migrant gaps.
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oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Using DADS admin data from France (1996-2021), we find that firms with higher gender gaps have lower migrant gaps, and vice versa. Firms with high gender gaps are also highly unequal within gender/migrant categories. In contrast, firms with high migrant gaps are firms are less unequal.
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oliviergodechot.bsky.social
And the question is not easy to answer, either. Gender and migrant wage gaps are estimated using the same underlying variable: wages in the same establishments. There’s a big risk of capturing artifacts. Therefore, in the appendices, lots of equations we had a hard time solving…
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oliviergodechot.bsky.social
– So?
– Well, we’re just asking a very simple question.
Are firms that are highly unequal in terms of gender also highly unequal in terms of migration origin?
It’s trivial once you know the answer… But before that, the answer is not easy to guess… Try!
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oliviergodechot.bsky.social
– Hmm … INTERSECTIONALITY? This must be dangerously WOKE…
– Nope
– Oh ... “organizational intersectionality”? This must talk of the complexity of the lived experiences of those facing in organizations multiple prejudices at the intersection of many minorized dimensions.
– Not really either.
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mxli1.bsky.social
Romain Huret annonce le décès d’Éric Brian (www.linkedin.com/posts/romain...). C’est une grande perte. Connu pour son caractère bien trempé, Éric Brian etait d’une très grande générosité intellectuelle
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Eric Brian en 2010 - Photo sur Wikipedia (https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Brian)
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
One year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive:

- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th

- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Michel Callon passed away July 28th. Following Latour, he narrowed down the performativity of science program to a domain where it was reasonable: economics. He was also a generous and open-minded mentor to a whole generation of economic sociologists.
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu?fbclid=IwY2x...
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu
sylvainbourmeau.bsky.social
Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…
andrewpenner.bsky.social
As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science:
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821

But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.
andrewpenner.bsky.social
So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!
agamoran.bsky.social
Congrats to @andrewpenner.bsky.social and a host of co-authors on winning the award for significant scholarship from @isa-rc28.bsky.social, presented by RC president @jenniebrand.bsky.social.

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oliviergodechot.bsky.social
I have the impression that there's some polarization going on out there. It's political, economic, social, geographic. It's in the votes, labor market, residence... Not sure we can fix. But you can study it.
AxPo is recruiting two postdocs on this topic:
www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...
Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Positions
AxPo Postdoctoral Researcher CfA 2025Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Positions at the AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po, Paris, FranceGeneral informationPo...
www.sciencespo.fr

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louishenwood.bsky.social
Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee

Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires

It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role
Dear Senator
I am writing as a constituent, former FAA air traffic controller (26 years) and current Airline Transport rated commercial pilot. On Friday, hundreds of FAA technicians and engineers were terminated. These technicians and engineers maintain every piece of equipment that keeps flying safe, from the radars to the ILS, to ATC automation. They were identified as "probationary" and there is a reasonable speculation that Al was used to "find" probationary employees, assuming that meant that they were new hires. That is not an accurate assumption. A newly hired federal employee is probationary and may be subject to at will termination, but the term
"probationary" is also applied to promotions, to describe not that you are a probationary employee, but if the promotion or transfer is not successful, the employee would return to the pre-promotion position. That allows the government to retain needed expertise.
However, even that is not the case in these positions as workers were indeed succeeding in their new roles.
arindube.bsky.social
Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor.

It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).

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magneflemmen.bsky.social
Why is environmentalism class divided?

My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich.

🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
You feel exploited... but it's not very visible. @ulojkine.bsky.social unveils its roots in Le fil invisible du capital/ The Invisible Thread of Capital, his new book on cutting edges theories of exploitation (100% Marx & neoclassics compatible). May 19th, 1 PM. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/even...
Le fil invisible du capital
Ulysse Lojkine (postdoctorant CRIS & AxPo). Présentation de l'ouvrage
www.sciencespo.fr
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Et combien au féminin générique italisé....?
:)
oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Donald Trump's tariffs vs Lehman Brothers' default, which will produce biggest Krach ?

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