Sergi Vidal

Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!

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

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.

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

💫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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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!

@lifelongmove.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...

📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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.

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

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!

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!

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

• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)

Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…

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📢 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.

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Get updates on other research published by members of the lifelongmove project team here: @lifelongmove.bsky.social

Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.

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.

📢 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

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”

Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

📢 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...

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!

Guess who’s on BlueSky?

🙌 @eaps.bsky.social 🙌

A must-follow!

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

Great opportunity to work on a very interesting research project with a great team 👇👇👇

DECIPHE Research Project

And we do have a website now: https://www.deciphe.eu/

👇👇👇Thrilled to see this collaboration with @pertzikovitz and @ValkHelga published! 📢 We examine how childhood moves underlie partnership stability in adulthood, to contribute to our understanding of the long-term impacts of residential mobility! @lifelongmove

One more month to submit your abstract for the International Population Conference, to be held in Brisbane in July 2025 iussp.org/fr/page/what...

(5)    To build a microsimulation model on the demographic conditions of intergenerational persistence for predicting future scenarios.

(3)    To estimate the intergenerational persistence in homeownership across European countries, regions, and birth cohorts.
(4)    To discover drivers of the variation in the intergenerational persistence across countries, regions, and birth cohorts with a focus on demographic conditions.