Emma Ischinsky

📢 Apply by next Wednesday to join our Visiting Researchers Program!

📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply!

Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team.

www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

My article about the political activity of the inner circle and wealthy owners is out in @sfjournal.bsky.social! You can read it here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Some highlights in the thread.

Gute Bildung nur für Reiche? Die Sache mit den Privatschulen Es gibt immer mehr Privatschulen. Bereichern sie das Schulsystem? Oder spalten sie die Gesellschaft?

Was steckt hinter dem Trend zur Privatschule? Im fluter-Artikel von @julialauter.bsky.social ordnet @karenlillie.bsky.social ein:

„Viele Eltern der Mittelschicht suchen mit Blick auf die Polykrisen unserer Gesellschaft die Abgrenzung zu ärmeren Gesellschaftsschichten.“

www.fluter.de/privatschulen

Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

*Call for Applications*

We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy!

Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

Please share widely!

@mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social

📢Call for abstracts: special issue in Historical Social Research on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality.
• Feb 15: Submission of abstracts
• Aug 15: Submission of manuscript
We look forward to receiving your abstracts! #socsky #polsky #polisky @jansg.bsky.social
dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/call_s...

Hier der Link:
Tisch, D., & Ischinsky, E. (2023). Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years. Socius, 9. doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Unsere Studie (@dariatisch.bsky.social) zur historischen Kontinuität der größten deutschen Vermögen, 2023 in @sociusjournal.bsky.social erschienen, wird in der neuen Ausgabe des @maxplanck.de Magazins zusammengefasst und in aktuelle Entwicklungen der Vermögensungleichheit eingeordnet. Check it out!

Hi! I would love to join!

Great initiative! I would also love to be included!

The rise of the owners and the neo-accumulationist imaginary: Changing perceptions of private wealth in Finnish business media, 1981–2021 The rise of the super-rich has been a defining characteristic of recent decades. This paper analyses the cultural underpinnings of contemporary private wealth accumulation, by exploring the changes...

My new article out in Economy and Society, analysing the rise of the rich and the figure of the wealthy private owner in Finnish business media. I suggest we are moving towards a neo-accumulationist regime characterised by new admiration of private accumulation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The gender (tax) gap in parental transfers. Evidence from administrative inheritance and gift tax data Abstract. This study examines how inheritance and gift taxation, in combination with gendered parental transfer behavior, exacerbate gender wealth inequali

In our @schechtlm.bsky.social SER article we show that daughters are less likely than sons to receive parental transfers, values tend to be lower & daughters receive different types of asset. This translates into a gender tax gap of 2% for inheritances and 22% for gifts.
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Erbschaftssteuer: Warum Frauen weniger erben und trotzdem mehr Steuern zahlen Egal, wie reich Frauen werden, Männer sind im Schnitt reicher. Das liegt nicht nur am Gender-Pay-Gap, sondern auch daran, wie die deutsche Steuer Frauen diskriminiert.

@schechtlm.bsky.social und ich zeigen (osf.io/preprints/so...), dass das deutsche Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuerrecht in Verbindung mit geschlechterspezifischem elterlichen Transferverhalten zu einem Gender-Tax-Gap führt. Erklärt hier:
www.zeit.de/geld/2023-10... #GenderSky #Sociology