Ida Borg

Migrant rent penalties in the German housing market Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

The day after grant application deadline AND ski teacher test, I wake up with a fever and a cold. I guess I need to rest a bit.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Tomorrow, "my" PhD student @anatra.bsky.social will leave Stockholm University for Florence to be a visiting student for one semester at @eui-eu.bsky.social. Take care of her, Italy!

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

YouTube video by World Inequality Lab World Inequality Report 2026

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.

👇Share this thread, share the report!
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Their clock is not always correct, sometimes they like to party early mornings as well 🎉. Their brains are so small, i don’t understand how they can learn something at all.

How did our cats learn the clock? They mjau every morning just a few minutes before the alarm sounds.

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs

1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Yesterday, @anatra.bsky.social had her half-time seminar for her PhD! Half-baked doctor! I am very proud and looking forward to the coming years 🥳

Our accountant assured me I do have a job next year. And the year after that too. I am very fortunate.

Soon December and time to have look if I still have a job next year. Kind regards Externally funded researcher

Time to reconsider what I thought I would be able to finish before the year ends. The semester just started? But somehow we are mid-November?

Looking forward to teaching this training course on diff-in-diff.

Registration still possible!

Thank you so much for your thoughts! The competition is very hard, so many incredible researchers out there. I am happy I can continue to do research for a little while longer.

Congratulations to our colleagues Eva Andersson (PI), Ida Borg and Juta Kawalerowicz who received funding from Forte for a 3-year project on "How neighbourhood, school and crime redirect the individual’s life course". Grattis! @evaandersson.bsky.social @idaborg.bsky.social @jutakaw.bsky.social

I am thrilled to announce that my own project was not funded today. But I have a part in Eva Andersson’s project on crime, schools and children’s life-courses.

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

2. Målet med social blandning kan ändå förstås utifrån att vilja motverka negativa effekter av att växa upp i områden där fattigdom är koncentrerat.

1. Mix av upplåtelseformer och hustyper har marginell effekt på den sociala mixen eftersom det mesta som byggs idag sker i områden med medelinkomster.

New article w/ @jenjirayahirun.bsky.social: Exogamous 2nd gen immigrants in Sweden live further from parents than do endogamous immigrants, but closer than natives. But in terms of residential choices, exogamous immigrants are least likely to move near parents.

Min yngsta har börjat förskoleklass och just lärt sig att läsa. Ikväll ljudade hon B-A-J-S-K-O-R-V när hon tyckte att jag var tråkig.

I should make the move to R, but when to find the time? Sounds like a perfect course for me.

Read about Rosa Parks to my 5.5 yrs old. ”But people couldn’t sit with their friends in the bus??” I know, so strange it was a long time ago, I said.

Visited Gimo Herrgård to discuss Segregation research, beyond academia. Amazing talks and discussions. Happy to have met Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder.

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Få förstår hur utmattande det är att ringa runt till diverse företag och säga ”xx är död”, kan ni sluta skicka fakturor, när man själv knappt fattat att xx är död.

Självbilden är att jag röstar på samma, men sen på valdagen står jag där och bara kan inte. Så det blir olika, dock alltid på samma sida.

Glad that all the fellow stockholmers discovered the bike! Massive lines in the bike lanes today. A part of me I longing for when it gets cooler.

BOY (PLEASE FORGIVE ME)

Went to a concert tonight, by my self and had the most amazing time. Jenny Wilson is a genius. I danced for two hours straight open.spotify.com/track/3hJiVM...