Ever wondered whether capital or labor income makes individuals move up the income ladder? So did my fantastic co-authors @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @robertoiacono.org and I!
Short answer: It's mostly LABOR income! 1/2
07.10.2025 13:05 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
In a new paper, Coleman & Lukina re-examine assortative matching literature using new rank correlation measures. Contrary to previous results, they find that assortative matching actually rose from the 1960s through the 1980s to 2013, rather than flattening out.
Read their researchโ bit.ly/4mqXDDH
18.09.2025 19:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
abstract of BWI article
๐จ New working paper: โBelgian wealth inequality, 1935-2022โ (NBB WP 477).
โธ Top 1 % owns โ22 % of net wealth - same as bottom 75 %
โธ Inequality strongly declined last century, stabilised in recent years
PDF ๐ www.nbb.be/en/media/17695
#EconSky #Belgium #WealthInequality
26.05.2025 17:52 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐จ New working paper ๐จ
I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
#EconSky #WealthMobility
30.01.2025 13:48 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Read the full paper here: wps-feb.ugent.be/Papers/wp_25_1104.pdf
30.01.2025 13:49 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐จ New working paper ๐จ
I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
#EconSky #WealthMobility
30.01.2025 13:48 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
New paper: benjaminmoll.com/challenge/
29.11.2024 17:59 โ ๐ 160 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 12
Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality.
Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added.
go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
26.11.2024 13:08 โ ๐ 527 ๐ 160 ๐ฌ 50 ๐ 5
Fresh at Bluesky, escaping the X. Professor of Sociology. University of Oslo. Social stratification researcher. Currently a visiting researcher at DIW Berlin. Dedicated cat dad for 16 years
Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
Sociology MA student @LMU / RA @MPISOC
Postdoc @Princeton; Sociology PhD @UPenn.
Social stratification, social mobility, wealth, labor markets, education, sociology, and economics.
I mostly repost interesting research and resources.
Doctoral researcher in Social Sciences at University of Luxembourg, Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality
Housing | Wealth inequality | Welfare states comparison | Low-fertility
Personal page: https://sites.google.com/view/yuting-li
PhD student, Department of Political Economy, King's College London
Social Norms | Identity๏ฝHousing Inequality | Public Economics
PostDoc Trento (IT) | PhD in Sociology | Family, wealth, life course | @csisunitn.bsky.social | https://sites.google.com/view/davidegritti/
Sociologist at DIW Berlin/SOEP and Humboldt-Universitรคt zu Berlin | https://pmlersch.github.io/
Social scientist, Paris-Dauphine University, Institut Universitaire de France. Economic sociology, sociolegal studies, family, gender, social classes, wealth inequality, elite studies.
New project: gender and wealth accumulation in Europe
Political scientist at Johns Hopkins University: democracy, inequality, political psychology, public opinion, behavioral everything. No relation. American by way of Estonia, Sweden, and England.
The Bluesky account of the American Sociological Association's Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section
https://www.asanet.org/asa_sections/inequality-poverty-and-mobility/
Legal historian @vubcore.bsky.social
Law, politics, diplomatic history. RT โ endorse.
https://vubcore.blogspot.com/p/frederik-dhondt.html
Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, Director of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Household Finance
Econ PhD student
@eui-eco.bsky.social
Sociologist @DIW.de /SOEP |
Research Group: "Life Course and Inequality" |
Research on wealth and labor market inequalities
Energy Economics & Econometrics. Phd candidate CORE / UCLouvain
Research Professor & Associate Director, Survey Research Center
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Research on substance use and health
VoxEU โ CEPRโs policy portal - promotes "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists". VoxEU columns cover all fields of economics broadly defined and are widely read.
The International Sociological Association's Research Committee 28 (abbreviated RC28) on Social Stratification and Mobility.
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/research-committees/rc28-social-stratification/
Understanding the causes and consequences of wealth and income inequalities, and possible remedies.
https://stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/
