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 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 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 research→ bit.ly/4mqXDDH
18.09.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
abstract of BWI article
🚨 New working paper: “Belgian wealth inequality, 1935-2022” (NBB WP 477).
▸ Top 1 % owns ≈22 % of net wealth - same as bottom 75 %
▸ Inequality strongly declined last century, stabilised in recent years
PDF 👉 www.nbb.be/en/media/17695
#EconSky #Belgium #WealthInequality
26.05.2025 17:52 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 New working paper 🚨
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 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Read the full paper here: wps-feb.ugent.be/Papers/wp_25_1104.pdf
30.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 New working paper 🚨
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 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
New paper: benjaminmoll.com/challenge/
29.11.2024 17:59 — 👍 160 🔁 41 💬 3 📌 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 — 👍 527 🔁 160 💬 50 📌 5
Legal historian @vubcore.bsky.social
Law, politics, diplomatic history. RT ≠ 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 – CEPR’s 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/
Championing social mobility through evidence-based programmes, agenda-setting research and policy advocacy: https://linktr.ee/thesuttontrust
🏠 Center for Social Inequality Studies
🔬 Home of Life Course Longitudinal Lab (LC3)
💻: https://r.unitn.it/en/soc/csis
The Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) is dedicated to excellence in research and graduate education in economics.
Non-profit research & grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas & policies that promote strong, stable & broad-based economic growth
equitablegrowth.org
Sociologist @ University of Oxford & Nuffield College | Lecturer in Social Policy @ Department of Social Policy and Intervention | PhD CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.dirkwitteveen.com/
Professor of Economics, Georgetown University. Co-editor at @qe_editors.
Lecturer in Economics at the University of Leeds. PhD from UMass Amherst. Labour economist. Inequality, care, gender, and time use.
https://sites.google.com/view/leilagautham/research
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/1580/dr-leila-gautham
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Research on the social and political foundations of modern economies.
📍 Cologne
Imprint: www.mpifg.de/2856/imprint
#jouwpolitiekmaandblad voor een sociale democratie. Sinds 1994
Incoming PhD Student at Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies, VUB | Erasmus Mundus Scholar 2022-24 | Socioeconomic Policy Enthusiast | Loves reading fiction + amateur cook for experimental vegetarian food
📍Delhi 🇮🇳 Brussels🇧🇪
PhD student @ubeconomics.bsky.social
No Marxist!
Typically on two wheels or two boards.
Interests: Environment, Public Sector, Ecological Marxism
Posts in en / de, may try fr / da / ca / es
