Petra Sauer

Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

Deadline approaching - November 3! Two postdoc positions at the GC-CUNY @stone-lis.bsky.social center in New York City. One position is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth #inequality. Info and link below. #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky 👇👇👇

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📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social

Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...

📆 Deadline 16 November 2025

In 2026, Swiss online journal socialpolicy.ch celebrates its 10th birthday. Abstracts are welcome until Nov 15th for a special issue, focusing on a decade of dynamic developments and critical transformations in the field of social policy.

www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!

@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:

🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility

Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
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📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!!

⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025.

Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM.

Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

This is a really cool paper!

Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

📣 Last call for applications! 📣

The deadline for applications is approaching (August 25th) but there are still spots available for #TNSquare25.
You don't want to miss it!

Link to application here: webapps.unitn.it/form/en/Web/...

From the INEQ Working Paper Series 📚
In WP 33, @petrasauer.bsky.social, Anna Schwarz and Johanna Hofbauer propose a typology of self-employment based on job quality.
📄 Find the paper: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_wp_33
#INEQ #INEQ_WP

Anybody good ideas for research on how the factors that explain wages change along the distribution, and are potentially substantially different at the very top?

True, fresh-from-the-press research & important research, but still one "research" too much 😅

Fresh-from-the-press research important research on stratification in Chilean higher education.

I can only underline this!

RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities 20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers

RC28’s first online thematic meeting🎉This online meeting will be free of charge. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026 and will be hosted virtually by the Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS), a Sciences Po/CNRS unit, in Paris.

More info 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal

Very happy to be part of this special issue on "Gender and Wealth Accumulation" in @sasemeeting.bsky.social next to a fantastic group of scholars ✨
@dariatisch.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @pmlersch.bsky.social @shayobrien.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Universities Under Siege: A Global Reckoning for Higher Education Governments worldwide are dramatically reshaping higher education, challenging long-held models and academic autonomy.

A well put reminder about four sources of legitimacy of higher education institutions, each of which being being in critical state. And about what we can learn from this in times when HEIs legitimacy is increasingly under scrunity. www.socialeurope.eu/universities...

Wow, what a full room. Wishing you an inspiring and fun week @lisdata.bsky.social!

It was great to chat with Steven Durlauf (@durlauf.bsky.social), Director of @ucstonecenter.bsky.social‬, about wealth inequality, social mobility, education, and the problem of owning a Picasso!

Curious who's behind INEQ? 🧠
We've just launched a starter pack featuring our team – researchers working on topics of inequality.
👉 Check it out and follow the people behind the research: "INEQs – meet the inner circle" go.bsky.app/B7ff4zJ

WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)

INEQ is now on Bluesky! ✨
Curious about research on inequality? So are we! 📈
We’re INEQ, based at @wuvienna.bsky.social. Follow us for research, publications and events on inequality.
For more, visit our homepage ⬇️ ineq.at

TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️

This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we
couldn’t be more excited. ✨

Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news!

For more spoilers, check our website:
event.unitn.it/tn-square/

#TNSquare25

Reminds me of Bowles and Gintis "Schooling in Capitalist America" ... yet their account concerned the US in the 70s, this is about the UK today.

What we know and do not know about social mobility https://osf.io/uznr6 This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social mobility research, examining both class/occupational mobility and income mobility. It traces the historical development of sociological and econom #sociology

Come join the delightful team at @umichstonecid.bsky.social. My colleague Pablo Mitnik is seeking a postdoc for *this fall.*

Rolling Downhill | Michael A Schultz, PhD | Substack A sociological perspective on economic mobility and the future of work. Click to read Rolling Downhill, by Michael A Schultz, PhD, a Substack publication.

Let me introduce you to my new blog on substack, Rolling Downhill at www.rollingdownhill.com!

A common image for economic mobility is a rock climber. A sociological approach lends itself to another image: a ball rolling down a hill. I unpack this analogy in the introductory post.

New article in Social Policy & Administration, with Kees van Kersbergen:
We explore how firms – often overlooked in debates on AI and social policy – perceive AI and what policy responses they support.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
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Young Economists Conference 2025 The Chamber of Labor and many partner organizations will host the Young Economists Conference on October 2 and 3, 2025 in Linz.

📢 Call for Papers: Die 14th Young Economists Conference findet am 2.&3.10. in Linz statt! Im Fokus: globale Krisen, Ungleichheit & sozial-ökologische Transformation.
🎓 Für Early-Career-Forscher:innen (WiWi, Soz, PoliSci)
📝 Abstracts bis 18.5. an yec@akwien.at
🔗 Infos: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/yec2025

Thank you!