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martinhallsten.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at SOFI (Swedish Institute for Social Research), Stockholm University
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🧵 Should we subsidize elder care more? 1/ A new thesis by IIES’s Patrizia Massner uses Swedish data to explore big social challenges - aging populations, economic inequalities, and the role of public policy. 👇 www.su.se/institute-fo... #econsky

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Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

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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

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We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

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DP20210 Equality for Granted: What Happens when Discrimination in Academia Becomes Salient? cepr.org/publications... via @cepr_org

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Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉 Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century. Great work, Xiaojie! #PhD #education #sociology

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Terrific dissertation defense by Xiaojie Xu at @sofi.su.se today and proud supervisor moment for me. Thanks @hermwerf.bsky.social for doing us the honors!

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You: "I should really submit that abstract on wealth inequality." Also you: waits until the last possible second. 🔥 THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND IS NOW 🔥 CfP for our Wealth Conference closes APRIL 28. Submit or regret it! www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

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Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution" Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

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We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

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Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!

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Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.

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🍕 🥂 Have you submitted to our conference yet? We’re waiting for you — if not, we might have to analyze the social dynamics of ‘people who miss great events’! www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

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When is Hammarskjöld going to clean your office? Very happy to have this article from my PhD now published in RSSM, on surnames and social mobility: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs... 🥳

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We're hiring! Vacancies for 3 permanent research positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level at NIDI (The Hague), in the field of labor market studies, inequality, and human geography/spatial studies. #Sociology #Demography #SocialSciences #Economics nidi.nl/en/about-us/...

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New @ifau.bsky.social WP out with Martin Nybom and Gunnar Brandén: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Pu... The social mobility literature has organized around three types of measures: intergenerational regressions, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity (EOp) indices. 1/4

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Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics! tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc

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Ukraine needs support from Europe now more than ever before. This is out way of maintaining that. Pass on the word!

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Pythagoras ask!

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We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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Congratulations @roujman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, who has been appointed Associate Professor at SOFI! Roujman Shahbazian began his doctoral studies here in 2013 and has been an active researcher at the institute ever since.

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