📢NEW PUBLICATION:
Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ).
doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
Nordic ESPAnet Early Career Seminar!
Opportunity for Doctoral students and Postdocs to discuss their work, in an environment tailored to quality feedback.
Organised at @sofi.su.se and keynotes by @cassandraengeman.bsky.social and @janhelmdag.bsky.social
More info: espanet.org/nordic-semin...
Happy to share this new paper @jeppjournal.bsky.social with my great colleagues @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen.
In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Key points in 📈👇
For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Die weniger irreführende Überschrift wäre eigentlich: Deutsche Milliardäre reichen lieber dem Faschismus die Hand, als ein bisschen mehr Steuern zu bezahlen.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database
New paper by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social and myself, in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
You don’t “engage”, you amplify, mainstream and normalize.
Don’t pretend you do this for anything else than 💰💰💰
mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition
Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages:
osf.io/preprints/so...
Der Unterschied zwischen 110 Mio. und 100 Mrd. sind ungefähr 100 Mrd.
landkreispräsident fordert drastische kürzungen beim bürgergeld
Die Bürgergeld-Debatte dreht sich um Anreize und Druck. Die Realität: Das System verwaltet Armut – statt Sicherheit zu geben und Menschen in schwierigen Lebenslagen zu entlasten. ⤵️
Another year of great success and company at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 👏🏼 already looking forward to the next one 🫰🏼 @keonhison.bsky.social Andrew Zola & @janhelmdag.bsky.social in the pics from their final session
We'll be presenting our book at ESPAnet with a commentary by Anton Hemerijck. 🤩 My first book pitch session ever. #espanet2025
1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
I wish for a media that analyzes and contextualizes important events (without normalizing far-right actors and ideas) and a public that pays for that media.
Midsummer reading.
This or Elizabeth Strout, Sally Rooney or Richard Powers?
A fine outcome of @sustageable.fi @strateginen.bsky.social project with a great team.
The 2025 country-specific recommendations by the European Commission are out.
Any explicit pension related recommendations (beyond Recovery and Resilience Fund commitments)?
I read them all, so you don't have to 👇 (1/X)
commission.europa.eu/publications...
@cassandraengeman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.
www.su.se/swedish-inst...
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
‼️JOB ALERT‼️
Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work
100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc.
Apply by 31 May
DM me for questions👨💻👩🏫🦸
tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy
At the front door of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) at Wellington Square, Oxford.
Selfie together with Prof. Kenneth Nelson
Excited to share that I'm visiting the DSPI @dspi-oxford.bsky.social at the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk during Trinity term! Looking forward to engaging with researchers at DSPI and exchanging ideas. Many thanks to Kenneth Nelson for the invitation. Feel free to reach out to me if you’re around!
Many European politicians are trying to attract American researchers.
However, sometimes their branding doesn't match their domestic higher education policies. So I've written a guide on recent political developments in Swedish academia for prospective immigrants.
joenoonan.se/post/swedish...
Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆
He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET
New article with Lynn van Vugt, Bart Golsteyn, @levels.bsky.social and myself, in @cwfjournal.bsky.social.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@sofi.su.se
It was a pleasure! See you soon at DSPI! ☺️
This was an absolute pleasure! Grateful for the attentive audience and their feedback. Lots to do but highly motivated ✨ many thanks to my host @janhelmdag.bsky.social and my wonderful colleagues and friends @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @thaning.bsky.social @cassandraengeman.bsky.social until next time
Nice to see the authoritarian attack on academia in the U.S. being fully commodified by academic and media institutions around the world. PR and sales on the back of targeted and vulnerable academics. 👏
Taxes are the membership fee of a decent, civilized community.
To my knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed publication using the annual SIED 2000–23 data that we published last December. Very impressive and congrats to your publication, Nate!
📣NEW PUBLICATION
As a Korean who grew up in a low-income area in the 90s, I've long wondered why the gap between welfare laws and practice is rarely discussed.
doi.org/10.1177/1468...
Did German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
