Great new paper by @jenspeterthomsen.bsky.social and colleagues in SoE. An important contribution to a lively debate. Does all this welfare-state stuff in Scandinavia matter when it comes to intergenerational mobility in education. Apparently it does...
Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?
Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
Abstract This paper provides the fi rst systematic evidence on intergenerational wealth mobility in Germany using newly harmonized wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) spanning nearly three decades (1988–2017). Linking parents and their adult children, we estimate intergenerational rank–rank correlations (IRRC) in net wealth to assess the persistence of relative wealth positions across generations. We fi nd substantial wealth persistence in Germany, with an IRRC of around 0.25. Strikingly, this association remains highly stable across two observation windows (1988–2002 and 2002–2017), despite pronounced changes in the macroeconomic and institutional environment. Mobility curves indicate that the rank–rank relationship is approximately linear and exhibits little evidence of strong non-linearities at the top or bottom of the parental wealth distribution. We further document limited heterogeneity by off spring gender and birth cohort, and show that controlling for parental income and education attenuates the IRRC only modestly, suggesting that wealth captures an additional dimension of socioeconomic advantage beyond standard indicators of parental background. In an international perspective, Germany exhibits lower intergenerational wealth persistence than the United States. Exploratory evidence suggests that cross-country diff erences in homeownership may account for a sizable part of this gap, highlighting the potential role of housing-related institutions in shaping intergenerational wealth mobility.
scatter plot titled “The Great Gatsby Curve in Wealth.” X-axis: Wealth inequality in 2005 (more inequality to the right). Y-axis: Intergenerational wealth correlation (higher values mean less mobility). Countries country United States, Sweden, Italy, Taiwan, Norway, Germany, South Korea, Denmark, France, Australia, Japan inear trend line (slope ≈ 0.46) shows a positive relationship: countries with greater wealth inequality tend to have higher intergenerational wealth correlation, meaning lower wealth mobility. The United States and Sweden toward the upper-right; Denmark and France are lower-left; Germany in the right-middle.
Interesting working paper on wealth mobility in Germany by Markus Grabka, @pmlersch.bsky.social, @smaexie.bsky.social, and @drschnitzlein.bsky.social population-economics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...
For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...
#Armut von #Familien – #Alleinerziehenden reicht das Einkommen oft nicht. Von J. Brülle @janbruelle.bsky.social, P. Kleinschlömer @p-kleinschloemer.bsky.social & S. Will @swillecon.bsky.social.
ÖIF-Infodienst b e z i e h u n g s w e i s e AUSGABE 1/2026 #oif_bzw
➡️ www.oif.ac.at/informations...
Come work with us! Wir haben eine neue Promotionsstelle in der Bevölkerungs-, Familien- und/oder Bildungsökonomie www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...
With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome?
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
Text: Ungleichheit in Deutschland wächst I Die Ungleichheit in Deutschland hat einen traurigen Höchststand erreicht. Auch Armut nimmt zu. Der Anteil reicher Haushalte ist dagegen stabil. Mehr zum WSI-Verteilungsbericht 2025.
Seit 2018 haben #Ungleichheit & #Armut in Deutschland nochmal spürbar zugenommen und zuletzt einen Höchststand erreicht. Das zeigt der neue Verteilungsbericht unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social. Der Anteil armer Menschen stieg von 14,4 (2010) auf 17,7 % (2022). 🧵👇
📲 www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...
Ich freue mich über die positive Besprechung unsererseits Buches „Was von Corona übrig bleibt“ in der FAZ. Wer sich selbst ein Bild machen möchte kann sich das Buch im Open Access herunterladen. www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky
New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Meet Lane Kenworthy! Sociologist, political scientist, and one of the leading thinkers on equality and the welfare state.
We’re delighted to welcome him as one of the keynote speakers at the ISI Wealth Conference 2025 in Munich.
#isimunich #ISIWealthConference2025
Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social
♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support!
#dgs2025
The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!
Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net
#ECSR2026
Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
Overview of new publications by Katja Möhring and others from https://www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/
Very proud that 5 of my papers have recently been published 🤩! 🫶 to my co-authors!!!
1️Employment trajectories during Corona😷🔀
2️Motherhood penalty in wealth👩👧👦💰
3️Support for a right to work from home🏠✅
4️Wage development of family caregivers🫂📈
5️Handbook article on longitudinal analyses🧮👩🏫
Time to read📚🤓⬇️
🚨 New paper out! 🚨
Take a look at Ruth Abramowski's and my recent study on economic deprivation and intimate partner violence in Germany.
Published open access at @plosone.org 🔗👇
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Text: Mindestlohn vs. Bürgergeld I Neue WSI-Studie zeigt: Arbeit lohnt sich. Durchschnittliches Einkommensplus im Monat für verschiedene Haushalte bei einem Job mit Mindestlohn gegenüber Bürgergeld. Die Grafik zeigt zum einen eine alleinstehende Person, die bei Vollzeit-Arbeit zum Mindestlohn ein monatliches Einkommensplus von 557 Euro hat. Eine alleinerziehende Person mit Kind hat ein Einkommensplus von 749 Euro gegenüber bloßem Bürgergeld-Bezug – und ein Ehepaar mit zwei Kindern, wovon eine Person Vollzeit arbeitet, verzeichnet ein monatliches Einkommensplus von 660 Euro. Quelle: WSI Policy Brief Nr. 90, 08/2025
Eine häufig gehörte Unterstellung ist, dass sich #Arbeit für Bezieher*innen von #Bürgergeld nicht mehr lohne. Eine neue Studie unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social beweist das Gegenteil und liefert Zahlen zu allen 400 deutschen Landkreisen und kreisfreien Städten: www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...
⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods
Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Congratulations! Well deserved.
for all our Italian Friends (or Italy-Lovers): Great Position (post-doc) offered by Cristiano Vezzoni at Milan! Topic: on Loneliness, Social Isolation and Political Behaviour
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Today, the German Federal Election Officer released data on voting by age and gender for the 2025 election. Contrary to popular belief, AfD support is still not strongest among the youngest voters, but rather among the middle-aged (males). Support is also still much lower in older cohorts. (1/3) 🧵
Blauer Hintergrund mit gespaltener Erdkugel, Baum, Windrad, Notebook und Zahnrädern. Text: WSI Herbstforum 2025: Krisen, Kämpfe, Lösungen: Transformationskonflikte im sozial-ökologischen Wandel. Mit Beiträgen von Andrea Nahles (Bundesagentur für Arbeit), Miriam Rehm (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Simon Schaupp (Technische Universität Berlin), Linus Westheuser (Humboldt Universität Berlin) u.v.m. Jetzt anmelden!
Welche Konzepte gibt es, #Transformation gerecht zu gestalten und die sozialen Aspekte der ökologisch notwendigen Transformation ernsthaft in den Mittelpunkt zu stellen? Dieser und vielen weiteren Fragen wollen wir auf dem @wsiinstitut.bsky.social Herbstforum 2025 nachgehen.
Mehr Informationen:
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⏩Herbstforum 12.11. -13.11.2025 in Berlin⏪
Es kommen Andrea Nahles @miriamrehm.bsky.social, @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, @andreashoev.bsky.social, @simschaupp.bsky.social,
@lwestheuser.bsky.social
Was sind sozial-ökologische Transformationskonflikte und wie können sie progressive Kräfte nutzen?⏬
Art.9 Grundgesetz beinhaltet die Idee, dass Menschen über die "Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsbedingungen" selbst verhandeln. Unter welchen Bedingungen das heute (nicht) gelingt und warum, das kommt - obwohl es das Leben Millionen abhängig Beschäftigten direkt betrifft - in dt. Medien fast garnicht vor.
📢 New data released!
The complete third #FReDA wave is now freely available via @GESIS – perfect for longitudinal studies.
👉 Get access: search.gesis.org/res...
#SocialScience #PanelData #LongitudinalData
#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!
Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
Ich bin in Finnland, aber an alle anderen: Geht morgen auf die Demos gegen den Hochschulpakt in Hessen. Es geht um die Existenz der Wissenschaft. Schaut nur die deutlichen Appelle der Uni Präsident:innen aus Kassel, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Offenbach an - das ist ziemlich beispiellos. 🪧🪧🪧🏫
📢 Thrilled to share our new paper with MerlePohlmeyer& KarinSchulzeBuschoff, just published in @socialindicators.bsky.social “Diverging Paths? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subjective Well-Being of the Solo Self-Employed and Employees in Germany (2019–2023)”
🔗 rdcu.be/ers11
🧵 Key insights 👇
We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
