Dirk Witteveen
@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social
Sociologist @ University of Oxford & Nuffield College | Lecturer in Social Policy @ Department of Social Policy and Intervention | PhD CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.dirkwitteveen.com/
https://www.dirkwitteveen.com/
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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NEW research by Dr @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social reveals the persistence of racial inequality in the 1910-20s Great Migration ⬇️
The findings reveal that the Great Migration maintained racial gaps in career mobility.
Read in full 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The findings reveal that the Great Migration maintained racial gaps in career mobility.
Read in full 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Racial Gaps in Career Mobility during the Great Migration - Dirk Witteveen, 2025
The author investigates whether the Great Migration closed or mitigated racial disparities in career advancement. Using linked historical census data, tracking ...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
NEW research by Dr @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social reveals the persistence of racial inequality in the 1910-20s Great Migration ⬇️
The findings reveal that the Great Migration maintained racial gaps in career mobility.
Read in full 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The findings reveal that the Great Migration maintained racial gaps in career mobility.
Read in full 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
You want to stay in academia? Get a grant, they say
Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You want to stay in academia? Get a grant, they say
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Moving up by moving up?
D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration
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D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Moving up by moving up?
D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
I also study AI.
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I also study AI.
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Democracy Now! is seeking an experienced leader to join our team as Director of Technology.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Democracy Now! is seeking an experienced leader to join our team as Director of Technology.
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📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci
Gender and racial diversity socialization in science - Nature Computational Science
A computational null model is proposed to study the gender and racial diversity-association effects in academia. Researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturi...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci
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Following the 10-vote win that made him mayor of Burlington 43 years ago, @sanders.senate.gov took to national television for the very first time to explain his socialist politics.
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Following the 10-vote win that made him mayor of Burlington 43 years ago, @sanders.senate.gov took to national television for the very first time to explain his socialist politics.
Tell 'm Bernie.
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Tell 'm Bernie.
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⬇️ NEW publication from Dr Dirk Witteveen (Departmental Lecturer) in International Migration Review:
'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?'
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'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?'
Read in full: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
⬇️ NEW publication from Dr Dirk Witteveen (Departmental Lecturer) in International Migration Review:
'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?'
Read in full: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?'
Read in full: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social
See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN
#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
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#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social
See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN
#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
DM or reach out
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#demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4...
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What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?
Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:
Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:
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March 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?
Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:
Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:
New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration? - Dirk Witteveen, Mobarak Hossain, 2025
This article examines the association between modernization and career growth of American men and European immigrants, focusing on heterogeneity along ancestry,...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.
with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Some RC28 @ Milan impressions
March 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some RC28 @ Milan impressions
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Very interesting presentation by @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social at #RC28 on the match between college majors and jobs in the US. What seems to matter most is getting into the occupation that matches degree, not as much the skills or whether you train further.
March 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Very interesting presentation by @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social at #RC28 on the match between college majors and jobs in the US. What seems to matter most is getting into the occupation that matches degree, not as much the skills or whether you train further.
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New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷
Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution
Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷
Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution
Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution
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Are you a social scientist or historian whose work includes analysis of the offshore finance system?
Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social.
Due May 15th.
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Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social.
Due May 15th.
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Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review
Guest editors
Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
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February 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are you a social scientist or historian whose work includes analysis of the offshore finance system?
Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social.
Due May 15th.
academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...
Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social.
Due May 15th.
academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...
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🚀Bluesky, we are hiring! 4 days left to apply.
2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration @WZB in Berlin
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2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration @WZB in Berlin
Please share! DM for further info
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November 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM
🚀Bluesky, we are hiring! 4 days left to apply.
2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration @WZB in Berlin
Please share! DM for further info
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2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration @WZB in Berlin
Please share! DM for further info
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"In short, QCA often finds complexity where none exists."
This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...
This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...
February 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"In short, QCA often finds complexity where none exists."
This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...
This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...
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This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.
February 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.
Spent a fantastic week with colleagues and friends at Stockholm University's @sofi.su.se, despite the slightly disappointing weather ☁️ 👀
January 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Spent a fantastic week with colleagues and friends at Stockholm University's @sofi.su.se, despite the slightly disappointing weather ☁️ 👀
I'm very excited to give a talk about ethnic earnings inequality in football at UCL this coming week.
Hybrid format! 🧑🏻💻👀
Hybrid format! 🧑🏻💻👀
What drives #ethnic earnings #inequality in professional European #football?⚽💸
Join us as @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social examines the #racial-ethnicBias in leagues like @plnews.bsky.social + others using 10,442 player-season records📊
Kick off next Wednesday 1:00pm👇
Book: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Join us as @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social examines the #racial-ethnicBias in leagues like @plnews.bsky.social + others using 10,442 player-season records📊
Kick off next Wednesday 1:00pm👇
Book: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
January 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I'm very excited to give a talk about ethnic earnings inequality in football at UCL this coming week.
Hybrid format! 🧑🏻💻👀
Hybrid format! 🧑🏻💻👀
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New blog: @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social on crime rates and why youth clubs could be valuable investments, based on her @theifs.bsky.social research
Youth clubs could be valuable investments - Understanding Society
What are the effects of youth club closures in the UK? widespread closing of youth clubs during the 2010s driven by government austerity measures led to falling educational performance and increasing ...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
New blog: @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social on crime rates and why youth clubs could be valuable investments, based on her @theifs.bsky.social research
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📣 @bjsociology.bsky.social is seeking reflections by sociologists from across the world on the ongoing managerial and ideological attacks on higher education.
Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx
Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx
December 31, 2024 at 12:00 PM
📣 @bjsociology.bsky.social is seeking reflections by sociologists from across the world on the ongoing managerial and ideological attacks on higher education.
Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx
Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx