Jonas Dietrich
jonasdietrich.bsky.social
Jonas Dietrich
@jonasdietrich.bsky.social
@pse.bsky.social and @wid.world
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There's less than 1️⃣ month to go until the deadline for submissions to our #CallForPapers for the 2026 World Inequality Conference.

🏃‍♀️Hurry up and submit your paper by 1 December!

inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
World Inequality Conference 2026 - World Inequality Lab
The World Inequality Lab is organizing the third edition of the World Inequality Conference, to be held at the Paris School of Economics on June 4-5, 2026.
inequalitylab.world
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Out in the European Economic Review after many years of datawork with @sbachtax.bsky.social and Theresa Neef: The distribution of national income in Germany, 1992-2019. We document 1) high income concentration at the top in Germany - similar to the US
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓

🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.

Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 - WID - World Inequality Database
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hou...
wid.world
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The call for papers of this year's World Inequality Conference is out! I will help organising this conference and looking forward to see you in June in Paris.
📆 Save the date: the 3rd edition of the World Inequality Conference will take place on 4–5 June 2026 at Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social

The call for papers is open until December 1.

🔗 More details & submission: inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Net private wealth has skyrocketed since 1980 - this is one of the main findings of a new @wid.world study overturning the Kaldor’s facts.
More findings in thread 🧵
🔗Study wid.world/news-article...
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Researchers from around the world gathered in Paris to share the latest findings on inequality and labour income in Southeast Asia.

🔍Regional overviews + country insights on 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇵🇭 🇻🇳 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 - with inputs from WIL fellows @nitin-k-bharti.bsky.social @markjmn.bsky.social & @jonasdietrich.bsky.social.
June 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The Paris School of Economics Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics is offering fully-funded PhD fellowships for student working on inequality. Deadline May 4. Details and applications here

👇👇👇

stone-center-pse.eu/grants/phd-f...
PhD Fellowship | Stone Center PSE
stone-center-pse.eu
April 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025

CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.

Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)
www.lmu.de
March 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This looks amazing!
My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...
January 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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If you are interested in working with historical German data, this special issue of the German Economic Review gives an overview of existing research and available dataset, including our article on patent data (co-author: Jochen Streb):

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
December 1, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc.
🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture.
(2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
November 22, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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⏰ Please share widely!

We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
Predoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 303)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...
wzb.hr4you.org
November 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM