Laila Schmitt
@lailaschmitt.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @iabnews.bsky.social. Sociologist. Research on Social Inequality, Labour Markets, Inequality Perceptions, and Gender 👨👩🪙⚖️
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Our paper "Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States" is finally out in the European Economic Review!
@paulhufe.net
@paulhufe.net
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our paper "Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States" is finally out in the European Economic Review!
@paulhufe.net
@paulhufe.net
I'm thrilled to announce that I joined the IAB Hesse! 🥳💚 Looking forward to advising the Regional Directorates and the Federal Employment Agency, and continuing my labour market research. It is an honour to work with such a community of expert researchers. Please reach out if you'd like to connect!
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that I joined the IAB Hesse! 🥳💚 Looking forward to advising the Regional Directorates and the Federal Employment Agency, and continuing my labour market research. It is an honour to work with such a community of expert researchers. Please reach out if you'd like to connect!
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🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
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🚨New paper in SER🚨
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
March 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨New paper in SER🚨
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
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As @oxfam-de.bsky.social also argues, equalizing gender gaps among billionaires is the second-best solution. Abolishing billionaires the first.
Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
March 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
As @oxfam-de.bsky.social also argues, equalizing gender gaps among billionaires is the second-best solution. Abolishing billionaires the first.
Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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🚨Job alert 🚨
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨Job alert 🚨
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸
The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
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📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades
Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
January 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades
Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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🚨 Applications are still open for the rest of the week 🚨
(full review begins Monday, Jan 20)
(full review begins Monday, Jan 20)
Sociologists working on inequality:
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
January 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨 Applications are still open for the rest of the week 🚨
(full review begins Monday, Jan 20)
(full review begins Monday, Jan 20)
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Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
December 20, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
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Please join us (in person or virtually) for the opening of the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI).
Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time.
Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time.
Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
Measuring inequality
“We will be relevant”: Sociologist Fabian Pfeffer about the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI) at LMU, which officially opens this week.
www.lmu.de
October 7, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Please join us (in person or virtually) for the opening of the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI).
Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time.
Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time.
Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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I am happy that my paper with Sabine Düval is now published. We use survey experiments & causal mediation analyses to explore gender ideologies & norms underlying the division of housework. We argue that traditional ideologies may have been overestimated in previous research...
"By gradually adding information about labor market resources, we were able to override respondents’ stereotypical beliefs."
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Katrin Auspurg, Sabine Düval "Housework as a Woman's Job? What Looks Like Gender Ideologies Could Also Be Stereotypes."
September 4, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I am happy that my paper with Sabine Düval is now published. We use survey experiments & causal mediation analyses to explore gender ideologies & norms underlying the division of housework. We argue that traditional ideologies may have been overestimated in previous research...
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🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
#SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
#SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class
Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion - Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage, Maren Toft, 2024
Wealth inequalities are increasingly prominent in contemporary societies but they have not been systematically addressed by sociological class analysis. However...
doi.org
September 18, 2024 at 7:05 AM
🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
#SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
#SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class
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🚨 Job Announcement: Two Positions in Our Administrative Leadership Team 🚨
Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München.
Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread:
/1
Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München.
Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread:
/1
September 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
🚨 Job Announcement: Two Positions in Our Administrative Leadership Team 🚨
Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München.
Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread:
/1
Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München.
Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread:
/1
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Am Arbeitsbereich Sozialstrukturanalyse und Survey-Methodologie @socfub.bsky.social ist eine Postdoc-Stelle für 3,5 Jahre zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist: 30.9.2024
#Soziologie
Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung!
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
#Soziologie
Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung!
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
PS-SOZSTRUKTUR-WiMi-2024
www.fu-berlin.de
August 22, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Am Arbeitsbereich Sozialstrukturanalyse und Survey-Methodologie @socfub.bsky.social ist eine Postdoc-Stelle für 3,5 Jahre zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist: 30.9.2024
#Soziologie
Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung!
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
#Soziologie
Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung!
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 24, 2024 at 3:35 PM
It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n
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2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
Spring School on perceptions of wealth (inequality)
SCHOOL ON PERCEPTIONS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY
dariatisch.github.io
July 31, 2024 at 9:44 AM
2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
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The life course approach: an interdisciplinary paradigm in family research often too abstract to guide hypotheses on family life variation. New Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @robgruijters.bsky.social & Anette Fasang -> a life course theoretical framework with case studies doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective We propose a life course theoretical framework for understanding variation in family life courses between birth cohorts (historical time), societies (place), and social groups (social loca...
doi.org
June 24, 2024 at 12:13 PM
The life course approach: an interdisciplinary paradigm in family research often too abstract to guide hypotheses on family life variation. New Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @robgruijters.bsky.social & Anette Fasang -> a life course theoretical framework with case studies doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
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Introducing ISI, the new Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research:
www.lmu.de/isi
(for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...)
We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1
www.lmu.de/isi
(for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...)
We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1
Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research
ISI is a research center for the study of social inequality. It connects researchers across the world and supports the next generation of inequality scholars.
www.lmu.de
June 21, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Introducing ISI, the new Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research:
www.lmu.de/isi
(for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...)
We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1
www.lmu.de/isi
(for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...)
We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1
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Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5
February 29, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5
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OnlineFirst in #JESP: András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth and I show that using a floating poverty threshold dramatically underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272
Thread 👇👇👇
Thread 👇👇👇
February 29, 2024 at 10:59 AM
OnlineFirst in #JESP: András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth and I show that using a floating poverty threshold dramatically underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272
Thread 👇👇👇
Thread 👇👇👇
Have you also been looking for literature on the new DiD vs. TWFE estimators in Sociology? Below is a paper that provides an intuitive explanation along with simulations! 👇
New paper on #TreatmentHeterogeneity in fixed-effects with @aksoyundan.bsky.social!
Discover when conventional Two-Way Fixed-Effects hold strong & where we need Dynamic DiD estimators? 📈
osf.io/preprints/so...
Spoiler: TWFE is better than you think🤯 #SocialSciences #SocTwitter #Sociology #DiD
Discover when conventional Two-Way Fixed-Effects hold strong & where we need Dynamic DiD estimators? 📈
osf.io/preprints/so...
Spoiler: TWFE is better than you think🤯 #SocialSciences #SocTwitter #Sociology #DiD
February 2, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Have you also been looking for literature on the new DiD vs. TWFE estimators in Sociology? Below is a paper that provides an intuitive explanation along with simulations! 👇
Super excited to be part of this group! And really looking forward to Montreal!
Congrats to the new cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social Early Career Fellows! See you in Montreal! @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social @eunjeongpaek.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @tomlyttelton.bsky.social @decastrogalvao.bsky.social
WFRN@bsky.social Welcomes 2024 Early Career Fellowship Recipients: wfrn.org/news/announc... Congratulations to all!
January 31, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Super excited to be part of this group! And really looking forward to Montreal!
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💥We are recruiting! Two exciting positions (post-doc or post-grad) available in my recently started ERC-Consolidator Grant "EDUPOL - Education policies that work: A context-sensitive ‘big data’ approach" Deadline: 9/02/24 More info below 👇
January 24, 2024 at 8:05 AM
💥We are recruiting! Two exciting positions (post-doc or post-grad) available in my recently started ERC-Consolidator Grant "EDUPOL - Education policies that work: A context-sensitive ‘big data’ approach" Deadline: 9/02/24 More info below 👇
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🚨JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ
Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.
We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ
Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (f/m/x) / ID 242
The research units Skill Formation and Labor Markets (Director: Professor Heike Solga) and Health and Inequality (Head: Professor Jan Paul Heisig) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) are...
bit.ly
January 11, 2024 at 10:16 AM
🚨JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ
Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.
We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ
Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.