Richard Nennstiel
nennstielr.bsky.social
Richard Nennstiel
@nennstielr.bsky.social
Sociologist
Post-doc at University of Bern
Interested in social mobility, school-to-work transitions, administrative data
richardnennstiel.com
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🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
🎓 Two PhD positions at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern! Join our team (Chair of Social Change and Inequality, Ass. Prof. Dr. Benita Combet) to research career development inequalities by gender, ethnicity & social background. Apply by Nov 21.
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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📠 New paper out!
It explores how gendered career patterns among couples around first birth intersect with changes in individual poverty risk, i.e. under the assumption of no income pooling.
Read it OA here: doi.org/10.1016/j.al...
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Despite popular perception, there is no clear evidence of a broad rightward shift among young men.

New study by @nennstielr.bsky.social & @hudde.bsky.social explores political divides btw young men and women - looking back as far as 1990 and using data from 32 EU countries.

tinyurl.com/389b8mmx
July 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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❌ “No” still isn’t heard equally.

Drs. @nennstielr.bsky.social and @saraalice.bsky.social’s #Socius study using #Eurobarometer shows men across the EU are less likely to reject “no means yes.” Rejection rises with #GenderEquality and stronger #ConsentLaws.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
July 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🚨 New paper out! 🚨
We use Eurobarometer data to explore how strongly people across the EU reject the “no means yes” rape myth.
Gender gaps persist, but shrink with higher gender equality and “only yes means yes” laws.
w/ @saraalice.bsky.social l (@unibe.ch)
👉 doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351676
July 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🚨 We analyze gender gaps in STEM aspirations across educational pathways in Switzerland.
Gender gaps are larger in vocational (VET) routes than in academic pathways — and existing theories explain less of these gaps among students aspiring VET.
👉 doi.org/10.1186/s40461-025-00187-3
July 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚨 New paper published in RSSM @isa-rc28.bsky.social🚨
We explore how gender differences in occupational status have evolved in Switzerland across five decades, as women have attained increasingly higher educational qualifications.
w/ Rolf Becker (@unibe.ch)
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
July 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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🧠🚀 What happens when early-career social scientists use ChatGPT for academic writing? Clearer and more coherent text - but no boost to depth, originality, rigour, or literature use, according to our field experiment.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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HOW IMPORTANT IS SOCIAL BACKGROUND FOR SES? A major issue in social stratification/class mobility research is the effect of one's social origins (or class background) on socioeconomic outcomes. Our new paper tackles this question using two research designs. Preview: It's not that important.
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June 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and
@hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries
Abstract. Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implication
academic.oup.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Another great reason to submit manuscripts to @europeansocreview.bsky.social 🙃
On a side note: this was the best review experience I have ever had, extremely constructive & efficient.

From submission to acceptance in less than 3 months!! 😱🎉

@europeansocreview.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
June 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
June 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🧠🎓 Signal or substance?
What do employers really see in a university degree?
Our new paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social dives into “sheepskin effects” using a factorial survey experiment.
With @jpheisig.bsky.social & @thijsbol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
June 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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📘 Ein neuer Sammelband von Tilman Drope, Sabine Reh und Kai Maaz @dipfaktuell.bsky.social nimmt soziale Bildungsungleichheit aus verschiedenen theoretischen, historischen und empirischen Blickwinkeln in den Fokus.
Alle Infos zu dem im Waxmann-Verlag erschienen Band:
bit.ly/4kAT3lZ
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Thesis successfully defended!
It was more of an ultramarathon than a sprint. After all these years, with a few breaks and detours here and there, I finally reached the final stretch and crossed the finish line. A big thank you to all the wonderful people who supported and cheered me on.
June 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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KDLBRECODE - new Stata module for recoding German occupational classifications available on SSC

kldbrecode provides crosswalk tables for various translations between German KldB and ISCO. Moreover, translations to BIBB occupational fields and Ebner & Rohrbach-Schmidt prestige scale are supported.
GitHub - hagerhardt/kldbrecode: kldbrecode - Stata module to translate German Classifications of Occupations (KldB)
kldbrecode - Stata module to translate German Classifications of Occupations (KldB) - hagerhardt/kldbrecode
github.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Ab in den Druck!🎉

Mein Buch „Wo wir wie wählen: Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften“ ab 18.06. bei Campus

Eine politische Landkarte🇩🇪 basierend auf Wahldaten, Sozialstruktur & Eindrücken vor Ort

Jetzt vorbestellen—in eurer Lieblingsbuchhandlung oder hier www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
April 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...
April 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥
🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:

▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.
ohws.prospective.ch
April 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Happy to be teaching #Geodata and #SpatialRegressionAnalysis 🌍📉 this year again @gesistraining.bsky.social!!

🧑‍💻Join us 09-11 July in Mannheim (link below).

For materials from previous years see: ruettenauer.github.io/Geodata_Spat...
April 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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How does employment change differ across German regions & is it all about the urban-rural divide? 🏙️ 🏡

Happy to see the first paper of my PhD now out in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie and Sozialpsychologie!

Read the paper #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1007/s115... and 🧵👇:
Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas: Mapping Geographic Divides in Germany’s Employment Structure, 1993–2019 - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
This article assesses the popular thesis of growing regional inequality and urban–rural divides for Germany, focusing on the quality of employment opportunities. Drawing on a 2% sample of individuals ...
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Welche Rolle wird Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) im Unterricht, beim Lernen und in der Schulorganisation spielen?
Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen bringt sie mit sich?

Nehmt Euch bitte 10 min Zeit für unsere Befragung
"Die Zukunft der Schule in Zeiten von KI": www.soscisurvey.de/EQUAL-NET/
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 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
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🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:

▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.
ohws.prospective.ch
March 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM