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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University is a leading institute in research on social policy, welfare, inequality, and the labor market.

Learn more at https://sofi.su.se
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katymorris.bsky.social
Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US
Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye
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August 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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paulaaureo.bsky.social
This is a (very) short thread on a recent paper with the great Orazio Attanasio and Alessandro Toppeta on “Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-Emotional Skills” (forthcoming at ‪@jpube.bsky.social)! (1/7)

@ucleconomics.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social‬ @sofi.su.se ‪@clscohorts.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren has been appointed as Associate Professor (Docent) at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI).🎉

Congratulations!
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July 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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thaning.bsky.social
Final conference of rEUsilience and this is (parts of) the wonderful crew - here w/ miami vice flair. Thx for a great journey!
@rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @abrarbawati.bsky.social @amatysiak.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social and analog 📷 by great @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Congratulations, Marie-Pascale!
eeanews.bsky.social EEA @eeanews.bsky.social · Jun 25
EEA congrats Marie-Pascale Grimon for being awarded the Outstanding Paper Award, funded by our MinE Committee, at 5th Virtual Discrimination & Diversity Workshop. More info on her paper, the other winning paper & the workshop here:
www.eeassoc.org/news/outstan...
June 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Congratulations to our doctoral student @allisongeerts.bsky.social in successfully defending her thesis! Geerts' research explores how lesbian couples in the Netherlands navigate the transition to parenthood.

Read her thesis here: su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

#Research #Sociology #PhD
Allison holding her dissertation, smiling.
June 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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🎉 Big congrats to Tünde Lénárd, who successfully defended her dissertation last Friday!

Here’s an action shot from the event.

#DissertationDefense #AcademicWin
Tünde speaking at her dissertation defense, seated behind a table, holding a microphone, with a bouquet of flowers visible in the corner.
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Right now, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch is defending her dissertation in Lecture Hall 9 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

Wishing her all the best!

#DissertationDefense #PhD #SOFI #Sociology
Photo of Madeleine in lecture hall 9, holding her dissertation.
May 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
Fattige familjer berättar: Så lever vi

Interview in @syre-tidningen.bsky.social about the situation of low resource families in Sweden, based on @reusilience.bsky.social research with Lovisa Backman, and on research by @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social

tidningensyre.se/2025/26-maj-...

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Fattiga familjer berättar: Så lever vi - Syre
Att ha ett arbete hjälper inte alltid mot fattigdom. Nästan var tolfte familj med somalisk bakgrund lever i fattigdom trots att båda föräldrarna jobbar, visar ny forskning.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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On this International Day of Families, it’s time to rethink family policy in Europe. Read more about the @reusilience.bsky.social research project and its findings 👇

#sociology #research #FamilyPolicy
European Initiative Calls for Enhanced Family Support Systems - Swedish Institute for Social Research
Today, May 15th, marking the International Day of Families, the European research project rEUsilience presents new insights and recommendations aimed at enhancing family resilience in Europe. The proj...
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May 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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@cassandraengeman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

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Cassandra Engeman appointed Associate Professor - Swedish Institute for Social Research
Cassandra Engeman, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at Stockholm University
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May 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Alessandro Toppeta (@sofi.su.se) shows that more school isn't always better: in Sweden, teens randomly tested after holidays show stronger non-cognitive skills, especially those from wealthier families. More breaks may boost development, but they risk widening inequality.
May 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Nytt nummer av nyhetsbrevet: Läs om hållbart mode om hur vi kan klä oss snyggt utan att förstöra planeten, om maskrosen - kungen av betongdjungeln, forskning om det lönar sig att plugga, om vad som hände i Sverige när freden kom 8 maj 1945 #BertBolinLecture mm
Läs o prenumerera: www.su.se/nyhetsbrev
May 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉

Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century.

Great work, Xiaojie!
#PhD #education #sociology
Xu in front of a blackboard in a lecture hall, holding a printed copy of her dissertation. She wears a headset microphone and stands next to a bouquet of fresh flowers, a stack of dissertations, and some notebooks.
May 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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iies.su.se
From voter to candidate: how a second election sparks political ambition. New research by IIES' graduate student Mattias Folkestad & IIES/ @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social alumna @chloen.bsky.social @sofi.su.se accepted for publication at European Journal of Political Economy www.su.se/institute-fo...
From voter to candidate: how a second election sparks political ambition - Institute for International Economic Studies
From voter to candidate: how a second election sparks political ambition - Institute for International Economic Studies
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April 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Terrific dissertation defense by Xiaojie Xu at @sofi.su.se today and proud supervisor moment for me.

Thanks @hermwerf.bsky.social for doing us the honors!
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Read more about SOFI's brand new doctor's research here:
www.su.se/swedish-inst...
April 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Amanda Almstedt Valldor is right this minute defending her dissertation in Lecture Hall 3 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

Wishing her the best of luck!

#DissertationDefense #PhD #SOFI #Sociology
Photo of Amanda outside the lecture hall.
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET

New article with Lynn van Vugt, Bart Golsteyn, @levels.bsky.social and myself, in @cwfjournal.bsky.social.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The effect of public childcare on the risk that mothers become NEET
Young women are much more likely to be NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) than young men. Little is known about the extent to which institutional and policy contexts can shape the rela...
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April 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social
Working with a Swedish forest view today! So happy to be at @sofi.su.se and excited to be presenting our new @reusilience.bsky.social work on the childcare gap tomorrow at the Social Welfare & Stratification Seminar. Send good wishes!
April 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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New PhD thesis from SOFI's @edvinsyk.bsky.social:
Jobs in Sweden have improved since the 1960s, especially for women, but stress levels are on the rise.
#sociology #worklife #research #PhD #Sweden #SOFI
Jobs Have Gotten Better – But Stress Is on the Rise - Swedish Institute for Social Research
Job quality in Sweden has improved significantly over the past 50 years, but at the same time, workplace stress has sharply increased. This is shown in the doctoral thesis by sociologist Edvin Syk, pr...
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April 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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He made it! Congratulations to SOFI’s newest doctor of sociology, @edvinsyk.bsky.social!
A happy Edvin Syk at the reception at SOFI.
April 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Right now: @edvinsyk.bsky.social defends his dissertation in Lecture Hall 5. Best of luck!

#PhD #Dissertation #SOFI #Research #Sociology
Edvin Syk Printed copy is the dissertation "Quantifying (ine)quality: Job quality over half a century in Sweden and Europe"
April 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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New op-ed in @dagensnyheter.bsky.social by Kenneth Nelson (SOFI) and Sebastian Sirén (Uppsala University): Sweden’s income protection system has weakened significantly over time – without much public debate.

Read the full piece (in Swedish) below.

#WelfareState #SocialPolicy #Research
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April 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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iies.su.se
TODAY Tues 1 April at 1 pm (CEST), we are very happy to welcome Louis-Pierre LePage from @sofi.su.se who will present "Job Sorting and the Labor Market Effects of a Criminal Record".
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM