I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support!
#dgs2025

Had a great time at #ECSR2025 presenting joint work w/ @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @katjamoe.bsky.social on motherhood penalties in public pension wealth and net wealth. A lot of great research and people! Looking forward to ISI Wealth hosted by @isi-munich.bsky.social next month.

Local election 💌🗳️

Bye bye Belval! 🇱🇺
Had such a great time at @lisdata.bsky.social and @liser.lu. Thank you for hosting @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and me and supporting our research! Time flies when you’re having fun and nice people (as well as nice Luxembourg Income Study data)!

About yesterday: Korean dinner and fête nationale in Luxembourg city with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @kunlee.bsky.social @keonkim.bsky.social 🇱🇺

Excited that @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and I have started our time as (LIS)2ER visitors at @lisdata.bsky.social and @liser.lu - Thanks @kunlee.bsky.social and @esiermin.bsky.social for having us! Looking forward to fruitful exchanges and new insights in the coming weeks 🇱🇺

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Let’s see where this goes next week

***Call for abstracts - Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis***

Joint conference of the German Sociological Association Sections “Social Policy” and “Social Inequality and Social Stratification”, 24-26 March 2025 at the University of Bamberg.

Deadline: 31st December 2024

2/ Using German Socio-Economic Panel data (2002–2017), we compare pension and net wealth gaps between older spouses in Eastern (n=846) and Western Germany (n=2331). We find striking regional differences

**Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis**
We invite you to submit your abstracts for the joint conference of the German Sociological Association Sections “Social Policy” and “Social Inequality and Social Stratification”, 24-26.03.2025 at the University of Bamberg. More info in the call

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I am happy to share that I successfully defended my dissertation on „Couples‘ careers and women‘s financial security in later life“ on Tuesday at the University of Mannheim. I want to thank @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their outstanding supervision. #phdone

This beauty - which I mistook for a rogue amazon order at first - just arrived on my table: European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: by Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (ed.)
Available in Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

#sociology #demography #gendersky #EconSky #polisky