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We have long known that economic mobility varies across localities within the US. This innovative data-rich article presents remarkable evidence as to *why*. Spoiler: Fiscal structures matter. @rourkeobrien.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇
"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility"
New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003...
#sociology #demography #econsky
January 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
We have long known that economic mobility varies across localities within the US. This innovative data-rich article presents remarkable evidence as to *why*. Spoiler: Fiscal structures matter. @rourkeobrien.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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Do family background shape exposure to life cycle earnings volatility? With the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social, I have paper forthcoming in Social Forces that addresses this question with brother correlations in volatility exposure in Denmark, Germany, and the U.S.
#sociology
#sociology
January 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Do family background shape exposure to life cycle earnings volatility? With the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social, I have paper forthcoming in Social Forces that addresses this question with brother correlations in volatility exposure in Denmark, Germany, and the U.S.
#sociology
#sociology
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This is a groundbreaking work from @bryanboyle.bsky.social and Dieter Vanderbroeck. Based on painstaking ethnographic research, they elucidate how the labour of butlers is appropriated by elites in service of marking out their own cultural distinction
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles - Bryan Boyle, Dieter Vandebroeck, 2025
Elites appropriate labor that produces and reproduces distinct lifestyles. This article shows how the practice of this type of labor—what we term the “labor of ...
journals.sagepub.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is a groundbreaking work from @bryanboyle.bsky.social and Dieter Vanderbroeck. Based on painstaking ethnographic research, they elucidate how the labour of butlers is appropriated by elites in service of marking out their own cultural distinction
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T
Featured in the latest Digest: "Gender, Career Opportunities, and the Relocation Decisions of Couples"
https://www.nber.org/digest/202412/gender-career-opportunities-and-relocation-decisions-couples
https://www.nber.org/digest/202412/gender-career-opportunities-and-relocation-decisions-couples
December 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T