New blog from @cep-lse.bsky.social@sandramcnally.bsky.socialblogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Pupil absence in secondary schools is likely to remain above pre-pandemic levels, at least until those who began secondary school during the pandemic have left school. Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNal…
The numbers are in: 46% of Democrats' nominees this cycle are women, compared to 16% of Republicans' nominees. Read our analysis of this (and more), here: abcnews.go.com/538/efforts-...
GOP efforts to recruit and support female candidates in primaries stalled this year, while Democratic women could expand their ranks after a strong showing.
Link to SocArXiv paper featuring many maps and pretty graphics below And very many thanks to @ritaschmutz.bsky.social@datawrapper.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/so...
Even after ~30 years of upgrading, many NUTS-2 regions have yet to achieve same proportion of high quality jobs that capital city regions had in 1992 So there are big generational gaps, which of course have implications for individual life chances
But there was *a lot* of variation in the rate and type of occupational upgrading that took place Strong upgrading & employment growth in economic capitals v weaker upgrading & slow or even negative employment growth in regions like Lorraine, Sicily, Extremadura and West Midlands...
There's good and less good news The good: we find universal upgrading. Between 1992-2018, employment in high quality jobs grew while employment in low quality jobs shrank in all 69 NUTS-2 regions studied
Never seen a good explanation of why health insurance costs so much more in the Suisse Romande. Anyone have one? Map shows average *monthly* cost of (mandatory) Swiss health insurance, in case anyone is thinking "that doesn't look so bad" www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...
