My first paper is out in Socio-Economic Review! doi.org/10.1093/ser/... Using firm-level data on all stock listed firms in the world I show that it is not the growth of shareholder remunerations that causes rising payout ratios, but precisely their inability to fall, their downward rigidity.
Abstract. The rise of payout ratios has been ascribed by financialization scholars to shareholder value orientation (SVO), a governance practice associated
Only two percent of corporate and municipal green bond proceeds initiate projects with clearly novel green features, from Pauline Lam and Jeffrey Wurgler https://www.nber.org/papers/w32960
Ik heb even gekeken, maar ik denk het niet nee, idem voor Twitter en Mastodon, wel nog op LinkedIn actief.
🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social#MikeSavage#Sociologydoi.org/10.1177/0038...#SociologyJournal#Wealth#Class
Wealth inequalities are increasingly prominent in contemporary societies but they have not been systematically addressed by sociological class analysis. However...
De arbeidersklasse is niet dood, ze is levend begraven. Arbeidssocioloog Fabian Dekker pleit in zijn nieuwe boek "Fabriekswerk" voor een herwaardering van sociale klasse in het maatschappelijk debat. Mijn boekbespreking deze maand in Samenleving & Politiek: sampol.be/2024/09/fabr...
De arbeidersklasse is niet dood, ze is levend begraven. Fabian Dekker pleit in zijn boek voor een herwaardering van sociale klasse in het maatschappelijk debat.
Excited to share a new R-package (written w/ @aaoritz.bsky.socialtinyurl.com/4yhbnpxn nuts allows to harmonize and aggregate European regional data across all NUTS versions (2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2021) & levels (NUTS-3 to NUTS-1). 1/4
The 2025 call for the Jos Berghman welfare studies stipend is now open! 🎉 Spend three exciting months in our research group at KU Leuven to work on topics broadly related to social policy and social work. Deadline for applications: Oct 4, 2024. More info 👇 soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/respond...
If you are interested in learning more about minimum wages, Attila Lindner and I have a new, up-to-date review of the topic, coming out in the Handbook of Labor Economics. Here's the @nberpubs working paper. Link: nber.org/papers/w32878
New article in Sociologie du travail looks at the professionalization of occupational medicine in France via university hospitals: journals.openedition.org/sdt/46679
La médecine du travail est classiquement considérée comme occupant l’un des échelons les plus bas de la hiérarchie symbolique des professions médicales. Les choix des étudiants à l’issue des épreuv...
Why don´t we see more political competition in economic policy? Re wages, we (w/ Lucio Baccaro) show that the more dependent countries are on exports, the more the wage preferences of center-left and center-right voters converge 1/2 @mpifg.bsky.social@jeppjournal.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1080/1350...
This article examines the relationship between national growth models and voters’ economic preferences. We theorise that centre-left voters are cross-pressured between a demand for higher wages and...