Topic : Sciences sociales
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SEMILUX and LIS^2ER Spring Series – Inequality, mobility and wealth concentration – Prof. Alexandra Killewald – For Richer: Marriage and Wealth
En savoir plusFor Richer: Marriage and WealthMarriage is widely considered to benefit individuals’economic well-being, including their net worth. Yet establishing the role of marriage in wealthgeneration is complicated by the dynamic and reciprocal nature of marriage and wealth: marriage is both the result of prior wealth and a potential determinant of future wealth. In this paper, we…
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SEMILUX and LIS^2ER Spring Series – Inequality, mobility and wealth concentration – Prof. Fabian Pfeffer – The Demography of Rising Wealth Inequality
En savoir plusThe Demography of Rising Wealth InequalityWe determine the independent contribution of several demographic trends to rising U.S. wealth inequality over the last three decades. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances from 1989 through 2019 and novel decomposition techniques, we show that rapid growth in wealth inequality and increasing wealth concentration at the top…
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Brown Bag Seminar : Javier Olivera, LISER: The effects of social pensions on mortality among the extreme poor elderly
En savoir plusFeel free to get in touch if you would like to present a paper in the Brown Bag. Thanks!Kind regards,Louis, Anja and Philippe***bit.ly/IRSEIBrownBag
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SEMILUX : Skerdilajda Zanaj – Diversity on the Screen
En savoir plusUsing hand-collected data on movies from 1998 to 2008, we examine how deep-rooted population diversity in the origin countries of the cast (actors) and the production team (director, writer, and producer) affects movie performance (spectator ratings and box office revenue). We contend that distinguishing between the cast (what is visible by spectators-consumers) and the production…
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Brown Bag Seminar IRSEI – Discussion and resource sharing on Good Scientific Practice
En savoir plushttps://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m3237d2cac2c4105d866699ad01af0983Monday, Nov 2, 2020 1:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, ViennaOccurs every Monday effective 11/2/2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, ViennaMeeting number: 163 163 2560Password: qJQQrB7Mj28ef8831c6ea6d459b88f44c4a8d2b6a46_20201102T120000ZJoin by video systemDial 1631632560@unilu.webex.comYou can also dial 62.109.219.4 and enter your meeting number.Join by phone8002-7323 Luxembourg…
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Brown Bag Seminar IRSEI – Discussion: How will university teaching and evaluations (and research) change with ChatGPT?
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Brown Bag Seminar IRSEI: Jung Hyun Kim: Health effects of minimum wage hike: Evidence from South Korea experiments
En savoir plusJung Hyun Kim: Health effects of minimum wage hike: Evidence from South Korea experiments
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Brown Bag Seminar IRSEI – Jason Settels: Conditional on the Environment? The Contextual Embeddedness of Age, Health, and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Remote Work among Older Europeans through the COVID-19 Pandemic
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La montée aux extrêmes des crises sociales : ce que la sociologie et l’histoire des inégalités insoutenables nous apprennent
En savoir plusSérie de conférences du groupe de travail « Humanités et Religion »
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Science of Science: Why does the U.S. have the leading research universities? Incentives, resources, and virtuous circles
En savoir plusAround 1875, the US had none of the world’s leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the top-ranked. Many observers cite events surrounding World War II as the source of this reversal. We present evidence that US research universities had surpassed most countries’ decades before World War II. An explanation of their dominance…