Interested in the social and political consequences of spatial inequality | Sociologist @sspatleeds.bsky.social | https://katymorris.owlstown.net/
Katy Morris
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Bidding a fond farewell to @sofi.su.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Will miss the 11.30 lunches and the wonderfully vibrant and supportive research environment very much, but SOFI is like Hotel California: you can check out, but you never really leave
Vi ses 💙💛
Nothing quite like babysitting bilingual 🇸🇪 children to shatter any illusions of competence you might have
“You need to translate into English for Katy”, says 6-year old admonishing 4-year old
Crushing; also very sweet
From tiny threads, a whole univers(e)ity @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million.
What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.
Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents
New Data visualisation, published with @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social in @sociusjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Katy Morris
Katy Morris
Shifting returns to education, not educational inequality, is the main force driving intergenerational income persistence today.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Proud supervisor moment to see this out in @sfjournal.bsky.social
Katy Morris
Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters?
Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations.
Out now in Social Forces.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social
We find that unions deter Walmart but where Walmart opens, it harms union members journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New preprint out with @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @eileenpeters.bsky.social ✨️
From #neighborhood exposure to #genderbeliefs? We find that local female employment patterns are linked to beliefs about when mothers should return to full-time work.
Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...
