Thomas Kurer

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Thomas Kurer

Thomas Kurer

@thmskrr

political science @IPZ_ch @URPP_Equality | fellow @EXCInequality | occupational change, social hierarchies, political behavior

Katılım Nisan 2017
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Sebastian Findeisen
Sebastian Findeisen@SebastianFind·
🚨 New Working Paper 🆕 Discussions about new disruptive technologies often have a tone of inevitability. For example, it is popular to attempt to estimate the number of jobs which will be automated in the future, because technology is expected to advance at a certain rate. 1/
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Denise Traber
Denise Traber@denisetraber·
It’s official: I have been promoted to associate professor. I am relieved and beyond happy and very grateful. So many dear friends and colleagues have supported, challenged, mentored and inspired me over all the years of this not exactly short journey. Thank you all!!
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Diane Bolet
Diane Bolet@dianebolet·
In light of the UK extreme-right (ER) riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted @BJPolS paper w/@FlorianFoos shows a causal effect of media exposure to extreme right actors, incl. Robinson, on support for extreme right views: osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/11
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Jon Mellon
Jon Mellon@jon_mellon·
Heading to ASA to present a paper on what determines social status in Britain using a new conjoint experiment that had people 30,720 status judgements (screenshot below)
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Jon Mellon@jon_mellon·
Big picture story here is that status is mostly distributed by economic factors with cultural effects and direct impacts of demographics relatively modest
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@meshuganater It’s part of economic origins (as well as private schooling) on this plot, so a relatively modest effect compared to current work factors (where income dominates occupation effects)

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Isabel M. Perera
Isabel M. Perera@isabelmperera·
Happy to see our review essay on the political economy of AI published today! Musckaan Chauhan & I argue for greater attention to macro factors, as well as for how AI's distributional impact may differ from other forms of automation link.springer.com/article/10.105…
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