Sergi Vidal

Sergi Vidal

@svidal.bsky.social

Social demographer | Families, spatial mobility, inequality, life course | ERC grant @lifelongmove.bsky.social | CED & Sociology dept at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona https://vidalsergi.wordpress.com/ https://webs.uab.cat/lifelongmove

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Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

• New research project HOMEINEQ: Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and Europe On 1 September 2026, the new research project HOMEINEQ – Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and Europe started at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) at the…

vidalsergi.wordpress.com• New research project HOMEINEQ: Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and EuropeOn 1 September 2026, the new research project HOMEINEQ – Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and Europe started at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), the project is jointly led by Sergi Vidal and Riccardo Valente. Housing and residential mobility are increasingly central to the production of social inequality.
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

• Call for Papers – session on mobility trajectories at the ISA World Congress 2027 Together with Riccardo Valente, I am organizing the session “Mobility Trajectories Across the Life Course: New Directions in the Sociology of Population” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2027 in Gwangju,…

vidalsergi.wordpress.com• Call for Papers – session on mobility trajectories at the ISA World Congress 2027Together with Riccardo Valente, I am organizing the session “Mobility Trajectories Across the Life Course: New Directions in the Sociology of Population” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2027 in Gwangju, South Korea, within RC41 Sociology of Population. We welcome contributions examining mobility as a dynamic and cumulative life-course process, including childhood and lifetime mobility, linked lives and family ties, socio-economic and health consequences, and methodological innovations for studying complex mobility histories.

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Danilo Bolano
@danilobolano.bsky.social

Our paper is out today in Demographic Research where we investigate which aspects of partnership trajectories better explains completed fertility. Happy to be part of this work led by @svidal.bsky.social with Mariona Lozano. It’s always fun to work with friends!

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social

Partnership trajectories played a key role in shaping completed fertility of cohorts born 1962–77 in Spain. Delayed/foregone unions strongly reduced the likelihood of motherhood, while stable marriages supported progression to higher parity. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Always happy to publish together with friends :-)

Danilo Bolano@danilobolano.bsky.social

Our paper is out today in Demographic Research where we investigate which aspects of partnership trajectories better explains completed fertility. Happy to be part of this work led by @svidal.bsky.social with Mariona Lozano. It’s always fun to work with friends!

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Publication alert🚨

Claudia Brunori@claudiabrunori.bsky.social

📢New article in International Migration Review! w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration. Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

doi.orgWhere to (Next)? Family and Childhood Migration Experience and Migration Aspirations in Adulthood - Claudia Brunori, Louise Caron, Sergi Vidal, 2026Migration is increasingly recognized as a dynamic, often recurrent, and intergenerational process. Yet, little research has examined how childhood exposure to i...
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social

Moving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR. Check it out, it’s open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Carla Rowold
@crowold.bsky.social

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

doi.orgFull-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gapsAbstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025. Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.

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LIFELONGMOVE Project
@lifelongmove.bsky.social

Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”! Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe. Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025) Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…

vidalsergi.wordpress.com• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming workshop Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course, organized by the LIFELONGMOVE team. Research increasingly shows that to fully understand patterns of spatial mobility, we need a life course perspective—one that draws on longitudinal data and methods.
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.

Claudia Brunori@claudiabrunori.bsky.social

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social

Fresh from #PAA2025! Our PI Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social & co-authors presented new findings on the impact of lifelong neighborhood disadvantage and residential trajectories on socioeconomic outcomes. 📍📈 Stay tuned for more

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

vidalsergi.wordpress.com• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona). The proposed special issue aims to leverage a trajectory-based approach that fully accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of migration across time and space, providing deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications.
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Great opportunity to work on a very interesting research project with a great team 👇👇👇

Philipp Lersch@pmlersch.bsky.social

We are hiring a postdoc for the deciphe.eu project at @diw.de. Work with @svidal.bsky.social, @sbeduk.bsky.social, S. Zinn, M. Medgyesi, myself, and other fantastic team members to understand the intergenerational persistence in homeownership in Europe! More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

deciphe.euDECIPHE Research Project
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

👇👇👇Thrilled to see this collaboration with @pertzikovitz and @ValkHelga published! 📢 We examine how childhood moves underlie partnership stability in adulthood, to contribute to our understanding of the long-term impacts of residential mobility! @lifelongmove

Alon Pertzikovitz@pertzikovitz.bsky.social

📄🍾 happy to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis, a great collaboration with Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social and Helga de Valk is now out in the ENJP 🏘️📦 We ask whether moving in childhood has lasting effects on individuals’ life courses. Short answer: yes Longer answer: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

doi.orgResidential Mobility in Childhood and Union Dissolution Later in Life - European Journal of PopulationThe limited existing literature studying the effects of childhood residential mobility suggests that it influences a range of life outcomes, at least in young adulthood. Little is known about how the ...
Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

🚨New research project DECIPHE investigates the impact of demographic changes on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership. See: shorturl.at/sAV26 ⚓DIW (Berlin), DSPI (Oxford), TÁRKI (Budapest), CED (Barcelona).   💰Funded by @VolkswagenSt (2024/28)   📢Job openings and website coming soon!!

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Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

(3)    To estimate the intergenerational persistence in homeownership across European countries, regions, and birth cohorts. (4)    To discover drivers of the variation in the intergenerational persistence across countries, regions, and birth cohorts with a focus on demographic conditions.

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

🚨New research project DECIPHE investigates the impact of demographic changes on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership. See: shorturl.at/sAV26 ⚓DIW (Berlin), DSPI (Oxford), TÁRKI (Budapest), CED (Barcelona).   💰Funded by @VolkswagenSt (2024/28)   📢Job openings and website coming soon!!

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Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

DECIPHE deploys a comparative research design to address how the chances of being in homeownership if parents were homeowners is affected by demographic change, also in interplay with other contextual factors, such as housing market dynamics The key research objectives are:

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

(1)    To assemble an open-access database of relevant macro-level variables at the country-, region-, and birth cohort-level focusing on demographic conditions (2)    To collect new data on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Germany, Hungary, Spain, and the UK.

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

🚨New research project DECIPHE investigates the impact of demographic changes on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership. See: shorturl.at/sAV26 ⚓DIW (Berlin), DSPI (Oxford), TÁRKI (Budapest), CED (Barcelona).   💰Funded by @VolkswagenSt (2024/28)   📢Job openings and website coming soon!!

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Are you an early-career researcher focusing on spatial mobility, migration, and the life course? If so, you might find this pre-event of EPC 2024 (June 12, Edinburgh) intriguing. Stay tuned for the upcoming call for papers!

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social

📣Save the date! The projects LIFELONGMOVE, FAMILYTIES and MYMOVE are sponsoring an Early-Career Researchers Workshop on Migration Over the Life Course as a pre-event of EPC 2024 ☀️ 🗓️12 June 2024 🗺️Edinburgh CfP coming in January! More info: rb.gy/sl1k45

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Great conference #LIVES at Unil (Lausanne)

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social

How does age at migration affect occupational outcomes in adulthood? Yesterday @svidal.bsky.social presented his working paper on South-to-North migration in Italy (w/ Andrea Succi & Nazareno Panichella) at the LIVES conference in Lausanne.

Sergi Vidal
@svidal.bsky.social

Finally the ERC-funded Lifelongmove project has joined bluesky. Follow us for updates on our research and activities :-)

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social

The LIFELONGMOVE Project joined Bluesky ☀️ We aim at studying how life-long experiences of spatial mobility contribute to the diversity of mobile life paths and to variation in socio-economic, family, and health outcomes. Follow us for updates on our research and activities!

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Lara Bister
@larabister.bsky.social

First post on here! 🫐 📢 Call for papers! 2024 Annual Meeting of the German Demographic Association & the Demographic Societies of the Nordic Countries. Submit to my & Jonathan Wörn's session on "The impact on sickness & health on family members" 👪⚕️📈, deadline is 27 Nov 23 tinyurl.com/t2cymy9e

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