COIN Annual Workshop 2026

25-26 June 2026

The annual conference of the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN) will be held in Paris on 25 & 26 June 2026, bringing together researchers, and international partners engaged in the study of organizational inequality in comparative perspectives. This edition, co-organized by Olivier Godechot (CNRS, Sciences Po AxPo & CRIS) and Mirna Safi (Sciences Po - CRIS) will include the first developments of the ERC project DISEQUAL, dedicated to the study of the relationship between discrimination and social inequality. 

The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary exchanges and will provide a unique forum to discuss recent advances of COIN team members’ research. The team will also discuss future collaborations that will contribute to DISEQUAL combining and harmonizing  discrimination and workplace inequality data across different countries.

The conference will strengthen synergies across scientific communities and encourage dialogue between disciplines, institutions, and generations of scholars. It will also serve as a key milestone for developing new European and international collaborations.

Program

THURSDAY 25 JUNE 2026 

9:30 - Welcome Coffee
9:45 - Opening remarks by the co-organizers 

10:00 am - 11:30 am   GENERAL INEQUALITY

• Coming to Grips with Class Inequality in Contemporary Denmark: Contrasting National Accounts with Linked Employer–Employee Income data. Jorge Quesada Velazco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Lasse Henriksen (Copenhagen Business School). 
• Is Our Understanding of Income Inequality Accurate? Studying Income Inequality Using Common and a New Analytical Approach. Tali Kristal (University of Haïfa). 
• Corporate Power and Labor Costs: Accounting for Uneven Trajectories in Post-Crisis Europe. Matthew Soener (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign).

11:45 am -12:45 pm  LABOR MARKET TRANSITIONS

• Replacement Hiring & Socio-Demographic Substituting. Florian Andersen (Sciences Po CRIS & CSO). 
• The Consequences of Labour Demand Shocks across Countries. Marco Guido Palladino (Dept. of Structural Policy studies, Banque de France & Sciences Po). 

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm  FAMILIES

• How parental leave practices reshape workplace norms - Exploring adaptation processes through feedback-augmented Markov models. Satu Helske (INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku).  
• Equal Leave, Equal Career Outcomes? Causal Evidence from a Symmetric Parental Leave Reform. Marta Elvira and Isabel Villamore (IESE Business School, University of Navarra). 
• Same-sex partnership and job-level wage differentials in advanced economies. Zoltan Lippenyi (University of Groningen).

4:00 pm -5:30 pm  GENDER

• Effects of Digitalization on Men’s and Women’s Wages: Assessing Exploitation on an Organizational Level. Malte Reichelt (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - FAU).  
• Pay transparency in Central and Eastern Europe. Aleksandra Kanujo Mrčela (University of Ljubljana), Alena Křížková, Kristýna Pospíšilová (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Virág Ilyés, Beáta Nagy (Corvinus University of Budapest), Andreja Poje, Jasna Mikič Ljubi (University of Ljubljana).
• Egalitarian Workplaces: The Organizational Ecology of Gender Wage Inequality in 13 High-Income Countries. Eunmi Mun (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign).  

FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2026

10:00 am - 11:00 am   MIGRATION

• Integration of Migrants: Cross-Country Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data. Cesar Barreto (OECD)
• Theorising the Immigrant–native pay gap reversal: When does it occur and what does it mean? Miloslav Bahna (Slovak Academy of Sciences).

11:15 am - 12:45 pm    COMBINING DIMENSIONS

• Contact or Competition? The impact of exposure to others on majority people. Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
• The role of between-firm segregation in gender and ethnoracial inequalities in fringe benefits.  Matt Mendoza (Columbia University - ISERP),
• Getting in but not getting on? Gender and migration related inequalities in managerial attainment and progression.  Nicholas Martindale (University of Bristol).

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm   LABOR MARKET TRANSITIONS II

• Network Hiring and Intergenerational Persistence. Joshua Choper (University College London) and Per Engzell (University College London).
• The wage effects of franchising. Ulysse Lojkine (Sciences Po - CRIS).

3:20 pm - 4:50 pm   DISCRIMINATION

• Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrant Earnings. Are Skeie  Hermansen (University of Oslo).
• Combining experimental and LEED data to study discrimination.  Mirna  Safi (Sciences Po - CRIS).

4:50 pm - 5:30 pm   COIN NEXT STEPS

For more information about the project members, scientific activities and publications, please visit the COIN project website: https://coin-network.org. 

Inter-Firm Hierarchy and Worker Outcomes: Perspectives from Economics and Sociology

Workshop organized by Ulysse Lojkine 

29 June 2026 at Sciences Po Paris*

*To register for the workshop (required), please fill out the form at this link.

Session 1 : 9:00-11:00. Outsourcing I
- Eren Gürer (Middle East Technical University), "Who gains and who loses from outsourcing and its ban? Evidence from Turkey", with U. Aytun and E. Taymaz (discussant : Julie Valentin)
- Agustina Colonna (University of Zurich), "Profit-Sharing, Wages, and Worker Compensation: Evidence from Mexico", with L. Aldeco (discussant : Eren Gürer)
- Julie Valentin (Université Paris I), "Why Do Companies Outsource Cleaning Services?" (discussant : Agustina Colonna)

Break : 11:00-11:20

Session 2 : 11:20-13:00. Outsourcing II
- Gabrielle Schütz (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin), "Analysing outsourcing through a gender lens. The case of facility management and reception services" (discussant : Ulysse Lojkine)
- Olivier Godechot (CNRS, Sciences Po) and Ulysse Lojkine (Sciences Po), "Cutting Hours Through Outsourcing" (discussant : Gabrielle Schütz)

Lunch break : 13:00-14:30

Session 3 : 14:30-16:30. Other hierarchies
- Brian Callaci (Open Markets Institute), "Rent Extraction in Production Networks and Policy Responses" (discussant : Clément Malgouyres)
- Nathan Wilmers (MIT), "Leaders and Followers in Wage Bargaining" (discussant : Brian Callaci)
- Clément Malgouyres (CNRS, CREST), "The wage of temporary agency workers", with A. Bergeaud, P. Cahuc, S. Signorelli, Th. Zuber (discussant : Nathan Wilmers)

Past Joint Sciences Po–MPIfG conferences and seminars

MaxPo Closing Conference

October 21, 2022

Coping with Instability in Market Societies: Tenth Anniversary and Closing Conference of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center

Location: Salle Goguel, 56 rue des Saints-Pères 75006 Paris

Conference program (Google Drive)

Online Summer Conference on Economy and Society

June 28-30, 2021

Fifteenth Summer Conference on Economy and Society: Politics and Society in a Material World

Joint PhD Seminar of Sciences Po, MPIfG, and the Université Franco-Allemande (UFA)

May 21-23, 2019

States, Sectors, Firms, Growth: New Developments in the Political Economy and Economic Sociology of Capitalism

Location: Sciences Po, Paris

September 24-26, 2018

Joint PhD Seminar of Sciences Po and MPIfG

The Role of the Future in Economic and Political Sociology: Between Stabilizing Expectations and Extending Crises

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

May 16-18, 2018

Joint PhD Seminar of Sciences Po and MPIfG

Historical Perspectives on Neoliberalism: Political Economy and Social History since 1970

MaxPo, Sciences Po, Paris

May 16-18, 2018

Joint PhD Seminar of Sciences Po and MPIfG

Historical Perspectives on Neoliberalism: Political Economy and Social History since 1970

MaxPo, Sciences Po, Paris

January 12-13, 2018

MaxPo's Fifth-Anniversary International Conference

Destabilizing Orders – Understanding the Consequences of Neoliberalism

Sciences Po, Paris

April 21-22, 2016

Workshop 8 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

Inequality: The Wealth–Credit–Housing Nexus and Its Political Consequences

Sciences Po, Paris

April 16-17, 2015

Workshop 7 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

Politics and Society in the Age of Financialization

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

May 30-31, 2013

Workshop 6 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

Joint Conference MaxPo/Sciences Po/University of California-Berkeley

Graduate Student Conference on Economic Moralities

Amphithéâtre Claude Erignac, 13 rue de l’Université, Sciences Po, Paris

December 15-16, 2011

Workshop 5 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

Coping with Instability in Market Societies

Sciences Po, Paris

May 16-17, 2011

Workshop 4 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

The Constitution of Quality in Markets

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

April 8-9, 2010

Workshop 3 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

Expert Knowledge in Economic Governance

Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Paris

March 25-27, 2009

Workshop 2 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

States and Markets

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

December 3-5, 2008

Workshop 1 – Joint Workshop Series "States and Markets"

States and Markets

Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Paris

Previous International symposia

December 6−7, 2018

MaxPo and Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World (ReNEW)

Neoliberalism in the Nordics: Developing an Absent Theme

Workshop organized by Jenny Andersson, Mitchell Dean, and Chris Howell
Location: Sciences Po, Paris

June 29-30, 2015

Conference/International Symposium

Pricing Practices, Ranking Practices: Evaluation in Economic Life

Département de Sciences sociales et Département d’Économie École normale supérieure, Paris, France

October 9-10, 2014

Conference/International Symposium

Finance at Work

Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense; Nanterre

November 29, 2012

MaxPo Opening Ceremony

Moral Categories in the Financial Crisis

Roundtable on the occasion of the opening of MaxPo
Marion Fourcade, MaxPo
Philippe Steiner, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Socieites, Cologne
Cornelia Woll, MaxPo
Sciences Po and and Residence of the German Ambassador in Paris

Previous other conferences, workshops, and seminars

Book round table

September 20, 2021

Cornelia Woll: Economic Lawfare − The Geopolitics of Corporate Justice

Chair: Katja Langenbucher, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and Sciences Po Law School
Invitees: Brandon Garrett, Duke University Law School, Abraham Newman, Georgetown University, Regis Bismuth, Sciences Po Law School

October 7-9, 2020

The Political Economy of Law Enforcement

Workshop, Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Political Economy: What’s the Value Added?

Convenors: Colin Hay and Matthias Thiemann
Location: Sciences Po, Room Goguel, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris

November 5, 2018 | 5−7 p.m.

MaxPo and Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation

Inclusive Capitalism and Social Progress

Debate around the conclusions of the International Panel for Social Progress (IPSP) and the book "A Manifesto for Social Progress: Ideas for a Better Society"

April 15-16, 2016

Joint workshop with the FUTUREPOL project

Prediction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Constitution of Futurity

MaxPo, Sciences Po, Paris

March 17-18, 2016

Joint conference with MaxPo and IEA, Paris

Economic Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives and Calculation

Institut d’études avancées de Paris, 17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris

July 6-8, 2015

Territories of the Economy

Tenth Max Planck Summer Conference on Economy and Society
Sciences Po

July 7-9, 2014

Technology, Economy, Democracy

Ninth Max Planck Summer Conference on Economy and Society
Columbia University, New York, USA

July 1-3, 2013

Economics and Democracy: Are They Still Compatible?

Eighth Max Planck Summer Conference on Economy and Society
European University Institute, Florence, Italy