COIN Annual Workshop 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.