// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Social Origin, Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Does Further Education make a Difference?
 

The project deals with the question of how and to what extent investments in education beyond the originally acquired level influence social inequalities in the labour market. The project examines not only if these investments in education contribute to an unequal distribution of labour market returns, but also addresses the question of how new investments in education influence the relationship between social origin and labour market outcomes at the macro-level.

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

2021 - ongoing

Doctoral Researcher, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg

2003 - 2009

Social Sciences (Diploma), University of Mannheim

2005 - 2006

DAAD-Scholarship - Visiting Student, Graduate School of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, USA

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2024

Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung, GEBF-Tagung: Bildung verstehen - Partizipation erreichen - Transfer gestalten. Presentation: "Formale Höherqualifizierung und soziale Ungleichheit" (with Steffen Schindler). Potsdam, 18-20 March 2024.

2023

National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), 8th International Conference: Survey Data Linked to Administrative Data: NEPS-ADIAB & Co, Bamberg. Presentation: "Educational Upgrading and Social Inequality – Analyses based on NEPS-SC6-ADIAB" (with Steffen Schindler). Bamberg, 9-10 November 2023.

Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS): Annual International Conference: Life Courses in Times of Uncertainty. Presentation: "Educational Upgrading and Social Inequality in Earnings" (with Steffen Schindler). Munich, 9-11 October 2023.

European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR): Annual Conference: European Societies in Times of Uncertainty. Presentation: "Educational Upgrading and Social Inequality in Wages" (with Steffen Schindler). Prague, Czech Republic, 18-20 September 2023.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Sektion Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse: Frühjahrstagung. Presentation: "Die Rolle formaler Höherqualifizierungen bei der Formierung sozialer Ungleichheit" (with Steffen Schindler). Mannheim, 22-24 March 2023.

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// EXPERIENCE
 

2021 - ongoing

Research Assistant, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Chair: Prof. Dr. Steffen Schindler, Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course

2009 - 2013

Research Assistant, University of Cologne, Research Institute of Sociology