Jan Paul Heisig
mail: heisig [at] wzb [dot] eu
D-10785 Berlin
since 09 2007
Research Fellow in the Research Unit “Inequality and Social Integration”, “Life Course Risks Project - The Economic Consequences of Key Life Risks in Germany and the US and Their Evolution since the 1980s”; at the same time from September 2008 to February 2009 Research Fellow in the project “Einstiegswege in den Arbeitsmarkt“ (Ways of Entry in the Labor Market) (with J. Allmendinger and J. Giesecke)
08 2007
Diploma (MA equivalent) in Sociology at the Free University Berlin. Thesis: “The Domestic Division of Labor in Comparative Perspective”
2005 – 2006
Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, USA
Kohler, Ulrich/Ehlert, Martin/Grell, Britta/Heisig, Jan Paul/Radenacker, Anke/Wörz, Markus (forthcoming): "Verarmungsrisiken nach kritischen Lebensereignissen in Deutschland und den USA". In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 64, H. 2.
Dissertation on the level and the sources of income mobility at higher ages (50 and above).