Dr. Reinhard Pollak (on parental leave)

since 2009
Research fellow and deputy director of the Project Group "National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning” at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin

2009
Dissertation (Dr. rer. soc.) at University of Mannheim; Title: "Equal Opportunities through Education? A Cross-National Comparison of the Effect of Education on Social Mobility in 20th Century Europe" (in German)

2007 – 2008
Research fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB) in the Research Unit "Inequality and Social Integration"

2001 – 2006
Research Fellow at University of Mannheim

1994 – 2001
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education at University of Mannheim and Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; Diplom at University of Mannheim. Thesis: „Education and Social Mobility in Germany“ (in German)

• Reimer, David/Pollak, Reinhard (2010): "Educational Expansion and Its Consequences for Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in West Germany". In: European Sociological Review, Vol. 26, No. 4, S. 415-430.
• Breen, Richard/Luijkx, Ruud/Müller, Walter/Pollak, Reinhard (2010): "Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe. Class Inequalities and Gender Differences". In: European Sociological Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, S. 31-48.
• Jonsson, Jan O./Grusky, David B./Di Carlo, Matthew/Pollak, Reinhard/Brinton, Mary C. (2009): "Microclass Mobility. Social Reproduction in Four Countries". In: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 114, No. 4, S. 977-1036.
• Breen, Richard/Luijkx, Ruud/Müller, Walter/Pollak, Reinhard (2009): "Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment. Evidence from Eight European Countries". In: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 114, No. 5, S. 1475-1521.