Benjamin Schulz
CV
Since 08/2019 Operational management NEPS – Stage 8 and Post-Doc at WZB Berlin Social Science Center (project group "National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning")
07/2014 - 07/2019 Researcher in the project group "National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning", WZB Berlin Social Science Center
02/2013 - 12/2014 Research Assistant at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
06/2009 - 01/2013 Research Assistant at the Chair of General Sociology, University of Mannheim (Professor Frank Kalter)
since 2009 PhD student at University of Mannheim (Thesis: Social Embeddedness and Structural Integration - Explaining Origins of Ethnic Stratifications in Germany over the Life-Course.)
11/2007 - 05/2009 Research Assistant at the Chair of Sociology and Research Methods at the University of Leipzig
09/2007 Magister Artium in Sociology (minor subjects: philosophy, logic/philosophy of science, University of Leipzig)
04/2007 - 09/2009 Freelance analyst and research consultant, dii healthcare GmbH, Leipzig
09/2006 - 10/2006 Trainee, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, Marion Caspers-Merk
04/2004 - 09/2007 Student Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, University of Leipzig
Selected Publications
(2018): Carol, S. & Schulz, B.: Religiosity as a Bridge or Barrier to Immigrant Children’s Educational Achievement? Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 55, pp. 75-88. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2018.04.001).
(2017): Schulz, B., Horr, A. & Hoenig, K.: The position generator in the NEPS (NEPS Survey Paper No. 23). Bamberg, Germany: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://www.neps-data.de/Portals/0/Survey%20Papers/SP_XXIII.pdf
(2016): Schulz, B. & Leszczensky, L.: Native Friends and Host Country Identification Among Adolescent Immigrants in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Boundaries. International Migration Review, 50(1), 163-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12163
(2016): Hoenig, K., Pollak, R., Schulz, B. & Stocké, V.: Social Capital, Participation in Adult Education, and Labor Market Success: Constructing a New Instrument. In H.-P. Blossfeld, J. von Maurice, M. Bayer, J. Skopek (Eds.) Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys: The Example of the National Educational Panel Study (pp. 291-312). Frankfurt/New York: Springer.
(2013): Stetiger Wandel über Generationen. Forschung: Magazin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, SPEZIAL Demografie, p. 28-33 (zusammen mit Frank Kalter).
(2013): Social Embedding and Educational Achievement of Immigrants. A Review and Appraisal. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: MZES Working Paper No. 152].
(2011): The Education of Migrants and their Children across the Life Course. In Blossfeld, H.-P., Roßbach, H.-G., von Maurice, J., Education as a Lifelong Process - The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). (Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaften; Sonderheft 14., pp. 121-137). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. (zusammen mit Cornelia Kristen, Aileen Edele, Frank Kalter, Irena Kogan, Petra Stanat und Gisela Will).
(2010): Die Wirkung sozialen Kapitals auf den Arbeitsmarkterfolg polnischer Migranten in Deutschland am Beispiel des Berlin-Samples des PMP. In Soeffner, H.-G. (Ed.), Unsichere Zeiten. Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.