Jing Shen, Ph.D.

Former External Fellow and Project Director
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
 
 

Projects

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.1814
Inside Integration and Acculturation—Migrants' Life Satisfaction in Europe
A3.1911
Immigrants’ Social Networks at the Workplace: Development, Characteristics, and Outcomes from a Comparative Perspective

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Journal Articles

Shen, Jing, and David Bartram (2021): Fare Differently, Feel Differently: Mental Well-Being of UK-Born and Foreign-Born Working Men during the COVID-19 Pandemic. European Societies , 23, issue suppl. 1, pp. S370-S383. more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2021): Gendered Body Mass and Life Satisfaction Among Youth in Three Western European Immigrant-Receiving Countries. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, (article no. 695374). more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2020): Does the religious context matter? The causal effect of religious diversity on individual life satisfaction in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46, issue 17, pp. 3722-3743. more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2020): Immigrants’ relative income and life satisfaction: Comparison groups from a multi-generational perspective. Acta Sociologica, 63, issue 1, pp. 82-102. more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2020): Job Loss or Income Loss: How the Detrimental Effect of Unemployment on Men's Life Satisfaction Differs by Immigration Status. Frontiers in Sociology, 5, (article no. 10), pp. 1-14 (e-only). more
Kogan, Irena, and Jing Shen (2019): It’s the Economy! Perceptions of Host-Countries’ Institutions and Individual Life Satisfaction of Intra-European Migrants. Frontiers in Sociology, 4, issue 42, pp. 1-16. more
Kogan, Irena, Jing Shen and Manuel Siegert (2018): What Makes a Satisfied Immigrant? Host-Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries. Journal of Happiness Studies, 19, issue 6, pp. 1783–1809. more
Shen, Jing (2018): State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China, by Shuang Chen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 342 pp. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780804799034.. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 47, issue 6, pp. 693-694. more
Shen, Jing, and Yanjie Bian (2018): The Causal Effect of Social Capital on Income: A New Analytic Strategy. Social Networks, 54, pp. 82-90. more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2017): Contact Use in Job Placement and Its Impact on the Gender Earnings Gap in Transitional Urban China: Evidence from Xiamen, 1999. International Sociology, 32, issue 1, pp. 130-154. more
Shen, Jing, and Wei Xu (2017): Institutions and individual strategies: how did job seekers respond to the changing employment environment in urban China?. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 4, issue 13, pp. 1-25. more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2017): To Whom Is Contact Use Beneficial? The Impacts of Self-Selected Contact Use on Gender Income Differentials in the Transitional Economy of Urban China. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 9, issue 2, pp. 1-16. more
Fong, Eric, and Jing Shen (2016): Participation in Voluntary Associations and Social Contact of Immigrants in Canada. American Behavioral Scientist , 60, issue 5-6, pp. 617-636. more
Shen, Jing (2016): Book Review: The Hope of the Country with a Large Population: Theories and Practices of China’s Population Transformation. Canadian Studies in Population, 43, issue 1-2, pp. 158-159. more
Shen, Jing (2015): A Third Type of Job Search Behavior: The Use of the Formal-Informal Joint Channel in Matching Individual Qualifications with Hiring Requirements. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2, issue 3, pp. 1-21. more

Book Chapters

Bian, Yanjie, and Jing Shen (2015): Felt-Suffering and Its Social Variations in China. Pp. 187-202 in: Ronald Anderson (Ed.) World Suffering and Quality for Life. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer. more

Conference Presentations

Shen, Jing (2020): Gender inequality in childcare and mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical evidence from the UK. [I-Scientist-Conference, (virtual conference), September 16th to September 19th, 2020] more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2020): How Do Host- and Home-Country Labour Market Contexts Matter? Unemployed Immigrant Men’s Life Satisfaction in Europe. [115th ASA Annual Meeting, (virtual conference), August 08th to August 11th, 2020] more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2019): Does Contextual Exposure Matter? Examining the Causal Effect of Religious Diversity on Life Satisfaction in the UK, 2009-2016. [114th ASA Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 10th to August 13th, 2019] more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2019): How Do Host- and Home-Country Labour Market Contexts Matter? Understanding the Gap of Life Satisfaction between Unemployed and Employed Immigrants Men across European Countries. [ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Frankfurt, March 21st to March 23rd, 2019] more
Shen, Jing (2018): Does contextual exposure matter? Examining the causal effect of religious diversity on life satisfaction in the UK, 2009-2016. [XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, July 15th to July 21st, 2018] more
Shen, Jing (2018): Gains and Losses in Life Satisfaction of UK Society Following Brexit: A Triple-Difference Approach. [ECSR Annual Conference, Paris, October 29th to October 31st, 2018] more
Kogan, Irena, and Jing Shen (2016): The Next Top Model? Body Size and Life Satisfaction among the European Youth. [ECSR 2016 Conference, University of Oxford, September 22nd to September 24th, 2016] more
Kogan, Irena, Jing Shen and Manuel Siegert (2016): What Makes a Satisfied Immigrant? Host-Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries. [3rd International ESS Conference “Understanding key challenges for European societies in the 21st century”, University of Lausanne, July 13th to July 15th, 2016] more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2016): Financial Well-Being and the Non-Pecuniary Costs of Unemployment: How Do Immigration Status and Gender Matter in Life Satisfaction of the Unemployed Population in the United Kingdom, 2009-2015?. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, University of Bern, August 29th to August 31st, 2016] more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2016): Fluid Points of Reference Income and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Multi-Generational Comparison: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 2009-2015. [ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, National University of Singapore, May 26th to May 28th, 2016] more
Kogan, Irena, Jing Shen and Manuel Siegert (2015): The right choice? Immigrants’ life satisfaction in the European receiving countries. [ECSR Conference 2015 - Cumulative Inequalities in the Life Course, Tallinn University, September 10th to September 12th, 2015] more
Shen, Jing, and Irena Kogan (2015): Self-Selected Contact Use and Its Impact on Gender Income Differentials in Urban China. [XXXV International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Hilton Metropole, Brighton, June 23rd to June 28th, 2015] more