Felix Weiss

former staff member
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
 
 

Research Interests

  • Social inequality and social mobility
  • Labour markets
  • Sociology of the life course
  • Educational Sociology

Profile/Career

Felix Weiss studied sociology, political science and business administration at the University of Mannheim and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China and obtained his Diploma in Social Sciences in 2006.

Projects

RP8 A2 Spheres of Societal Integration: Family, Education, and Labour Markets

RP8
Student Employment. Analysing Inequalities in Term-time Working and its Effects on Labour Market Entry
RP8
Educational Careers and Social Inequality – Analysis of the Impact of Social Origin on Educational Career Patterns and Their Labor Market Outcomes from a Comparative Perspective

RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification

Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)
Social Inequality in Educational Careers of Young Adults

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

Weiss, Felix, and Mirte M.M. Scholten (2014): Gender differences in the influence of parental class on young adults’ participation in postsecondary education in the US. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 38, issue 2, pp. 182-199. more
Weiss, Felix, and Hanna-Marei Steininger (2013): Educational family background and the realisation of educational career intentions: participation of German upper secondary graduates in higher education over time. Higher Education, 66, issue 2, pp. 189-202. more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2011): Class origin and young adults' re-enrollment. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 29, issue 4, pp. 415-426. more
Klein, Markus, and Felix Weiss (2011): Is forcing them worth the effort? Benefits of mandatory internships for graduates from diverse family background at labour market entry. Studies in Higher Education, 36, issue 8, pp. 969-987. more
Schindler, Steffen, Felix Weiss and Tobias Hubert (2011): Explaining the class gap in training - the role of employment relations and job characteristics. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 30, issue 2, pp. 213-232. more
Weiss, Felix, and Markus Klein (2011): Soziale Netzwerke und Jobfindung von Hochschulabsolventen - Die Bedeutung des Netzwerktyps für monetäre Arbeitsmarkterträge und Ausbildungsadäquatheit. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 40, issue 3, pp. 228-245. more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2010): From higher education to work patterns of labor market entry in Germany and the US. Higher Education, 60, issue 5, pp. 529-542. more
Müller, Walter, Heike Wirth, Gerrit Bauer, Reinhard Pollak and Felix Weiss (2007): Entwicklung einer Europäischen Sozioökonomischen Klassifikation. Wirtschaft und Statistik, 5, pp. 527-530. more
Müller, Walter, Heike Wirth, Gerrit Bauer, Reinhard Pollak and Felix Weiss (2006): ESeC - Kurzbericht zur Validierung und Operationalisierung einer europäischen sozioökonomischen Klassifikation. ZUMA-Nachrichten, 30, issue 59, pp. 111-119. more

Book Chapters

Jacob, Marita, Hanna-Marei Steininger and Felix Weiss (2013): Bleibt’s dabei? Soziale Ungleichheiten in der Studienabsicht und ihrer Realisierung nach einer beruflichen Ausbildung. Pp. 307-322 in: Jupp Asdonk, Sebastian U. Kuhnen, Philipp Bornkessel (Eds.) Von der Schule zur Hochschule: Analysen, Konzeptionen und Gestaltungsperspektiven des Übergangs. Münster: Waxmann Verlag. more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2010): Soziale Selektivität beim Hochschulzugang - Veränderungen der Zugangssequenzen zur Hochschule im Kohortenvergleich. Pp. 285-312 in: Birgit Becker, David Reimer (Eds.) Vom Kindergarten bis zur Hochschule. Die Generierung von ethnischen und sozialen Disparitäten in der Bildungsbiographie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more
Pollak, Reinhard, Gerrit Bauer, Walter Müller, Felix Weiss and Heike Wirth (2010): The comparative measurement of supervisory status. Pp. 138-158 in: David Rose, Eric Harrison (Eds.) Social Class in Europe - an Introduction to the European Socio-Economic Classification. New York: Routledge. more
Pollak, Reinhard, Heike Wirth, Felix Weiss, Gerrit Bauer and Walter Müller (2009): On the comparative measurement of supervisory status using the examples of the ESS and the EU-LFS. Pp. 173-206 in: Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Sladana Sakac Magdalenic, Christof Wolf (Eds.) International vergleichende Sozialforschung. Ansätze und Messkonzepte unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more
Wirth, Heike, Cornelia Gresch, Walter Müller, Reinhard Pollak and Felix Weiss (2009): Measuring social class: the case of Germany. Pp. 114-137 in: David Rose, Eric Harrison (Eds.) Social Class in Europe - an Introduction to the European Socio-Economic Classification. Abingdon: Routledge. more

MZES Working Papers

Wirth, Heike, Cornelia Gresch, Walter Müller, Reinhard Pollak and Felix Weiss (2009): Validating the ESeC-scheme as operationalization of social class: The case of Germany. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 119] more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2008): From higher education to work: Patterns of labor market entry in Germany and the US. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 110] more

Thesis

Weiss, Felix (2013): Postsecondary educational careers and social inequality: an analysis of social origin differences in educational career trajectories and their labor market outcomes in the US, Sweden and Germany. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. more

Papers / Reports

Bauer, Gerrit, Jean-Marie Jungblut, Walter Müller, Reinhard Pollak, Felix Weiss and Heike Wirth (2006): Issues in the Comparative Measurement of the Supervisory Function. Bled more

Conference Presentations

Weiss, Felix, and Josipa Roksa (2012): Blurring Boundaries Between School and Work in the U.S. - New Dimensions of Educational Inequality?. [International Sociological Association RC28 on Social Stratification and Social Mobility Spring Meeting, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 10th to May 14th, 2012] more
Weiss, Felix, and Anja Grauenhorst (2012): More education - smaller returns? Education to work transitions with and without vocational eucation. [ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, September 24th to September 26th, 2012] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2012): You snooze, you lose? Returns to interrupted college education in the U.S.. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting on “Labor Market and Educational Transitions in Uncertain Times”, Charlottesville, VA, August 13th to August 15th, 2012] more
Weiss, Felix (2011): EMI in Germany: Two Cases of Qualitative Differentiation in Education. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Iowa City, August 10th to August 13th, 2011] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2011): Inequalities beyond access? Labour market conditions and social differences in students’ jobs. [American Sociological Association 106th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 20th to August 23rd, 2011] more
Weiss, Felix (2011): Ways to and through higher education – describing social differences in higher education patterns in Germany, Sweden and the US. [Education in turbulent times: 6th Annual Conference of the Albanian Institute of Sociology (AIS), Tirana, November 21st to November 22nd, 2011] more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2010): Class origin and young adults´ re-enrollment decisions. [Higher education and beyond - Inequalities regarding entrance to higher education and educational credentials, Monte Verità, Ascona, July 04th to July 09th, 2010] more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2010): Inequalities beyond access? Labour market conditions and social differences in students' jobs. [Transition in Youth Network Conference, Dublin, September 09th to September 11th, 2010] more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2010): Inequalities beyond access? Labour market conditions and social differences in students’ jobs. [European Network on Transitions in Youth Conference 2010 Theme: Transitions into and out of Higher Education – A Changing Context?, Dublin, September 09th to September 11th, 2010] more
Klein, Markus, and Felix Weiss (2010): Die Erfassung zentraler Indikatoren der sozialen Herkunft. [FiSS Forschungsinitiative zu Sprachdiagnostik und Sprachförderung, Bamberg, March 19th, 2010] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2010): Inequalities beyond access? Labour market conditions and social differences in students´ jobs. [Higher education and beyond - Inequalities regarding entrance to higher education and educational credentials, Monte Verità, Ascona, July 04th to July 09th, 2010] more
Weiss, Felix (2010): Relative class position of young adults and their parents and the decision to get more education – a comparison of Sweden, Germany and the US. [Research Network EQUALSOC - Final Conference, Amsterdam, June 03rd to June 05th, 2010] more
Weiss, Felix (2010): Ungleichheit über den Zugang hinaus. Arbeitsmarktbedingungen und die soziale Differenzierung studentischer Erwerbstätigkeit. [Kolloquium Empirische Sozialforschung, Konstanz, November 17th, 2010] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2010): Ways through higher education in three societies - A descriptive comparison of Germany, Sweden and the US. [European Network on Transitions in Youth Conference 2010 Theme: Transitions into and out of Higher Education – A Changing Context?, Dublin, September 09th to September 11th, 2010] more
Jacob, Marita, and Felix Weiss (2009): Class Origin and Young Adults’ Decision to Re-Enroll. [IAB Workshop on Education in Adulthood and the Labour Market, Nürnberg, November 06th to November 07th, 2009] more
Klein, Markus, and Felix Weiss (2009): The provision of productive skills through work experience before graduation. [EQUALSOC EDUC Team Mechanisms for the effect of education on the labour market, Tallinn, June 04th to June 06th, 2009] more
Klein, Markus, and Felix Weiss (2009): The role of social capital in the labor market entry process of graduates from higher education. [International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC 28), Spring Meeting, Renmin University Peking, May 14th to May 16th, 2009] more
Weiss, Felix, and Mirte M.M. Scholten (2009): Gender difference in the influence of parental class on young adults participation in postsecondary education in the US. [IAB Workshop on Education in Adulthood and the Labour Market, Nürnberg, November 06th to November 07th, 2009] more
Weiss, Felix, and Markus Klein (2009): Mandatory internships and the provision of social, human and cultural capital for the transition from higher education to work (Poster Presentation). [International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC 28), Spring Meeting, Renmin University Peking, May 14th to May 16th, 2009] more
Weiss, Felix (2009): Social origin and discontinuities in higher education in Sweden and Germany. [ESCR Conference on changing societies in the context of European Union enlargement, Paris, December 11th, 2009] more
Weiss, Felix, and Hanna-Marei Steininger (2009): Social origin and postsecondary educational careers: plans and their pursuit. [EQUALSOC EDUC Group Meeting Differentiation in Higher Education and its Consequences for Social Inequality, Tallinn, June 04th to June 06th, 2009] more
Weiss, Felix, and Hanna-Marei Steininger (2009): Soziale Herkunft, Vorstellungen über den nachschulischen Werdegang und deren Realisierung. [Forschungskolloquium des Hochschulinformationssystems, Hannover, October 27th, 2009] more
Schindler, Steffen, and Felix Weiss (2008): The Class Gap in Lifelong Learning. [EQUALSOC EDUC Research Team Meeting 'The Training Gap in Lifelong Learning', Barcelona, October 17th to October 18th, 2008] more
Schindler, Steffen, and Felix Weiss (2008): The Class Gap in Lifelong Learning. [EQUALSOC EDUC Research Team Meeting "The Training Gap in Lifelong Learning", Berlin, April 10th, 2008] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2008): Social Origin and Discontinuities in Higher Education in Germany and the US. [Work, Poverty, and inequality in the 21st century, ISA Research Comittee 28 ("Social Stratification & Mobility") Meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, August 06th to August 09th, 2008] more
Weiss, Felix (2008): Social Origin and Late Enrolment in Higher Education in Germany and the US. [ECSR/EQUALSOC Summer School. Social inequalities in contemporary societies - new empirical evidence and methodological innovation, Trento, September 01st to September 06th, 2008] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2008): Soziale Selektivität beim Hochschulzugang - Veränderungen der Zugangswege zur Hochschule im Kohortenvergleich. [34. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Ad-Hoc Gruppe "Hochschule im Wandel", Jena, October 06th to October 10th, 2008] more
Schindler, Steffen, Felix Weiss and Tobias Hubert (2007): Class Differences in the Access to Further Education. [EQUALSOC EDUC Research Team Meeting "The Training Gap in Lifelong Learning", Dijon, November 24th, 2007] more
Weiss, Felix (2007): Conceptionalising supervisory status as a core variable in cross-national surveys. [Second European Survey Research Association Conference, Prague, June 25th to June 29th, 2007] more
Weiss, Felix, and Marita Jacob (2007): Intertwined Educational and Labour Force Career - Transition Patterns of Highschool leavers in Germany and the U.S.. [Workshop of the EDUC Research Group of the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence, Dijon, November 22nd to November 24th, 2007] more
Bauer, Gerrit, Walter Müller, Reinhard Pollak, Felix Weiss, Heike Wirth and Cornelia Hausen (2006): Die Europäische Sozio-ökonomische Klassifikation (ESeC) – zukünftiges Standardinstrument für internationale Vergleiche im Bereich sozialer Ungleichheit. [33. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Kassel, October 12th to October 13th, 2006] more
Müller, Walter, Gerrit Bauer, Felix Weiss and Heike Wirth (2006): Measurement of the Supervisory Function. [ESeC - National Statistical Institutes Conference, Bled, June 29th to July 01st, 2006] more