Markus Klein

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

Projects

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

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
RP8
Educational Expansion, Skill-biased Technological Change and Occupational Returns to Education. A Trend Analysis of Tertiary Graduates’ Employment Outlook

RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification

Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)
Social Selectivity in Tertiary Education and Labour Market and Stratification Outcomes

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

Jacob, Marita, and Markus Klein (2013): Der Einfluss der Bildungsherkunft auf den Berufseinstieg und die ersten Erwerbsjahre von Universitätsabsolventen. Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 35, issue 1, pp. 8-37. more
Klein, Markus (2011): Higher education and non-pecuniary returns in Germany: tracing the mechanisms behind field of study effects at the start of the career. Irish Educational Studies, 30, issue 2, pp. 253-270. 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
Klein, Markus (2011): Trends in the association between educational attainment and class destinations in West Germany: Looking inside the service class. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 29, issue 4, pp. 427-444. 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
Klein, Markus, and Michael Kühhirt (2010): Sozial erwünschtes Antwortverhalten bezüglich der Teilung häuslicher Arbeit: Die Interaktion von Interviewergeschlecht und Befragtenmerkmalen in Telefoninterviews. Methoden - Daten - Analysen, 4, issue 2, pp. 79-104. more
Müller, Walter, Markus Klein, Steffen Schindler and Reinhard Pollak (2010): Long-Term Development of Social Disparities in Eligibility for Higher Education in Germany (Cyrillic). Sociological Problems, 43, issue 1/2, pp. 146-174 . more
Müller, Walter, and Markus Klein (2008): Schein oder Sein: Bildungsdisparitäten in der europäischen Statistik. Eine Illustration am Beispiel Deutschlands. Schmollers Jahrbuch. Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 128, issue 4, pp. 511-543. more

Book Chapters

Müller, Walter, and Markus Klein (2012): Die Klassenbasis in den Parteipräferenzen des deutschen Wählers. Erosion oder Wandel. Pp. 85-110 in: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (Ed.) Wählen in Deutschland. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Klein, Markus, Steffen Schindler, Reinhard Pollak and Walter Müller (2010): Soziale Disparitäten in der Sekundarstufe und ihre langfristige Entwicklung. Pp. 47-73 in: Jürgen Baumert, Kai Maaz, Ulrich Trautwein (Eds.) Bildungsentscheidungen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more

MZES Working Papers

Klein, Markus (2010): Mechanisms for the Effect of Field of Study on the Transition from Higher Education to Work. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 130] more

Thesis

Klein, Markus (2013): Returns to education in West Germany over time: educational expansion, occupational upgrading and the job matching process. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. more

Conference Presentations

Klein, Markus (2012): Educational Attainment and Occupational Prestige at Labor Market Entry in West Germany: Dissolution or Reinforcement?. [ISA RC28 Spring 2012 Meeting 'Economic Transformation and Social Stratification in Comparative Perspective', Hongkong, May 10th to May 13th, 2012] more
Klein, Markus (2011): Rising Educational Differentials in Unemployment Risks: The Impact of Macrostructural and Macroeconomic Changes in West Germany. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Opportunity, Meritocracy and Changing Patterns of Social Inequality", University of Iowa, Iowa City, August 09th to August 12th, 2011] 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
Klein, Markus (2010): Educational Expansion and its Impact on the Educational Stratification of Unemployment in Germany - Tracing the Relative Disadvantage of the Less-Educated. [Conference "Transitions into and out of Higher Education - A Changing Context?" of the European Network on Transitions in Youth, Dublin, September 09th to September 11th, 2010] more
Klein, Markus (2010): Trends in the Association between Educational Credentials and Class Destination - Is Germany a Distinctive Case?. [Joint ECSR/QMSS2/TransEurope Conference ‘Analysing Education, Family, Work and Welfare in Modern Societies: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evidence', Bamberg, September 30th to October 02nd, 2010] more
Klein, Markus (2010): Trends in the Association between Educational Credentials and Class Destination in Germany. How Far Do Employers Select on Merit?. [2010 ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Haifa, May 09th to May 11th, 2010] more
Klein, Markus (2010): Warum ist der Berufseinstieg von Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlern problematisch? Ein Erklärungsversuch von Studienfacheffekten beim Erwerbseintritt. [HIS Forschungskolloquium, Hannover, April 08th, 2010] more
Klein, Markus (2009): Educational inequality in international comparions - how data aggregation produces artefacts. [Construire une nomenclature pour la comparaison internationale des systèmes éducatifs. Enjeux, usages et limites., Paris, March 13th, 2009] more
Klein, Markus (2009): Mechanisms for the Effect of Field of Study on the Transition from Higher Education to Work: a Test of the Training Costs Model. [Equalsoc & ECSR joint Summer School 2009, Trento, August 31st to September 05th, 2009] more
Klein, Markus (2009): Mechanisms for the Effect of Field of Study on the Transition from Higher Education to Work: a Test of the Training Costs Model. [Conference "Youth Transitions at Risk?" of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Dijon, September 17th to September 19th, 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
Müller, Walter, and Markus Klein (2009): Educational inequality in international comparisons: How data aggregation produces artefacts. [European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, Mannheim, GESIS, March 05th to March 06th, 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