Markus Weißmann

Researcher
markus.weissmann [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2824
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2803
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:106
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.1848
Social Networks and the Transition from Education to Work
A2.1907
The Influence of Social Contacts on the Vocational Training Success and Entry into the First Job

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.1811
Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)

Publications

Journal Articles

Dollmann, Jörg, Irena Kogan and Markus Weißmann (2024): When your accent betrays you: the role of foreign accents in school-to-work transition of ethnic minority youth in Germany. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50, issue 12, pp. 2943-2986. more
Kogan, Irena, Markus Weißmann and Jörg Dollmann (2024): Police discrimination and police distrust among ethnic minority adolescents in Germany. Frontiers in Sociology, 9, (Article no. 1231774, pp. 1-15). more
Weißmann, Markus, and Tobias Roth (2023): Pre-existing company contacts and premature termination of apprenticeship training in Germany. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 87, (article no. 100839). more
Roth, Tobias, and Markus Weißmann (2022): The Role of Parents’ Native and Migrant Contacts on the Labour Market in the School-to-Work Transition of Adolescents in Germany. European Sociological Review, 38, issue 5, pp. 707–724. more
Kogan, Irena, Jörg Dollmann and Markus Weißmann (2021): In the Ear of the Listener: The Role of Foreign Accent in Interethnic Friendships and Partnerships. International Migration Review, 55, issue 3, pp. 746-784. more
Dollmann, Jörg, Irena Kogan and Markus Weißmann (2020): Speaking Accent-Free in L2 Beyond the Critical Period: The Compensatory Role of Individual Abilities and Opportunity Structures. Applied Linguistics, 41, issue 5, pp. 787–809. more
Dollmann, Jörg, and Markus Weißmann (2020): The Story after Immigrants’ Ambitious Educational Choices: Real Improvement or Back to Square One?. European Sociological Review, 36, issue 1, pp. 32-47. more
Kogan, Irena, and Markus Weißmann (2020): Religion and Sexuality: Between- and Within-Individual Differences in Attitudes to Pre-marital Cohabitation among Adolescents in Four European Countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46, issue 17, pp. 3630-3654. more
Kogan, Irena, and Markus Weißmann (2013): Immigrants' initial steps in Germany and their later economic success. Advances in Life Course Research, 18, issue 3, pp. 185-198. more

Book Chapters

Kogan, Irena, Markus Weißmann and Jörg Dollmann (2024): Defying Discrimination? Germany's Ethnic Minorities within Education and Training Systems. Pp. 99-119 in: Lawrence Yang, Maureen A. Eger, Bruce Link (Eds.) Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. more
Roth, Tobias, and Markus Weißmann (2023): Ethnic Differences in Social Capital Mobilization at the Transition to Vocational Training in Germany. Pp. 369-401 in: Sabine Weinert, Gwendolin Blossfeld, Hans-Peter Blossfeld (Eds.) Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories: Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). 1stth ed., Cham: Springer International Publishing. more
Weißmann, Markus, Jörg Dollmann and Irena Kogan (2023): Educational and school-to-work pathways of majority and ethnic minority youth in Germany: Direct links and detours. Pp. 82-104 in: Merike Darmody, Emer Smyth (Eds.) Post-school Pathways of Migrant-Origin Youth in Europe. 1st ed., London: Routledge. more
Dollmann, Jörg, and Markus Weißmann (2022): "Ethnic Choice Effects“: Welche Rolle spielt die räumliche Verfügbarkeit anspruchsvoller Bildungsalternativen?. Pp. 141-167 in: Hanno Kruse, Janna Teltemann (Eds.) Differenz im Raum Sozialstruktur und Grenzziehung in deutschen Städten. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more

MZES Working Papers

Weißmann, Markus, and Amrei Maddox (2016): Early Ethnic Partner Choice among Natives and Descendants of Immigrants in Germany. The Role of Personal Preferences and Parental Influence. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 164] more

Papers / Reports

Soiné, Hannah, Lena Arnold, Jörg Dollmann, Leonie Kriegel and Markus Weißmann (2021): Junge Erwachsene und die Pandemie: Erkenntnisse der CILS4COVID-Befragung. Mannheim [MZES Fokus] more

Conference Presentations

Weißmann, Markus (2024): Better off without trying? School-to-work transition outcomes of different education trajectories of young majority and minority adults. [5th International CILS4EU User Conference, MZES, Mannheim, September 26th to September 27th, 2024] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Tobias Roth (2024): Conflict and support during apprenticeship training in Germany: Consequences for apprenticeship success and further employment in the company. [31st Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth (TiY), University of Warsaw, September 04th to September 06th, 2024] more
Weißmann, Markus (2024): Ethnische Unterschiede in der elterlichen Unterstützung beim Übergang in eine Berufsausbildung in Deutschland. [BIBB-Kolloquium zur Berufsbildungsforschung, Bundesinstitut für Berufsforschung, Bonn, January 18th, 2024] more
Dollmann, Jörg, Irena Kogan and Markus Weißmann (2023): The role of regional accent and dialect in ethnic minorities' youth transitions. [Approaches to Migration, Language, and Identity (AMLI) , Zürich, September 07th to September 08th, 2023] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Jörg Dollmann (2023): A bad decision? Consequences of unsuccessful ambitious educational choices of majority and minority adolescents for vocational training opportunities in Germany. [30th Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth (TiY), University of Edinburgh, September 06th to September 08th, 2023] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Tobias Roth (2022): Pre-existing firm contacts and satisfaction with and stability of apprenticeship training in Germany. [DFG Priority Programme SPP1646 Education as a Lifelong Process: Final Conference of the third Funding Phase, (virtual conference), March 28th to March 30th, 2022] more
Dollmann, Jörg, Irena Kogan and Markus Weißmann (2021): Causes and (social) consequences of foreign accents. [Higher seminar in bilingualism research at Stockholm University, (virtual), February 09th, 2021] more
Dollmann, Jörg, Irena Kogan and Markus Weißmann (2021): When your accent betrays you. The role of foreign accents in school-to-work transition of ethnic minority youth in Germany. [18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, (virtual conference), July 07th to July 09th, 2021] more
Dollmann, Jörg, and Markus Weißmann (2019): The story after immigrants' positive educational choices: Real improvement or back to square one?. [ECSR Annual Conference "Inequality over the Life Course", Lausanne, September 12th to September 14th, 2019] more
Dollmann, Jörg, and Markus Weißmann (2019): The story after immigrants’ ambitious educational choices: Real improvement or back to square one?. [International Conference “Immigrants’ Integration: Educational Opportunities & Life Chances”, Ascona, June 23rd to June 28th, 2019] more
Dollmann, Jörg, and Markus Weißmann (2019): What follows immigrants’ ambitious choices: Real improvement or back to square one?. [2nd Academy of Sociology Conference: "Digital Societies", Konstanz, September 25th to September 27th, 2019] more
Dollmann, Jörg, and Markus Weißmann (2019): What follows immigrants’ positive choices: Real improvement or back to square one?. [3rd International CILS4EU User Conference, MZES, Mannheim, February 07th to February 08th, 2019] more
Kogan, Irena, Jörg Dollmann and Markus Weißmann (2019): When your accent betrays you: The role of foreign accents in school-to-work transition of the ethnic minority youth in Germany. [ECSR Annual Conference "Inequality over the Life Course", Lausanne, September 12th to September 14th, 2019] more
Roth, Tobias, and Markus Weißmann (2019): The influence of parents’ social capital on their children’s transition to vocational training in Germany. [1st Workshop of the Anglo-German Early Career Researcher Network on School-to-Work Transitions and Consequences for Individual Life Courses, Nürnberg, April 04th to April 05th, 2019] more
Roth, Tobias, and Markus Weißmann (2019): The role of parents’ ethnic networks in the school-to-work transition in Germany. [ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2019, Frankfurt, March 21st to March 23rd, 2019] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Tobias Roth (2019): Occupational aspirations and ethnic inequalities at the transition from school to vocational training in Germany. [International Conference "Immigrants' Integration: Educational Opportunities & Life Chances", Ascona, June 23rd to June 28th, 2019] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Tobias Roth (2019): Occupational aspirations and ethnic inequalities at the transition from school to vocational training in Germany. [27th Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth, Maastricht, October 02nd to October 05th, 2019] more
Dollmann, Jörg, Irena Kogan and Markus Weißmann (2017): Ursache und Wirkung fremdsprachiger Akzente aus soziologischer Perspektive. [Gastvortrag am Institut für Musik, Medien- und Sprechwissenschaften (IMMS); Abteilung Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, May 18th, 2017] more
Roth, Tobias, and Markus Weißmann (2017): On the way from school to work: investigating ethnic inequalities in the transition to vocational training in Germany. [ECSR 2017 Conference "Institutions, Inequality and Social Dynamics", Bocconi University, Milano, August 31st to September 02nd, 2017] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Tobias Roth (2017): Ethnic networks and ethnic differences at the transition to vocational training in Germany. [3rd International Conference on Transitions in Youth, Young Adulthood and Beyond, University of Bern, September 29th to September 30th, 2017] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Zerrin Salikutluk (2016): Ethnic differences in transitions to vocational education and training at the end of lower secondary schooling in Germany. [24th Annual Workshop of Transitions in Youth (TIY): Transition to Adulthood and Life Course Inequalities: Good Entry, Good Life?, University of Trento, September 07th to September 10th, 2016] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Zerrin Salikutluk (2016): Ethnic differences in transitions to vocational education and training at the end of lower secondary schooling in Germany. [ECSR 2016 Conference, University of Oxford, September 22nd to September 24th, 2016] more
Weißmann, Markus (2016): Vocational training trajectories and the transition from school to working life in Germany: comparing native and immigrant youth. [1st International CILS4EU User Conference, MZES, Mannheim, December 01st to December 02nd, 2016] more
Weißmann, Markus, and Zerrin Salikutluk (2015): Ethnic differences in transitions to vocational education and training at the end of lower secondary schooling in Germany. [ CILS4EU 2015 Stockholm Conference, Stockholm, December 17th to December 18th, 2015] more
Weißmann, Markus (2015): Temporary employment and dynamics of labour market entry in European comparison: The role of educational systems and educational degrees. [23rd Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth, Masaryk University, Brno, September 02nd to September 05th, 2015] more