Francis Zimmermann

Datos Biográficos

ID90197
NOMBREFrancis Zimmermann
NOMBRESFrancis
APELLIDOZimmermann
FIRMAZIMMERMANN F
AFILIACIONESInstitut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
ORCID0000-0001-5645-8342
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS90
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1974
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • MUP-BHP – Enriching Administrative Establishment Data with Commercial Enterprise Data

    Open AccessAndré Diegmann, Sandra Gottschalk et al.ARTICLEJahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie…2026

    The recently established link between the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP), developed by the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, and the administrative establishment information from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) provides a novel opportunity to combine enterprise-level information with establishment-level labour market data. The core MUP-data are originally collected by Creditreform e.V., a credit rating agency that …

  • Is Your Career Determined by the Stars? Western Zodiac Signs and Labor Market Outcomes in Germany

    Open AccessMatthias Collischon, Francis Zimmermann et al.ARTICLEKyklos2026

    An increasing share of people believes that zodiac signs predict life outcomes, like career trajectories, even though there is no scientific basis for this claim. Using German administrative data covering more than 11 million observations from 1 million individuals, we investigate whether Zodiac signs determine labor market outcomes. Since Zodiac signs are supposed to affect personality, and personality is associated with wages, Zodiac signs migh…

  • Why are some EU immigrant groups more disadvantaged on the German labor market than others

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, Florian Zimmermann et al.ARTICLESoziale Welt2026

    Limited transferability of foreign human capital and limited signaling value of foreign degrees are important explanations for immigrants’ labor market disadvantages. While previous scholarship analysed the role of institutional settings in home countries in shaping this limited transferability and signaling value, scholars did not investigate whether similarities between institutional settings of immigrants’ host and home countries matter. This …

  • Dragons Soaring to Success – Zodiac Sign, Education, and Wages of Immigrants from Chinese Societies in Germany

    Open AccessFrancis ZimmermannARTICLEInternational Migration Review2025Referencias: 32

    How culture shapes individuals’ actions is a question at the heart of social sciences, but causal evidence on this topic is scarce, particularly for immigrants. In this research note, I investigate how the belief in Chinese zodiac signs, a cultural belief without scientific basis, influences wages of immigrants from Chinese societies Germany. I focus on the effect of the Dragon zodiac sign, the most auspicious sign. To estimate the causal effect …

  • Immigrants in the Income Elite in Germany

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, Matthias Collischon et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2025Referencias: 24

    Although studying elites is a growing strand of scholarship in social sciences, the literature is mostly migration-blind. In this research note, we examine the role of household composition for immigrants' pathways to the elite of the household income distribution in Germany. Distinguishing between native-native, immigrant-native, and immigrant-immigrant households, we investigate the propensity of being in the income elite by household compositi…

  • Do works councils and collective agreements narrow immigrant-native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German-linked employer-employee data

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, T Wolbring et al.ARTICLESocio-Economic Review2025Referencias: 69

    Recently, workers' bargaining power has been declining worldwide, and immigrant-native wage inequalities have been widening. In this context, cross-sectional studies show narrower immigrant-native wage gaps in firms with works councils or collective agreements. Yet, it remains unclear whether this correlation is causal. Leveraging German longitudinal linked employer-employee data covering 542 firms and 878,403 employee observations, we investigat…

  • The IAB-SMART-Mobility Module

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, Andreas Filser et al.ARTICLEJahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie…2024

    The ubiquity of smartphones has enabled the collection of novel data through their built-in sensors, including geolocation data which can be used to understand mobility behavior. In this project, we leveraged longitudinal geolocation data collected from participants in the 2018 German app study IAB-SMART to develop a set of mobility indicators, such as visited unique locations and traveled distance. The indicators can be linked to the Panel Study…

  • Immigrants' Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany

    Open AccessMatthias Collischon, Anja Wunder et al.ARTICLESociology2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 26

    Owing to their high political and social impact, studying elites is a growing strand of scholarship in sociology. In this research note, we investigate immigrants' pathways into the income elite, that is, the top 1% of Germany's income distribution. Using data from the German Microcensus from 2009 to 2018 covering more than three million observations, we examine the prevalence of immigrants in the elite and immigrants' pathways to access the elit…

  • Do Organizational Policies Narrow Gender Inequality? Novel Evidence from Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, Matthias CollischonARTICLESociological Science2023Citada por: 6Referencias: 18

    Scholars have long proposed that gender inequalities in wages are narrowed by organizational policies to advance gender equality. Using cross-sectional data, scarce previous research has found an association between gender wage inequalities and these organizational policies, but it remains unclear whether this correlation represents a causal effect. We provide first evidence on this topic by using longitudinal linked employer–employee data coveri…

  • Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap

    Open AccessFrancis ZimmermannARTICLEEuropean Societies2023Referencias: 18

    Recent research shows that firms and jobs are more important for understanding gender wage inequalities than individual-level and occupational-level attributes. I investigate how two mechanisms derived from relational inequality theory, opportunity hoarding and exploitation, affect within-firm gender wage gaps. First, men might exclude women from high-paying firms or jobs (i.e. opportunity hoarding), resulting in gender wage inequalities. Second,…

  • The Body in Balance

    Guy Attewell, Patrizia Bassini et al.BOOKBody in Balance2022

    Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion o…

  • Can You Take Your Corporate culture With You? Multinational Companies and the Gender Wage Gap in Germany

    Open AccessFrancis ZimmermannARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2022Referencias: 5

    Multinational companies (MNCs) are an important part of the economy and thus for the labor market. However, their impact on various dimensions of inequality remains unclear. The author analyzes whether MNCs influence gender wage inequalities in their host countries. MNCs might transfer their home countries’ cultures by taking their beliefs, practices, and resulting gender inequalities with them into subsidiaries abroad. Company fixed-effects regr…

  • Managing the Gender Wage Gap-How Female Managers Influence the Gender Wage Gap among Workers

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, Florian ZimmermannARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2022Citada por: 10Referencias: 29

    Previous research shows that female managers narrow the gender wage gap (GWG) among workers but does not disentangle two general underlying mechanisms. First, female managers might use their organizational power to change organizational practices and make organizations more gender-equal. Second, female workers might benefit from interacting with a female manager, e.g. through homophily and mentoring. To disentangle these two mechanisms, I disting…

  • Préface, 2020

    Open AccessFrancis Zimmermann, Christian Baudelot et al.CHAPTERAnthropologie2021

    L’histoire de l’anthropologie culturelle américaine commence à l’université Columbia à New York lorsque Franz Boas (1858-1942) devient professeur d’anthropologie en 1899. Franz Boas venait d’Allemagne, formé à deux grandes traditions intellectuelles allemandes, celle de la géographie et celle des Geisteswissenschaften (les « sciences morales » en français), d’où le passage de l’une et l’autre traditions dans l’anthropologie américaine. Les premie…

  • Information Processing and Commitment

    Open AccessAliya Falk, Armin Falk et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 28

    Beliefs are often found to be sticky and rather immune to new information. In this article, we highlight a specific mechanism that raises resistance to incorporate new information. We provide causal evidence that commitment to a first opinion leads to a neglect of new and challenging information. Being asked to write down an initial estimate before additional information is obtained significantly and substantially reduces the accuracy of final be…

  • Inconspicuous Turmeric

    Francis ZimmermannARTICLEAsian Medicine2014

    Some 20 to 40 herbs play a major role in contemporary ayurvedic pharmaceuticals. Recurrent in compound formulas, most of the time, however, they remain inconspicuous ingredients which, when you follow their trail over the whole catalogue of medicines offered for sale on the ayurvedic market, function as shifters that connect formulas with one another and eventually account for the overall consistency of the pharmacopoeia. Shifters are the subject…

  • A Hindu to His Body

    Francis ZimmermannARTICLEParagrana2009

    This paper is an attempt to put into a historical perspective the knowledge gathered over two centuries, a construction of the knowledge about the representations of the body in the Hindu world. In view of the critical history of Orientalist disciplines that has developed over the last few years we make a clear distinction between two periods in the construction of this knowledge. The representations of the body that emerged from reading, transla…

  • Patterns of Truthfulness

    Open AccessFrancis ZimmermannARTICLEJournal of Indian Philosophy2008Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

  • Sakuntala malayalie

    Open AccessFrancis ZimmermannARTICLEL Homme2008Referencias: 5

    Cette histoire remonte au dé but du XXe siècle chez des Nayar, caste connue pour ses institutions de parenté matrilinéaire, dans le district du Kuttanad au nord du Travancore. Les familles indivises de frères et sœurs résidaient avec leur mère dans de Grandes Maisons construites en bois sur les berges ou sur des îles au milieu des rivières et lagons qu’on appelle les backwaters, et les maris visitaient leurs épouses la nuit en se déplaçant souven…

  • Penser par cas

    Open AccessJean-Philippe Antoine, Serge Boarini et al.BOOKPenser par cas2005

    Qu’est-ce que penser par cas ? Comment raisonne-t-on à partir de la description de configurations singulières et dans quelle mesure peut‐on prétendre généraliser à partir d’elles ? Le problème n’est pas nouveau. Les casuistiques morales, religieuses, juridiques, la démarche clinique associée à la tradition médicale en sont autant d’exemples attestés dans le long terme. De façons diverses, ces formes anciennes illustrent une voie qui diffère à la …

  • Images du corps dans le monde hindou

    Open AccessMichel Angot, France Bhattacharya et al.BOOKImages du corps dans le monde…2003

    Comment se représente-t-on le corps dans le monde hindou ? Comment y est-il pensé et décrit ? Alors même que des recherches anthropologiques sur la société indienne l’ont placé au fondement des rapports sociaux entre castes, ou à la base des conceptions sur l’impureté, le corps n’avait jusqu’ici guère été étudié en lui-même. Aussi ce livre s’attache-t-il à restituer la multiplicité et la complexité de ses représentations, depuis la période védiqu…

  • Lévi-Strauss et l'illusion des explorateurs

    Francis ZimmermannBOOKArchives de Philosophie2003

    Este artigo examina a representação dos "exploradores" e das "descobertas" geográficas na obra de Claude Lévi-Strauss, argumentando que o antropólogo perpetuou uma ilusão romântica em torno dessas figuras. Zimmermann analisa como Lévi-Strauss, ao construir sua teoria antropológica, se apoiou em narrativas de exploradores que, segundo o autor, muitas vezes encobriam a violência colonial e a destruição das culturas nativas. O artigo questiona a val…

  • L'inhumanité de la bioéthique dans l'espace public français

    Francis ZimmermannARTICLEAnthropologie et Sociétés2003

    L'inhumanité de la bioéthique dans l'espace public français La bioéthique est née en France au tournant des années quatre-vingt. Les Avis du Comité Consultatif National d'Éthique publiés à partir de 1984 et les lois dites de bioéthique promulguées en 1994 en constituent le noyau théorique. Un anthropologue s'efforce dans cet article de repérer les différentes orientations intellectuelles qui se croisent dans ce corpus de textes normatifs, d'en ca…

  • Comparaison, dialogue, récit. Romanciers malayalam sur la parenté matrilinéaire

    Open AccessFrancis ZimmermannARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales2002

    On pourrait croire que tout a été dit sur les Nayar du Kerala qui présentent, dans les études comparatives sur les systèmes de parenté, l’exemple canonique d’une société dont la vie économique, sociale et politique était fondée sur la filiation matrilinéaire. Les règles de mariage et d’héritage qui les gouvernaient, à l’issue d’une longue période de décadence, furent abolies il y a trente ans. Mais les romanciers d’aujourd’hui cultivent la mémoir…

  • L’anthropologue et le contemporain

    Marc Abélès, Michel Agier et al.