Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 195392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Peter Blossfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Blossfeld |
| SIGNATURE | BLOSSFELD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9298-139X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 15 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Socio-economic change and intergenerational class mobility: A dynamic analysis of the experiences of West Germans born between 1929 and 1971
Augmenting the conceptual and methodological approaches that are common in current mobility research, we are proposing a dynamic approach to the analysis of intergenerational mobility . A multilevel model is developed that embeds differences and changes in individual resources, such as respondents’ class origin, educational attainment, and labor force experience, in the time-varying macro context of a changing cohort size, socio-economic moderniz…
Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories: Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (Neps)
This OA book presents results of an interdisciplinary research program utilizing data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).
Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories: Analyzing Data of the National Educational Panel Study
Monetäre und nicht monetäre Erträge von Weiterbildung: Monetary and non-monetary effects of adult education and training
Advantage 'Finds Its Way: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education
This article discusses key findings from eduLIFE, a cross-national project that examined the emergence of social inequalities in 17 countries characterized by different models of secondary education. First, we build upon existing international studies and propose a broader classification of forms of differentiation in secondary education. Second, we elaborate a fourfold typology of secondary education systems. Third, we provide a longitudinal and…
The New Role Of Women
Sampling Designs of the National Educational Panel Study: Setup and Panel Development
Measuring Motivational Concepts and Personality Aspects in the National Educational Panel Study
Social Inequality and Educational Decisions in the Life Course
The National Educational Panel Study: Need, Main Features, and Research Potential
Education as a Lifelong Process
Rational Choice Theory and Large-Scale Data Analysis
Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLife Project
Linking the macro to the micro: A multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries
Recent research into educational inequalities has shown the importance of decomposing social origins into parental class, status and education, representing economic, socio-cultural and educational family resources, respectively. But we know little about how inequalities in educational attainment at the micro-level map onto institutional characteristics of educational systems at the macro-level, if we treat social origins in a multidimensional wa…
From parents to children: The impact of mothers’ and fathers’ educational attainments on those of their sons and daughters in West Germany
Empirical studies have repeatedly shown that in Germany educational success still strongly depends on the social origin of individuals. Using the National Educational Panel Study, we analyse the effects of fathers’ and mothers’ education levels on their sons’ and daughters’ educational attainments across three successive birth cohorts in West Germany. We calculate the predicted probabilities of reaching low, medium or high education levels on the…
Women’s disadvantage in holding supervisory positions. Variations among European countries and the role of horizontal gender segregation
Using the Labour Force Survey 2013, this paper examines gender differences in holding supervisory positions in 26 European countries and relates these differences to horizontal gender segregation, i.e. women and men working in different jobs. First, we confirm the findings of previous studies that women are still disadvantaged in holding supervisory positions in almost all countries. Second, by examining how women’s disadvantage varies when worki…
Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys
Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison
Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys: The Example of the National Educational Panel Study
Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys: The Example of the National Educational Panel Study
Event History Analysis: Applications
Life Course and Event History Analysis
Gender and job-related non-formal training: A comparison of 20 countries
This article analyses gender differences in the participation in various types of job-related non-formal training in 20 societies and examines the relationship of these gender differences with country-specific institutional settings such as employment protection, family policies and the gender culture. Using data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and applying two-step multilevel regression analyses,…
Adult learning and social inequalities: Processes of equalisation or cumulative disadvantage
Horizontal and Vertical Gender Segregation in Russia-Changes upon Labour Market Entry before and after the Collapse of the Soviet Regime
Using retrospective data from the Russian Education and Employment Survey, we examine labour market entry in Russia in terms of changes in horizontal gender segregation and vertical gender inequalities before and after the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. Our results provide evidence for horizontal gender segregation across branches of the economy among labour market entrants in Russia, which have been growing since 1991. Moreover, horizont…
Human Capital Investments or Norms of Role Transition? How Women's Schooling and Career Affect the Process of Family Formation
Proponents of the "new home economics" hypothesize that women's growing economic independence largely accounts for the rise in delayed marriage and motherhood in industrialized societies. This article assesses this hypothesis for the Federal Republic of Gernamy by estimating the dynamic effects of women's educational and career investments on the timing of family events. Eventhistory analysis shows that the delaying effect on the timing of the fi…
Educational Assortative Marriage in Comparative Perspective
Most studies of assortative marriage still rely on cross-sectional data and apply log-linear modeling of the contingency table of wives' and husbands' educational levels. However, these macro studies have provided quite ambiguous findings and interpretations. In comparison, the life course approach analyzes single individuals over the life course and explicitly recognizes the dynamic nature of partner decisions and the importance of educational r…
What determines change in the division of housework over the course of marriage
This article analyses the changing division of housework between husbands and wives in western Germany. Using representative longitudinal data from the Bamberg Panel Study of Married Couples, the authors analyse how the division of household labour changes over the first 14 years of marriage. In particular, they assess when and under what conditions the husband's share of traditionally 'female' housework increases or decreases. They consider shif…
Education as a lifelong process: The German National Educational Panel Study (Neps)
Dynamics of Women's Employment Patterns over the Family Life Course: A Comparison of the United States and Germany
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, , Dynamics of Women's Employment Patterns over the Family Life Course: A Comparison of the United States and Germany, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 133-146
The Diffusion of Cohabitation among Young Women in West Germany, East Germany and Italy
National patterns of income and wealth inequality
The aim of this article is to show that wealth must be treated as a distinct dimension of social stratification alongside income. In a first step, we explain why social stratification researchers have largely overlooked wealth in the past and present a detailed definition of wealth by differentiating it from income. In the empirical part of the article, we analyze the distribution of wealth across 18 countries, and we describe and compare nationa…
Labor market segmentation in the Federal Republic of Germany: An Empirical Study of Segmentation Theories From a Life Course Perspective
The purpose of this article is to assess, from a life course perspective, the importance of labor market segmentation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Using event history data, we show the interaction of individual characteristics and institutional structures across employment histories. The empirical analysis provides evidence that labor market segmentation structures occupational careers to a large extent. During the life course the structur…
Career opportunities in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Life-Course, Cohort, and Period Effects
In this article it is proposed to introduce the changing labor market structure into intra-generational mobility research in order to treat adequately the time-dependent nature of the attainment process. Using a large life-history data-set on the full career trajectories of German males from the birth cohorts 1929–31, 1939–41, and 1949–51 up to age at interview, together with several time-series indicating the development of the social and econom…
Educational Expansion and Changes in Women's Entry into Marriage and Motherhood in the Federal Republic of Germany
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Ursula Jaenichen, Educational Expansion and Changes in Women's Entry into Marriage and Motherhood in the Federal Republic of Germany, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 302-315
Was erklärt die Traditionalisierungsprozesse häuslicher Arbeitsteilung im Eheverlauf: Soziale Normen oder ökonomische Ressourcen? / What Explains the Process of Traditionalization in the Division of H…
Der Beitrag analysiert die Dynamik von Traditionalisierungsprozessen der häuslichen Arbeitsteilung im Eheverlauf westdeutscher Paare. Die Studie weist nach, dass vor allem Traditionalisierungsprozesse die Entwicklungsrichtung der häuslichen Arbeitsteilung dominieren. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, ob und inwieweit normenorientierte soziologische und ressourcenorientierte ökonomische Theorien geeignet sind, zu erklären, weshalb Männer in der Regel ih…
Labor-Market Entry and the Sexual Segregation of Careers in the Federal Republic of Germany
This article traces the emergence of sex-specific structures over the life course, compares these patterns across cohorts, and discovers the importance of entry into the labor market for the subsequent occupational careers of men and women. New life-history data from the Federal Republic of Germany show that there is an impressive equalization of educational opportunities between men and women across cohorts. Despite this covergence in educationa…
Wie verändert sich die häusliche arbeitsteilung im eheverlauf: Eine Längsschnittstudie der ersten 14 Ehejahre in Westdeutschland
Gender and job-related non-formal training: A comparison of 20 countries
This article analyses gender differences in the participation in various types of job-related non-formal training in 20 societies and examines the relationship of these gender differences with country-specific institutional settings such as employment protection, family policies and the gender culture. Using data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and applying two-step multilevel regression analyses,…
Pflegebedürftige Personen im Haushalt und das Erwerbsverhalten verheirateter Frauen / Home Care of the Elderly and the Employment Behavior of Married Women
Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Auswirkungen von pflegebedürftigen Personen im Haushalt auf das Erwerbsverhalten verheirateter Frauen im Alter von 40 bis 65 Jahren untersucht. Als Datengrundlage dient das Sozio-oekonomische Panel. Die empirischen Ergebnisse der Längsschnittanalyse unterstützen die These, dass verheiratete Frauen bei Anwesenheit eines Pflegefalls im Haushalt eine erhöhte Neigung zur Aufgabe ihrer Erwerbstätigkeit haben. Damit z…
Between Equalization and Marginalization: Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America
Levels of part-time work vary enormously across industrial society, from 66 per cent among women in the Netherlands to just 8 per cent among women in Greece. Part-time work was almost unknown in Eastern Europe, but is now growing rapidly in the same sectors of industry as in Western Europe and the USA. Between Equalization and Marginalization provides a comparative analysis of the development of part-time work in Europe and the USA from 1950 onwa…
Adult learning and social inequalities: Processes of equalisation or cumulative disadvantage
Sex and Sector Differences in the Dynamics of Wage Growth in the Federal Republic of Germany
Research on wage differentials for men and women and for labor market sectors has relied largely on cross-sectional analysis. Using data on three cohorts of West German men and women, we bring a dynamic perspective to these issues by analyzing wage changes for three aspects of work histories: (1) wage rate at time offirst entry into the labor market, (2) wage changes when workers change jobs, and (3) wage growth within jobs. Education affects fir…
Changes in Educational Careers in the Federal Republic of Germany
The main thesis of this article is that the educational system of the Federal Republic of Germany has led to and less vulnerable phases in the educational careers of various birth cohorts, who are affected differently by the same historical developments. These phases include the brief transition to secondary schools within the general educational system, from the general educational system to the vocational training system, or within different ty…
Advantage 'Finds Its Way: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education
This article discusses key findings from eduLIFE, a cross-national project that examined the emergence of social inequalities in 17 countries characterized by different models of secondary education. First, we build upon existing international studies and propose a broader classification of forms of differentiation in secondary education. Second, we elaborate a fourfold typology of secondary education systems. Third, we provide a longitudinal and…
Increasing Resource Inequality among Families in Modern Societies: The Mechanisms of Growing Educational Homogamy, Changes in the Division of Work in the Family and the Decline of the Male Breadwinner…
Many social inequality studies in modern societies take an individualistic approach. They analyse men and women as individuals and neglect marriage patterns and familial relationships. This often implies that men and women are all alike, that there are no important differences within households, and that employment chances and risks within the family are based on gender-free considerations. This article draws on the empirical results of several i…
Linking the macro to the micro: A multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries
Recent research into educational inequalities has shown the importance of decomposing social origins into parental class, status and education, representing economic, socio-cultural and educational family resources, respectively. But we know little about how inequalities in educational attainment at the micro-level map onto institutional characteristics of educational systems at the macro-level, if we treat social origins in a multidimensional wa…
Entry into the Labor Market and Occupational Career in the Federal Republic: A Comparison with American Studies
Women’s disadvantage in holding supervisory positions. Variations among European countries and the role of horizontal gender segregation
Using the Labour Force Survey 2013, this paper examines gender differences in holding supervisory positions in 26 European countries and relates these differences to horizontal gender segregation, i.e. women and men working in different jobs. First, we confirm the findings of previous studies that women are still disadvantaged in holding supervisory positions in almost all countries. Second, by examining how women’s disadvantage varies when worki…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Career opportunities in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Life-Course, Cohort, and Period Effects
In this article it is proposed to introduce the changing labor market structure into intra-generational mobility research in order to treat adequately the time-dependent nature of the attainment process. Using a large life-history data-set on the full career trajectories of German males from the birth cohorts 1929–31, 1939–41, and 1949–51 up to age at interview, together with several time-series indicating the development of the social and econom…
Entry into the Labor Market and Occupational Career in the Federal Republic: A Comparison with American Studies
Labor-Market Entry and the Sexual Segregation of Careers in the Federal Republic of Germany
This article traces the emergence of sex-specific structures over the life course, compares these patterns across cohorts, and discovers the importance of entry into the labor market for the subsequent occupational careers of men and women. New life-history data from the Federal Republic of Germany show that there is an impressive equalization of educational opportunities between men and women across cohorts. Despite this covergence in educationa…
Erwerbsverlauf und die Entwicklung der Arbeitseinkommen bei Männern: Eine Längsschnittanalyse unter Verwendung einer stochastischen Differentialgleichung
In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Grundlage von Längsschnittdaten die Verdienstentwicklung in drei Phasen des Erwerbsverlaufs untersucht: (1) in der Phase des Berufseintritts, (2) in den Phasen des Arbeitsplatzwechsels und (3) in den Phasen, in denen die Arbeitskräfte auf ein und demselben Arbeitsplatz verbleiben. In allen drei Phasen wurden angebotsbezogene, nachfrageorientierte und auf die Gesamtwirtschaft bezogene Erklärungsmodelle getestet. Beim…
Labor market segmentation in the Federal Republic of Germany: An Empirical Study of Segmentation Theories From a Life Course Perspective
The purpose of this article is to assess, from a life course perspective, the importance of labor market segmentation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Using event history data, we show the interaction of individual characteristics and institutional structures across employment histories. The empirical analysis provides evidence that labor market segmentation structures occupational careers to a large extent. During the life course the structur…
Event history analysis: Statistical Theory and Application in the Social Sciences
Using Cox Models to Study Multiepisode Processes
This article shows how Cox models can be used to study multiepisode-multistate processes as well as which computer programs can be used to estimate semiparametric models with multispell data. The application of a multiepisode Cox model is demonstrated using data on career trajectories of German males from the German Life History study
Event History Analysis: Statistical Theory and Application in the Social Sciences
Contents: Foreword. Aim and Structure of the Book. Domains and Rationale for the Application of Event History Analysis. The Statistical Theory of Event History Analysis. Data Organization and Descriptive Methods. Semi-Parametric Regression Models: The Cox Proportional Hazards Model. Parametric Regression Models. Appendices: List of Variable Names Used in Examples. Listing of the FORTRAN Program PR3FUN Written by Trond Petersen. Listing of the FOR…
Sex and Sector Differences in the Dynamics of Wage Growth in the Federal Republic of Germany
Research on wage differentials for men and women and for labor market sectors has relied largely on cross-sectional analysis. Using data on three cohorts of West German men and women, we bring a dynamic perspective to these issues by analyzing wage changes for three aspects of work histories: (1) wage rate at time offirst entry into the labor market, (2) wage changes when workers change jobs, and (3) wage growth within jobs. Education affects fir…
Changes in Educational Careers in the Federal Republic of Germany
The main thesis of this article is that the educational system of the Federal Republic of Germany has led to and less vulnerable phases in the educational careers of various birth cohorts, who are affected differently by the same historical developments. These phases include the brief transition to secondary schools within the general educational system, from the general educational system to the vocational training system, or within different ty…
Human Capital Investments or Norms of Role Transition? How Women's Schooling and Career Affect the Process of Family Formation
Proponents of the "new home economics" hypothesize that women's growing economic independence largely accounts for the rise in delayed marriage and motherhood in industrialized societies. This article assesses this hypothesis for the Federal Republic of Gernamy by estimating the dynamic effects of women's educational and career investments on the timing of family events. Eventhistory analysis shows that the delaying effect on the timing of the fi…
Educational Expansion and Changes in Women's Entry into Marriage and Motherhood in the Federal Republic of Germany
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Ursula Jaenichen, Educational Expansion and Changes in Women's Entry into Marriage and Motherhood in the Federal Republic of Germany, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 302-315
Persistent inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries
The New Role of Women: Family Formation in Modern Societies
Berufsstruktureller Wandel Und Soziale Ungleichheit
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Frage, ob sich in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Konsequenz des langfristigen berufsstrukturellen Wandels ein „neues“Dienstleistungsproletariat herausbildet. Auf der Grundlage der Lebensverlaufstudie und mit Hilfe von Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels wird gezeigt, daß das Serviceproletariat in Deutschland auf dem Weg in die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft nicht zunehmend wichtiger wird. Einfache Dienste haben in D…
Women’s Part-Time Employment and the Family Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison
This chapter presents the culmination of our investigation of the rise in women’s (part-time) employment in modern societies. It summarizes the major findings of the country reports from a cross-national comparative perspective, and it tries to illuminate the time-related interplay of the most important mechanisms that have been working in different countries and have generated the great variety of part-time work in modern societies. It also atte…
Between Equalization and Marginalization: Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America
Levels of part-time work vary enormously across industrial society, from 66 per cent among women in the Netherlands to just 8 per cent among women in Greece. Part-time work was almost unknown in Eastern Europe, but is now growing rapidly in the same sectors of industry as in Western Europe and the USA. Between Equalization and Marginalization provides a comparative analysis of the development of part-time work in Europe and the USA from 1950 onwa…
Part-Time Work in West Germany
In this chapter, we study the long-term development of women’s employ¬ ment and its relationship to the family cycle in Germany. We describe the changes from 1925 until the end of the Second World War for Germany as a whole and then concentrate on changes in West Germany specifically. Changes in women’s employment in East Germany after the Second World War are not analysed here because they follow broadly the same patterns and processes that are …
Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education
This book explores the factors which govern the range of educational decisions confronting individuals between compulsory school education and university. The data on which it draws come from two surveys conducted in north-west Italy, one of unemployed young people and one of high-school pupils. The author is in effect testing the two fundamental and opposed paradigms of explanation which are generally applied in the sociology of education; one w…
Die Auswirkungen der Doppelbelastung durch Familie und Beruf auf das Krankheitsrisiko von Frauen
Der Aufsatz untersucht den Einfluß der Doppelbelastung durch Familie und Berufstätigkeit auf das Krankheitsrisiko von Frauen. Auf der Grundlage einer Längsschnittanalyse wird zunächst gezeigt, daß eine Erwerbstätigkeit grundsätzlich positive Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit von Frauen hat. Darüber hinaus wirkt sich auch die Lebensform der Ehe positiv auf die Gesundheit von Frauen aus. Allerdings vermindert die gleichzeitige Doppelbelastung durch k…
Les trajectoires professionnelles des couples mariés en Allemagne: Une étude longitudinale de long terme de carrières des époux en Allemagne de l'Ouest
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, , , Les trajectoires professionnelles des couples mariés en Allemagne: Une étude longitudinale de long terme de carrières des époux en Allemagne de l'Ouest, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1998), pp. 305-351
Dynamics of Women's Employment Patterns over the Family Life Course: A Comparison of the United States and Germany
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, , Dynamics of Women's Employment Patterns over the Family Life Course: A Comparison of the United States and Germany, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 133-146
Careers of Couples in Contemporary Society: From Male Breadwinner to Dual-Earner Families
Careers of Couples in Contemporary Societies: From Male Breadwinner to Dual Earner Families
This is the first systematic international comparative study of the transformation of couples careers in modern societies. The countries included are Germany, the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and China. Using longitudinal data, this book explores what has and what has not changed for couples in various countries due to women’s greater involvement in pai…
Careers of couples in contemporary societies: From Male Breadwinner to Dual-Earner Families
Political science (59 works) · Sociology (43 works) · Economics (39 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (33 works) · Psychology (31 works) · Demographic economics (28 works) · Geography (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 works) · Humanities (16 works)