Reinhard Pollak
Biographic Data
| ID | 275602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reinhard Pollak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reinhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollak |
| SIGNATURE | POLLAK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4522-2865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 351 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database for family research. Major substantive fields addressed in the questionnaire include fertility-related attitudes and behaviours, reproductive health, work-family conflict, couples' division of labour, gender roles, intimate relationships, separation and divorce, parenting and intergenerational relations, a…
Gendered wage returns to changes in non-routine job tasks: Evidence from Germany
The labor market exhibits persistent occupational segregation by gender, with women and men performing distinct job tasks within their occupations. Prior research suggests that non-routine job tasks generally lead to higher wages, especially in digitally advancing contexts. However, these findings are largely based on cross-sectional data and neglect gender as a relevant dimension of inequality. We analyze three-wave panel data over nine years fr…
Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This is the Editorial on the Special Issue 'Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA
The Division of Routine and Non-Routine Housework Among Migrant and Native Couples in Germany
Gender inequality in the division of household chores is a persistent issue over time and across country contexts, while differences within and between native and migrant couples remain largely unclear. Relying on the German country case, this study examines the association between partners' migration constellations and the division of housework. We differentiate between natives and first-generation migrants, and within first-generation migrants,…
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of Neet of students from schools for learning disability in Germany
This article demonstrates the disadvantages that students leaving special needs schools ( Förderschule) face in their school-to-work transition in Germany. We analyse whether the institutional label of 'having attended a special needs school' - beyond and above low school attainment - results in scarring effects for students' chances of integration into training and employment after leaving school. We focus on students classified as having learni…
Vocational education, tertiary education, and skill use across career stages
Vocational education enhances smooth transitions into the labour market. However, this initial advantage might vanish over the career and eventually turn into a disadvantage because the skills of vocationally trained workers become outdated faster. So far, research has examined this potential vocational trade-off by assessing labour market outcomes such as employment and income. This study uses a different approach, it directly examines how diffe…
Grasping Digitalization in the Working World
Digitalization and automation have increased substantially in recent years and are reshaping the working world. These fundamental changes alter employee training needs and training programs. They create new employment opportunities, may cause excessive demands or raise fears of job loss. The extent of the societal transitions induced by the ongoing digitalization call for high-quality research data. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-dimensi…
Vocational Education and Training and Transitions into the Labor Market
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Hochschulbildung und soziale Ungleichheit
Lehrbuch der Bildungssoziologie
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten
Mobility, Social
Bildungsdisparitäten nach sozialer Herkunft und Geschlecht im Wandel – Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten
Ähnlich wie in anderen hochentwickelten Gesellschaften hat die Beteiligung an Tertiärbildung in Deutschland über die zweite Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhun-derts beträchtlich zugenommen. Für die Zukunft kann ein weiteres Anwachsen erwartet werden. Wenngleich akademische Abschlüsse damit ihre soziale Exklusi-vität und viel von dem damit verbundenen sozialen Prestige verloren haben, blei-ben sie nach wie vor der bedeutungsvollste Schritt im Bildungs…
Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences
Using data for seven European countries we analyse trends among women in class differences in educational attainment over the first two-thirds of the 20th century. We also compare educational attainment between men and women; we ask whether class differences among the two sexes are similar or not; and whether trends in class differences over birth cohorts have differed between men and women. We find that, as expected, over the 20th century, inequ…
Educational Expansion and Its Consequences for Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in West Germany
For scholars of social stratification one of the key questions regarding educational expansion is whether it diminishes or magnifies existing inequalities in educational attainment. The effect of expansion on educational inequality in tertiary education is of particular importance, as tertiary education has become increasingly relevant for labour market prospects and life course opportunities. Our article studies the access to tertiary education …
Hochschulbildung und soziale Ungleichheit
Hochschulen vermitteln wie andere Bildungseinrichtungen auch explizit und in systematischer Weise Kompetenzen und Qualifikationen und tragen durch die Weitergabe von Orientierungen, Werten und sozialen Verhaltensweisen teils offen, teils implizit („hidden curriculum“) zur Sozialisation der Bevölkerung bei. Damit verbunden ist, was oft als Selektion, Statuszuweisung oder Statusdistribution bezeichnet wird: Die Chancen von Individuen auf unterschie…
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries
In their widely cited study, Shavit and Blossfeld report stability of socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment over much of the 20th century in 11 out of 13 countries. This article outlines reasons why one might expect to find declining class inequalities in educational attainment, and, using a large data set, the authors analyze educational inequality among cohorts born in the first two-thirds of the 20th century in eight European co…
Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries
In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupations play in transferring opportunities from one gen…
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten
Ähnlich wie in anderen hochentwickelten Gesellschaften hat die Beteiligung an Tertiärbildung in Deutschland über die zweite Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts beträchtlich zugenommen. Für die Zukunft kann ein weiteres Anwachsen erwartet werden. Wenngleich akademische Abschlüsse damit ihre soziale Exklusivität und viel von dem damit verbundenen sozialen Prestige verloren haben, bleiben sie nach wie vor der bedeutungsvollste Schritt im Bildungssys…
Educational Fields of Study and the Intergenerational Mobility Process in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the importance of educational field of study, in addition to educational level, for explaining intergenerational class mobility in four countries: France, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. Starting from standard models that only include educational level, we increase the complexity of the educational measure by differentiating between fields of study within levels. Contrary to our expectations, including field of study do…
CHAPTER TEN Germany: Institutional Change and Inequalities of Access in Higher Education
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten?
Ähnlich wie in anderen hoch entwickelten Gesellschaften hat die Beteiligung an Tertiärbildung in Deutschland über die zweite Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts beträchtlich zugenommen. Für die Zukunft kann ein weiteres Anwachsen erwartet werden. Wenngleich akademische Abschlüsse damit ihre soziale Exklusivität und viel von dem damit verbundenen sozialen Prestige verloren haben, bleiben sie nach wie vor der bedeutungsvollste Schritt im Bildungssy…
Social Mobility in West Germany: The Long Arms of History Discovered?
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of intergenerational mobility in West Germany pursuing both a period and a cohort perspective. Concerning the evolution of social fluidity in the period from 1976 to 1999 we find indications of a slight, yet not statistically significant, trend towards more social fluidity. A clear and significant increase of social fluidity, however, is found when analysing the mobility patterns of cohorts bor…
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries
In their widely cited study, Shavit and Blossfeld report stability of socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment over much of the 20th century in 11 out of 13 countries. This article outlines reasons why one might expect to find declining class inequalities in educational attainment, and, using a large data set, the authors analyze educational inequality among cohorts born in the first two-thirds of the 20th century in eight European co…
Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries
In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupations play in transferring opportunities from one gen…
Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences
Using data for seven European countries we analyse trends among women in class differences in educational attainment over the first two-thirds of the 20th century. We also compare educational attainment between men and women; we ask whether class differences among the two sexes are similar or not; and whether trends in class differences over birth cohorts have differed between men and women. We find that, as expected, over the 20th century, inequ…
Educational Expansion and Its Consequences for Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in West Germany
For scholars of social stratification one of the key questions regarding educational expansion is whether it diminishes or magnifies existing inequalities in educational attainment. The effect of expansion on educational inequality in tertiary education is of particular importance, as tertiary education has become increasingly relevant for labour market prospects and life course opportunities. Our article studies the access to tertiary education …
Educational Fields of Study and the Intergenerational Mobility Process in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the importance of educational field of study, in addition to educational level, for explaining intergenerational class mobility in four countries: France, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. Starting from standard models that only include educational level, we increase the complexity of the educational measure by differentiating between fields of study within levels. Contrary to our expectations, including field of study do…
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database for family research. Major substantive fields addressed in the questionnaire include fertility-related attitudes and behaviours, reproductive health, work-family conflict, couples' division of labour, gender roles, intimate relationships, separation and divorce, parenting and intergenerational relations, a…
The Division of Routine and Non-Routine Housework Among Migrant and Native Couples in Germany
Gender inequality in the division of household chores is a persistent issue over time and across country contexts, while differences within and between native and migrant couples remain largely unclear. Relying on the German country case, this study examines the association between partners' migration constellations and the division of housework. We differentiate between natives and first-generation migrants, and within first-generation migrants,…
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of Neet of students from schools for learning disability in Germany
This article demonstrates the disadvantages that students leaving special needs schools ( Förderschule) face in their school-to-work transition in Germany. We analyse whether the institutional label of 'having attended a special needs school' - beyond and above low school attainment - results in scarring effects for students' chances of integration into training and employment after leaving school. We focus on students classified as having learni…
Vocational education, tertiary education, and skill use across career stages
Vocational education enhances smooth transitions into the labour market. However, this initial advantage might vanish over the career and eventually turn into a disadvantage because the skills of vocationally trained workers become outdated faster. So far, research has examined this potential vocational trade-off by assessing labour market outcomes such as employment and income. This study uses a different approach, it directly examines how diffe…
Grasping Digitalization in the Working World
Digitalization and automation have increased substantially in recent years and are reshaping the working world. These fundamental changes alter employee training needs and training programs. They create new employment opportunities, may cause excessive demands or raise fears of job loss. The extent of the societal transitions induced by the ongoing digitalization call for high-quality research data. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-dimensi…
Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This is the Editorial on the Special Issue 'Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA
Lehrbuch der Bildungssoziologie
Social Mobility in West Germany: The Long Arms of History Discovered?
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of intergenerational mobility in West Germany pursuing both a period and a cohort perspective. Concerning the evolution of social fluidity in the period from 1976 to 1999 we find indications of a slight, yet not statistically significant, trend towards more social fluidity. A clear and significant increase of social fluidity, however, is found when analysing the mobility patterns of cohorts bor…
CHAPTER TEN Germany: Institutional Change and Inequalities of Access in Higher Education
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten?
Ähnlich wie in anderen hoch entwickelten Gesellschaften hat die Beteiligung an Tertiärbildung in Deutschland über die zweite Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts beträchtlich zugenommen. Für die Zukunft kann ein weiteres Anwachsen erwartet werden. Wenngleich akademische Abschlüsse damit ihre soziale Exklusivität und viel von dem damit verbundenen sozialen Prestige verloren haben, bleiben sie nach wie vor der bedeutungsvollste Schritt im Bildungssy…
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten
Ähnlich wie in anderen hochentwickelten Gesellschaften hat die Beteiligung an Tertiärbildung in Deutschland über die zweite Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts beträchtlich zugenommen. Für die Zukunft kann ein weiteres Anwachsen erwartet werden. Wenngleich akademische Abschlüsse damit ihre soziale Exklusivität und viel von dem damit verbundenen sozialen Prestige verloren haben, bleiben sie nach wie vor der bedeutungsvollste Schritt im Bildungssys…
Educational Fields of Study and the Intergenerational Mobility Process in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the importance of educational field of study, in addition to educational level, for explaining intergenerational class mobility in four countries: France, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. Starting from standard models that only include educational level, we increase the complexity of the educational measure by differentiating between fields of study within levels. Contrary to our expectations, including field of study do…
Hochschulbildung und soziale Ungleichheit
Hochschulen vermitteln wie andere Bildungseinrichtungen auch explizit und in systematischer Weise Kompetenzen und Qualifikationen und tragen durch die Weitergabe von Orientierungen, Werten und sozialen Verhaltensweisen teils offen, teils implizit („hidden curriculum“) zur Sozialisation der Bevölkerung bei. Damit verbunden ist, was oft als Selektion, Statuszuweisung oder Statusdistribution bezeichnet wird: Die Chancen von Individuen auf unterschie…
Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries
In their widely cited study, Shavit and Blossfeld report stability of socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment over much of the 20th century in 11 out of 13 countries. This article outlines reasons why one might expect to find declining class inequalities in educational attainment, and, using a large data set, the authors analyze educational inequality among cohorts born in the first two-thirds of the 20th century in eight European co…
Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries
In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupations play in transferring opportunities from one gen…
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten
Ähnlich wie in anderen hochentwickelten Gesellschaften hat die Beteiligung an Tertiärbildung in Deutschland über die zweite Hälfte des vergangenen Jahrhun-derts beträchtlich zugenommen. Für die Zukunft kann ein weiteres Anwachsen erwartet werden. Wenngleich akademische Abschlüsse damit ihre soziale Exklusi-vität und viel von dem damit verbundenen sozialen Prestige verloren haben, blei-ben sie nach wie vor der bedeutungsvollste Schritt im Bildungs…
Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences
Using data for seven European countries we analyse trends among women in class differences in educational attainment over the first two-thirds of the 20th century. We also compare educational attainment between men and women; we ask whether class differences among the two sexes are similar or not; and whether trends in class differences over birth cohorts have differed between men and women. We find that, as expected, over the 20th century, inequ…
Educational Expansion and Its Consequences for Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in West Germany
For scholars of social stratification one of the key questions regarding educational expansion is whether it diminishes or magnifies existing inequalities in educational attainment. The effect of expansion on educational inequality in tertiary education is of particular importance, as tertiary education has become increasingly relevant for labour market prospects and life course opportunities. Our article studies the access to tertiary education …
Bildungsdisparitäten nach sozialer Herkunft und Geschlecht im Wandel – Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich
Mobility, Social
Weshalb gibt es so wenige Arbeiterkinder in Deutschlands Universitäten
Hochschulbildung und soziale Ungleichheit
Lehrbuch der Bildungssoziologie
Vocational Education and Training and Transitions into the Labor Market
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Grasping Digitalization in the Working World
Digitalization and automation have increased substantially in recent years and are reshaping the working world. These fundamental changes alter employee training needs and training programs. They create new employment opportunities, may cause excessive demands or raise fears of job loss. The extent of the societal transitions induced by the ongoing digitalization call for high-quality research data. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-dimensi…
Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This is the Editorial on the Special Issue 'Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA
The Division of Routine and Non-Routine Housework Among Migrant and Native Couples in Germany
Gender inequality in the division of household chores is a persistent issue over time and across country contexts, while differences within and between native and migrant couples remain largely unclear. Relying on the German country case, this study examines the association between partners' migration constellations and the division of housework. We differentiate between natives and first-generation migrants, and within first-generation migrants,…
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of Neet of students from schools for learning disability in Germany
This article demonstrates the disadvantages that students leaving special needs schools ( Förderschule) face in their school-to-work transition in Germany. We analyse whether the institutional label of 'having attended a special needs school' - beyond and above low school attainment - results in scarring effects for students' chances of integration into training and employment after leaving school. We focus on students classified as having learni…
Vocational education, tertiary education, and skill use across career stages
Vocational education enhances smooth transitions into the labour market. However, this initial advantage might vanish over the career and eventually turn into a disadvantage because the skills of vocationally trained workers become outdated faster. So far, research has examined this potential vocational trade-off by assessing labour market outcomes such as employment and income. This study uses a different approach, it directly examines how diffe…
Gendered wage returns to changes in non-routine job tasks: Evidence from Germany
The labor market exhibits persistent occupational segregation by gender, with women and men performing distinct job tasks within their occupations. Prior research suggests that non-routine job tasks generally lead to higher wages, especially in digitally advancing contexts. However, these findings are largely based on cross-sectional data and neglect gender as a relevant dimension of inequality. We analyze three-wave panel data over nine years fr…
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database for family research. Major substantive fields addressed in the questionnaire include fertility-related attitudes and behaviours, reproductive health, work-family conflict, couples' division of labour, gender roles, intimate relationships, separation and divorce, parenting and intergenerational relations, a…
Political science (16 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · German (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works)