Corinna Kleinert

// CURRENT POSITIONS
 

• Chairholder, Professorship of Sociology with focus on Longitudinal Education Research
• Deputy Director at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
• Faculty Member of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Corinna Kleinert is interested in supervising doctoral students who analyse social inequalities, particularly gender inequalities, in education and the labour market, and who study changes in these areas over the life-course, e.g. transitions from school to work or career mobility.

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// RESEARCH

Her research interests comprise social and gender inequalities in education and employment, school-to-work transitions, vocational education and training, and questions related to intra-generational mobility.

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Effects of the Corona pandemic on job-related learning in adult life
• In the NEPS: Social Inequality and Educational Decisions Across the Life Course

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ghirardi, G., Baier, T., Kleinert, C., & Triventi, M. (2023). Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany. European Sociological Review, 39(5), 692–707. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac048

Schindler, S., Bar-Haim, E., Barone, C., Birkelund, J. F., Boliver, V., Capsada-Munsech, Q., Erola, J., Facchini, M., Feniger, Y., Heiskala, L., Herbaut, E., Ichou, M., Karlson, K. B., Kleinert, C., Reimer, D., Traini, C., Triventi, M., & Vallet, L.-A. (2023). Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231151390

Ghirardi, G., Baier, T., Kleinert, C., & Triventi, M. (2022). Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany. European Sociological Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac048

Schels, B., Kleinert, C., Fischer-Browne, M., & Ahrens, L. (2022). Compromises between Occupational Aspirations and VET Occupations - a Contribution to the Reproduction of Social Inequalities? Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 51(2), 154–173. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2022-0011

Steinberg, H. S., & Kleinert, C. (2022). Timing of early childcare take‐up in Germany: An application of rational choice theory. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(3), 840–859. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12825

B?chmann, A.-C., Gatermann, D., Kleinert, C., & Leuze, K. (2022). Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–2010. Social Science Research, 104, 102685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102685

Kleinert, C., Zoch, G., Vicari, B., & Ehlert, M. (2021). Work-related online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung, 44(3), 197-214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40955-021-00192-5

Traini, C., Kleinert, C., & Bittmann, F. (2021). How does exposure to a different school track influence learning progress? Explaining scissor effects by track in Germany. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100625  

Hondralis, I., & Kleinert, C. (2021). Do children influence their mothers’ decisions? Early child development and maternal employment entries after birth. Advances in Life Course Research, 47, 100378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100378        

Kleinert, C. & Schels, B. (2020). Zurück zur Norm? Kompromissbildung zwischen geschlechtstypischen und -untypischen Berufsaspirationen, Bewerbungs- und Ausbildungsberufen. K?lner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, (72), 229–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-020-00668-1

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Professor Kleinert’s website at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).