Dr. Katja Möhring • [email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Katja Hanna Helene Möhring
Research Interests
Life course sociology with focus on employment and retirement, social stratification, welfare state
and social policy, statistical methods with focus on longitudinal and multilevel analyses
Education
11/2013
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Cologne, Faculty of Management,
Economics and Social Sciences
Grade: summa cum laude
Topic of the cumulative thesis: Life course and socio-economic situation in
later life: The impact of institutions and reforms of the welfare state.
Empirical studies from a multi-level perspective.
10/2009-09/2012
Ph.D. studies, Research Training Group SOCLIFE, University of Cologne
10/2004-09/2009
Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Diploma in Social Sciences (eq. M.A.), Grade: 1.3
Thesis topic: Participation in private pension plans and perception of
pension income security in Germany
02/2004-07/2004
Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland)
10/2001-11/2003
Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau
Vordiplom in Social Sciences (eq. B.A.), Grade: 1.5
Professional Experience
Since 08/2014
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Chair of Prof. Sonja Drobnič,
Institute for Sociology, University of Bremen
08/2013-07/2014
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Research,
University of Bremen
01-08/2013
Visiting researcher, Research Unit German Socio-Economic Panel Study
(GSOEP) at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
04/2012-04/2013
Lecturer at Department of Social Politics, University of Cologne
03-04/2012
Visiting researcher, Department of Sociology at Tilburg University
(Netherlands)
06/2011
Visiting researcher, Research Unit German Socio-Economic Panel Study
(GSOEP) at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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10/2009-03/2012
Research assistant of Prof. Ingo Rohlfing, Comparative Social Research at
Cologne Graduate School, University of Cologne
05/2006-09/2009
Student Research Assistant, Research Unit German Socio-Economic Panel
Study (GSOEP) at German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
07/2009
Short-term contract at University of Neubrandenburg in a project on
poverty and health in North-Eastern Germany
02/2005-04/2006
Student Research Assistant, Research Unit Labour Market Policy and
Employment at Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
08/2004-12/2004
Short-term contract and
11/2003-02/2004
Internship at Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia,
Forschungsdatenzentrum der Länder
11/2002-09/2003
Student Research Assistant and Tutor for "Mathematics for Social
Scientists", Institute of Economics, University of Koblenz-Landau
Grants and Fellowships
08/2013
DAAD scholarship for the "108th Meeting of the American Sociological
Association", New York, USA, 10-13 August 2013 (presentation in the
session of the section "Aging and Life Course")
10/2012-07/2013
Completion scholarship of the "Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung"
(Research network old age security)
10/2009-09/2012
Doctoral scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
02/2004-07/2004
ERASMUS scholarship of the European Union
Participation in Research Projects
Since 11/2014
Supervision of the alumni survey of the former Collaborative Research
Center 597 employees, focus on career development and work-life balance
08/2013-08/2014
Project "Welfare State Transformation in Small Open Economies: Social
Effects and Political Reactions" in the Collaborative Research Center 597
"Transformations of the State", University of Bremen
05/2008-09/2009
Project on the restructuring of the GSOEP database ("SOEPlong")
at DIW Berlin
08/2007-03/2008
Project on financial disparities and employment in old age in East and West
Germany compared (funded by FNA, Deutsche Rentenversicherung)
at DIW Berlin
02/2005-04/2006
Project "Qualification Needs in OECD Countries - Identification, Analysis and
Implementation" (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research) at WZB
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Teaching
Summer 2015
Seminar "Logic and methods of comparative analysis using international
survey data"
Tutorial "Theorie und Empirie sozialstrukturellen Wandels"
(both at University of Bremen)
Winter 2014/15
Seminar "Übergänge im Lebenslauf: Aktuelle Studien und Befunde der
Lebenslaufsoziologie"
Tutorial "Einführung in die Sozialstruktur Deutschlands"
(both at University of Bremen)
Summer 2014
Seminar "Comparative research using quantitative data: Methodology,
methods, and data sources" (University of Bremen)
11/2013
Workshop "(Multilevel) Regression Techniques for Comparative Analyses" at
the University of Tartu (Estonia), Institute of Sociology and Social Policy
Winter 2013/14
Seminar "The German welfare state in international comparison" (University
of Bremen)
Winter 2012/13
Lecture "Sozialpolitik I", together with Prof. Schulz-Nieswandt (University of
Cologne)
Summer 2012
Lecture "Sozialstaat und Sozialversicherung", together with Michael Sauer
Tutorial for the lecture "Sozialpolitik I" (both at University of Cologne)
Language and Professional Skills
Computer Skills
Statistical software: STATA (programming), R, SPSS
Office: LaTeX, MS Office, Citavi, EndNote, Zotero
Operating systems: Windows and Unix
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
Polish (basic)
Bremen, March 2015
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List of Publications and Conference Presentations
Publications
Under review and work in progress
Parents’ influence or welfare state impact? Women’s careers in Europe between family background
and institutional incentives
Standardized Determination? The Relationship of Educational Systems and Individual Employment
Histories in Europe, together with Judith Offerhaus
Cross-level interaction effects in multilevel analyses using random and fixed effects regression
models. Simulation study and examples
Multilevel Tools - A Stata Module for Estimation and Robustness of Multilevel Models, version 2.0,
together with A. Schmidt-Catran
Forthcoming
Life Course Regimes in Europe: Individual Employment Histories in Comparative and Historical
Perspective, in: Journal of European Social Policy.
2015
Cumulative (dis)advantage? The impact of labour market policies on late career employment from a
life course perspective, together with Jenny Bennett, in: Journal of Social Policy, Volume 44, Issue
2, 2015, pp 213–233.
Employment histories and pension incomes in Europe: A multilevel analysis of the role of institutional
factors, in: European Societies, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp 3–26.
2014
Der Einfluss von Kindererziehungszeiten und Mütterrenten auf das Alterseinkommen von Müttern in
Europa (The impact of child care periods and pension care entitlements on mothers’ old age
income in Europe), in: Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, 83(2).
Mütterrenten im internationalen Vergleich: Keine Kompensation der geringeren Alterseinkommen
von Müttern (Pension care entitlements in international comparison: No compensation of
mothers’ lower old age incomes). ZeS report, 19(1), 28–32.
2013
Erwerbsminderungsrentner: sinkende Leistungen und wachsende Einkommensunterschiede im Alter
(Reduced Earnings Capacity Pensions: Lower Payouts and Rising Income Disparities in Old Age),
DIW Berlin Weekly Report 24 / 2013, 3-9, together with P. Krause und U. Ehrlich.
Pension system and Life course: Employment biography patterns and income risks in old age in
European welfare states, in: Sustainability and transformation in European Social Policy.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Peter Lang: Bern, 61–82.
Altersarmut in Deutschland und Großbritannien: Die Auswirkungen der Rentenreformen seit Beginn
der 1990er (Old age poverty in Germany and Great Britain: The effects of pension reforms since
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the 1990s), in: C. Vogel & A. Motel-Klingebiel (Ed.), Altern im sozialen Wandel: Die Rückkehr der
Altersarmut? Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 291–311.
2012
The fixed effects approach as an alternative to multilevel analysis for cross-national analyses, WP
16/2012,
GK
SOCLIFE
Working
Paper
Series,
URL:
http://www.soclife.unikoeln.de/fileadmin/wiso_fak/gk_soclife/pdf/Working_papers/KMoehring_2012a_ssrn_the_fixed
_effects.pdf.
Multilevel Tools – an ado-package for Stata, http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/dsug12/06.html, together
with A. Schmidt.
Employment biography and income in later life: the impact of pension systems in European welfare
states, WP 9/2012, GK SOCLIFE Working Paper Series.
2010
Berufliche Übergangssequenzen in den Ruhestand (Occupational transition sequences at retirement
entry), in: Krause/Ostner (Ed.): Leben in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Eine sozialwissenschaftliche
Bilanz der deutschen Einheit 1990-2010, Campus: Frankfurt/New York, together with T. Zähle.
2009
Erwerbsverläufe beim Übergang in den Ruhestand (Employment transition sequences at retirement
entry), in: WSI-Mitteilungen, Vol. 62, No. 11, pp 586–595, together with P. Krause and T. Zähle.
2008
Wohlstandsdisparitäten bei Älteren in Ost- und Westdeutschland (Wealth disparities of the elderly in
Eastern and Western Germany), in: Deutsche Rentenversicherung, No. 1, pp 40–59, together
with P. Krause and T. Zähle.
BIOTWIN – Information on TWINS in the SOEP, in: Frick/Groh-Samberg/Lohmann (eds.) Biography
and Life History Data in the German Socio Economic Panel, pp 81–84, 2008, together with C.
Schmitt.
2005
Räumliche Mobilität und Übergange von Erwerbslosigkeit in Erwerbstätigkeit (Spatial mobility and
transitions from unemployment to employment), in: Statistische Analysen und Studien NRW,
No. 24, pp 13–24, together with S. Zühlke.
2003
Tansanische Mikrounternehmer im Wettbewerb (Tanzanian micro-entrepreneurs in competition), in:
Landauer Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge, Vol. 1, No. 1, together with H.
Egbert.
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Conference Presentations and Organisation
2015: Spring Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28),
Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 28-30 May 2015.
6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Reykjavik, Iceland, 1317 July 2015.
Organisation of the 2nd BIGSSS International Conference on Social Stratification and Social
Policy, at the University of Bremen/Germany, 24-25 September 2015, together with N.
Breznau, M. Hollman, and A. Schenk.
2014: 37. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Trier, 6-10 Oktober 2014,
Veranstaltung “Altern in Krisenzeiten – Neue Analysen zur Lebensqualität im Alter”.
12th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Oslo, Norway, 4-6 September 2014.
International Conference "How do education systems shape educational inequalities?",
Luxembourg, 2-4 July 2014.
VI European Congress of Methodology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23-25 July 2014.
Organisation of the BIGSSS International Conference on Social Stratification and Social Policy,
Bremen/Germany, 12-13 June 2014, together with N. Breznau, A Gugushvili, and N. SchöneckVoß.
2013: Organisation of Stream 4: New perspectives on pensions and retirement at the 11th Annual
ESPAnet Conference, Poznań/Poland, together with D. Hofäcker.
108th Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), New York, USA, 10-13 August
2013, Session of the Section on Aging and Life Course.
2012: IAB Ph.D. Workshop Perspectives on (Un-) Employment, in Nürnberg/Germany, together with
J. Bennett.
10th Annual ESPAnet Conference, University of Edinburgh/UK.
NCoE NordWel Conference Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare State Development,
University of Southern Denmark, in Odense/Denmark.
German Stata Users Group Meeting 2012, in Berlin, together with A. Schmidt.
2011: Conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS), Bielefeld/Germany.
9th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Valencia/Spain, 8-10 September 2011.
German Stata Users Group Meeting Bamberg/Germany, together with A. Simons and P.
Krause.
2010: Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) in Frankfurt a.M./Germany, Session of
the Section Ageing and Society.
XVII World Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in
Gothenburg/Sweden.
9th International GSOEP User Conference in Berlin/Germany.

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