Curriculum Vitae

Irena Kogan

Office: Professur für Soziologie, Gesellschaftsvergleich Universität Mannheim A5, Raum 529 68131 Mannheim Telefon (0621) 181-2015/14 Telefax (0621) 181-1016 Email: [email protected]

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PERSONAL INFORMATION Born 1 October 1973 in Nikolayev, Ukraine Israeli citizen

RESEARCH INTERESTS Ethnicity and migration, structural assimilation of immigrants, social stratification and mobility, transition from school-to-work, research methods

EDUCATION University of Mannheim, Mannheim Centre for European Social research, Germany, 2001-2005 Dr. rer. soc. Sociology (Summa cum laude), 2005. Dissertation: Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in the European Union: The Role of Host Countries’ Institutional Context. Committee: Prof. Dr. Walter Müller, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Esser, Prof. Dr. Josef Brüderl Tel Aviv University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Israel, 1997-2000 MA Sociology and Anthropology (Magna cum laude), 2000. Thesis: Labor Market Attainment of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Canada. Committee: Prof. Noah Lewin-Epstein, Prof. Moshe Semyonov Kherson State Pedagogical University, Ukraine, 1990-1995 Diploma, Foreign Languages, English (major) and German (minor) (with distinction), 1995. Graduate paper: Usage of Computer Methods in the Advanced Teaching of Foreign Languages.

OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE Since October 2009

Full Professor of Sociology (W-3), particularly societal comparisons, University of Mannheim

October 2007-September 2009

Full Professor of Sociology (W-3), particularly social structure analysis, University of Bamberg

October 2007-September 2009

External Fellow at Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)

April 2006-September 2007

Senior research fellow, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany

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October 2000-March 2006

Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany Refs.: Prof. Dr. Walter Müller, Prof. Dr. Frank Kalter,

1998-2000

Research assistant and tutor, The Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel Refs: Prof. Noah Lewin-Epstein, Prof. Yossi Shavit

PROJECT PARTICIPATION 2009-2012

“Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)”, funded by Norface [zusammen mit Frank Kalter und Clemens Kroneberg (Universität Mannheim), Anthony Heath (Oxford, UK), Miles Hewstone (Oxford, UK), Jan O. Jonsson (Stockholm, S), Matthijs Kalmijn (Tilburg, NL), Frank van Tubergen (Utrecht, NL)]

2007-2009

“The Economic Integration of Skilled Migrants in Four

Countries”, funded by Population, Migration and Environment (PME) Foundation and the International Metropolis Project [together with Moshe Semyonov (Universität Tel Aviv) et al.] 2006-2009

“Young immigrants in the German and the Israeli educational systems”, funded the German Ministry for Education and Research [together with Frank Kalter, Cornelia Kristen (University of Leipzig) and Yossi Shavit, Noah Lewin-Epstein (Tel Aviv University)]

2006-2009

“Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Transformation Countries”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation [together with Walter Müller (University of Mannheim) et al.]

2006-2008

“Labor market integration: Aussiedler and Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany and Israel“, funded by GIF (German-Israeli Foundation) [together with Yinon Cohen, Yitchak Haberfeld (Tel Aviv University) und Frank Kalter (University of Leipzig)]

2006-2007

“Evaluation of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 1997) for Comparative Research (EDUC)“, Equalsoc Network, funded by EU

2002-2005

“Ethnic minorities education and occupational attainment” [together with Anthony Heath (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) et al.]

2001-2002

“Evaluation and analyses of the LFS 2000 ad hoc module data on school-to-work transitions in Europe”, funded by

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EUROSTAT [together with Walter Müller (MZES und University of Mannheim) et al.]

GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONOURS 2009

Norface, EURO 448.958 für das Projekt „Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)”

2007

Stiftung für Bevölkerung, Migration und Umwelt (BMU), EURO 14.500 für das Projekt „The Economic Integration of Skilled Migrants in Four Countries“

2007

DAAD, advancement training program „Summer Schools abroad 2007“, EURO 24,949 for an organisation of a summer school „Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Europe“ in Varna, Bulgaria

2007

European Training Foundation (ETF), Contract 30532ETF.46481 ‘Transition from Education to Work’ (EURO 12,500) as an international consultant on developing a methodology for school/leaver surveys in the Ukraine

2006

European Training Foundation (ETF), Contract 30057ETF.36091 ‘Transition from Education to Work’ (EURO 12,500) as an international consultant on developing a methodology for school/leaver surveys in Serbia

2006

Volkswagen Foundation, EURO 378,200, Project “Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe”

2006

German Ministry for education and Research, EURO 348,774, Project “Young immigrants in German and Israeli educational System”

2006

Equalsoc Network, EURO 23,850 Project „Evaluation of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 1997) for Comparative Research (EDUC)“

2002-2004

DAAD (Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship for post-graduate studies (EURO 1000 per month)

2000-2001

MZES scholarship for doctoral studies (DM 1400 per month)

May 2000

$1000 Dean’s grant from the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University for high educational achievement

1999-2000

Annual study grant from the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences 4

TEACHING EXPERIENCE WT 2009

Educational systems and labour markets: theory and empirical evidence, University of Mannheim Seminar in BA, taught in German

WT 2009

Social inequality and ethnic differentiation, University of Mannheim Research seminar in MA, taught in German

WT 2009

European societies, University of Mannheim Lecture in BA, taught in German

WT 2009

Research colloquium for graduate and doctoral students University of Mannheim

ST 2009

Introduction in Sociology of Migration, University of Bamberg Lecture at the graduate level, taught in German

ST 2009

Research seminar in Migration sociology II University of Bamberg, Seminar at the graduate level, taught in German

ST 2009

Analysis of social structure from historical and comparative perspective II, University of Bamberg, Lecture at the undergraduate level, taught in German

WT 2008/09

Theory and Methodology of the Migration research, Seminar at the graduate level, University of Bamberg, taught in German

WT 2008/09

Analysis of social structure from historical and comparative perspective I, University of Bamberg, Lecture at the undergraduate level, taught in German

WT 2008/09

Language acquisition of immigrants and their integration in the host society: theory and empirical evidence, University of Bamberg, Seminar at the graduate level, taught in German

WT 2008/09

Research seminar in Migration sociology I University of Bamberg, Seminar at the graduate level, taught in German

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ST 2008

Language acquisition of immigrants and their integration in the host society, University of Bamberg, Seminar at the undergraduate level, taught in German

ST 2008

Resources and structural Assimilation of Migrants and their offspring, University of Bamberg, Seminar at the graduate level, taught in German

ST 2008

Theory and Methodology of the Migration research, Seminar at the graduate level, University of Bamberg, taught in German

WT 2007, ST 2008, WT 2008, ST 2009

Theory und Empirical Evidence of social Inequality, University of Bamberg Colloquium at the graduate level, taught in German

WT 2007

Introduction in Sociology of Migration, University of Bamberg Lecture at the graduate level, taught in German

WT 2007

International Migration in the 20th Century, University of Bamberg Seminar at the undergraduate level, taught in German

WT 2007

Prejudice and discrimination, University of Bamberg Seminar at the graduate level, taught in German

ST 2007

Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Europe, University of Bamberg Seminar at the graduate level, taught in English

ST 2007

Prejudice and discrimination, University of Bamberg Course at the graduate level, taught in German

ST 2007

Prejudices and discrimination, University of Mannheim Seminar at the graduate level, taught in German

WT 2006

Graduate Colloquium, MZES, Department A

WT 2006

Resource endowment and structural assimilation of youth with migration background, University of Mannheim Course at the graduate level, taught in German

ST 2006

Graduate Colloquium, MZES, Department A

ST 2006

Educational Systems and School-to-Work Transitions in Europe, University of Mannheim Seminar at the graduate level, taught in English

WT 2004-2005

Methods of Empirical Research, University of Mannheim Undergraduate course, taught in German 6

ST 2000

Statistics, Tel Aviv University Undergraduate courses, taught in Hebrew Ref.: Prof. Noah Lewin-Epstein

ST 2000

Introduction in SPSS, Tel Aviv University Undergraduate courses, taught in Hebrew Ref.: Prof. Noah Lewin-Epstein

WT 1999-2000

Research Methods, Tel Aviv University Undergraduate course, taught in Hebrew Ref.: Prof. Noah Lewin-Epstein

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Monographs and edited volumes Kogan, Irena, Gebel, Michael and Clemens Noelke (Eds.) 2008. Europe enlarged: a handbook of education, labour and welfare regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Bristol: The Policy Press Kogan, Irena 2007. Working through Barriers: Host country institutions and immigrant labour market performance in Europe. Dordrecht: Spinger. Kogan, Irena and Walter Müller (Eds.) 2003. School-to-Work Transitions in Europe: Analyses of the EU LFS 2000 Ad Hoc Module. MZES. Mannheim. Papers in refereed journals Cohen, Yinon, Haberfeld, Yitchak and Irena Kogan. 2008. Jüdische Immigration aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion: Ein natürliches Experiment zur Migrationsentscheidung. P. 185-201 in: Kalter, F (ed.), Migration und Integration, Sonderheft 48 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Kristen, Cornelia, Reimer, David and Irena Kogan. 2008. „Higher education entry of Turkish immigrant youth in Germany”, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 49(2–3): 127–151. Irena Kogan and Marge Unt. 2008. “The role of vocational specificity of educational credentials for labor market entry in Estonia and Slovenia”, International Sociology 23(3): 389-416. Saar, Ellu, Unt, Marge and Irena Kogan. 2007. “Transition from Educational System to Labour Market in the European Union: A Comparison Between New and Old Members“, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48(6): 551-579. Kogan, Irena. 2007. “A study of immigrants’ employment careers in West Germany using the sequence analysis technique”, Social Science Research 36(2): 491-511.

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Cohen, Yinon and Irena Kogan. 2007. “Next year in Jerusalem … or in Cologne? Labor Market Integration of Jewish: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s”, European Sociological Review 23(2): 155-168. Kogan, Irena. 2006. “Labor Markets and Economic Incorporation among Recent Immigrants in Europe”, Social Forces 85(2):697-721. Kalter, Frank and Irena Kogan. 2006. “Ethnic Inequalities at the Transition from School to Work in Belgium and Spain: Discrimination or Self-Exclusion?”, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 259-74. Kogan, Irena and Frank Kalter. 2006. ”The effects of relative group size on occupational outcomes: Turks and Ex-Yugoslavs in Austria”, European Sociological Review 22(1): 35-48. Kogan, Irena and Marge Unt. 2005. “Transition from School to Work in Transition Economies”, European Societies, 7 (2): 219-253. Kogan, Irena. 2004. “Last Hired, First Fired? The Unemployment Dynamics of Male Immigrants in Germany”, European Sociological Review 20(5): 445-461. Kogan, Irena. 2004. “Labour Market Careers of Immigrants in Germany and Great Britain”, Journal of International Migration and Integration 5(4): 419-449. Scherer, Stefani und Irena Kogan. 2004. „Erwerbseintritt in Europa“, Bildung und Erziehung 57(2): 133-154. Kogan, Irena. 2003. “Ex-Yugoslavs in the Austrian and Swedish Labour Markets: The Significance of the Period of Migration and the Effect of Citizenship Acquisition”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 29 (4): 595-622. Lewin-Epstein, Noah, Moshe Semyonov, Irena Kogan und Richard Wanner. 2003. “Institutional Structure and Immigrant Integration: A Comparative Study of Immigrants’ Labor Market Attainment in Canada and Israel”, International Migration Review 37(2): 389420.

Book chapters Kogan, Irena. 2010. "Immigrant Investment in Host Country Vocational Education and Training", in The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, edited by Barry McGaw, Penelope Peterson and Eva Baker, Elsevier (forthcoming). Roth, Tobias, Zerrin Salikutluk und Irena Kogan 2010. „Auf die ‚richtigen’ Kontakte kommt es an! Soziale Ressourcen und die Bildungsaspirationen der Mutter von Haupt-, Real- und Gesamtschülern in Deutschland“. S. 179-212 in: Birgit Becker, David Reimer (Eds.): Vom Kindergarten bis zur Hochschule. Die Generierung von ethnischen und sozialen Disparitäten in der Bildungsbiographie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Schneider, Silke L., and Irena Kogan. 2008. “The International Standard Classification of Education 1997: challenges in the application to national data and the implementation in cross-national surveys”. P. 13-46 in: Silke L. Schneider (Hrsg.): The International Standard 8

Classification of Education (ISCED-97). An Evaluation of Content and Criterion Validity for 15 European Countries. Mannheim, MZES. Kogan, Irena and Yinon Cohen. 2007. “Educational Selectivity and Labor Market Attainment of Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s” in Kolb, Holger and Henrik Egbert (Eds.) Work, Entrepreneurship and Economic Integration, Amsterdam University Press. Kogan, Irena, Marge Unt und Ellu Saar. 2007. „Youth unemployment in the enlarged European Union”, in Stefani Scherer, Reinhard Pollak, Gunnar Otte, Markus Gangl (Eds.): From Origin to Destination. Trends and Mechanisms in Social Stratification Research. Frankfurt (Main)/New York, pp. 182-213. Kogan, Irena. 2007. “Continuing Ethnic Segmentation in Austria”, in Heath, Anthony and Sin Yi Cheung (Eds.): Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University press, pp. 103-142. Kogan, Irena. 2007. “The Role of Host Countries’ Institutional Characteristics in the Labour Market Success of Third-country Immigrants in Europe”, in Egbert, Henrik and Clemens Esser (Eds.): Migration and Labour Markets in the Social Sciences, INFER Research Perspectives Vol. 2; LIT Verlag, Münster-Hamburg-Berlin-Wien-London, pp. 5578. Cohen, Yinon and Irena Kogan. 2005. “Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union to Germany and Israel in the 1990s”. Pp. 249-265 in Grenville, J. A. S. und Raphael Gross (Eds.): Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Oxford, Berghahn Books. Kogan, Irena. 2005. “La transizione dall'istruzione superiore al mercato del lavoro in Europa”. Pp. 137-165 in Cammelli, Andrea (Ed.): La transizione dall'università al lavoro in Europa ed in Italia. Il Mulino, Bologna. Kalter, Frank, and Irena Kogan. 2003. “Ethnic Inequalities at Labour Market Entry in Belgium and Spain”. Pp. 151–178 in Kogan, I. and Müller, W. (Eds.): School-to-Work Transitions in Europe: Analyses of the EU LFS 2000 Ad hoc Module. Mannheim. Kogan, Irena, and Frank Schubert. 2003. “Youth Transitions from Education to Working Life in Europe: A General Overview”. Pp. 5-27 in Kogan, I. and Müller, W. (Eds.) School-to-Work Transitions in Europe: Analyses of the EU LFS 2000 Ad Hoc Module. Mannheim.

Other publications Kogan, Irena. 2006. Improving Grounds for Comparative Education Research in Europe: Evaluation of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 1997) for Comparative Research. EQUALSOC State of the Art Report - Research Group Education, Social Mobility and Social Cohesion (EDUC). Kogan, Irena, and Frank Schubert. 2003. “General indicators on transition from school to work”, Statistics in focus, Population and social conditions (Theme 3) No. 4. Eurostat.

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Kogan, Irena. 2003. A Study of Employment Careers of Immigrants in Germany. MZES Working Paper No. 66. Mannheim. Kalter, Frank, and Irena Kogan. 2002. Ethnic Inequalities at Labour Market Entry in Belgium and Spain. MZES Working Paper No. 49. Mannheim. Kogan, Irena. 2002. Labour Market Inclusion of Immigrants in Austria and Sweden: The Significance of the Period of Migration and the Effect of Citizenship Acquisition. MZES Working Paper No. 44. Mannheim. Kogan, Irena and Frank Schubert. 2002. “Youth Transitions from Education to Working Life in Europe: A General Overview”, Indicators on School-to-Work Transitions in Europe. Evaluation and Analyses of the LFS 2000 Ad Hoc Module Data on School-to-Work Transitions: Indicator report. Eurostat Working Paper No. 21. Luxembourg: European Commission. Kalter, Frank and Irena Kogan. 2002. “Ethnic Inequalities and Labour Market Entry”, Indicators on School-to-Work Transitions in Europe. Evaluation and Analyses of the LFS 2000 Ad Hoc Module Data on School-to-Work Transitions: Indicator report. Eurostat Working Paper No. 21. Luxembourg: European Commission. Müller, Walter, Irena Kogan, Frank, Kalter, David Raffe, Cristina Iannelli, Emer Smyth, Maarten Wolbers, Markus Gangl. 2002. Evaluation and Analyses of the LFS 2000 Ad Hoc Module Data on School-to-Work Transitions: Recommendations on the Replication of the Module. Mannheim: MZES Report. Herzog, Hanna, Roby Nathanson and Irena Kogan. 1999. Evaluation of the Performance of Women Candidates in Israel’s Local Elections: Lessons from the Past; Plans for the Future. Tel Aviv: The Israeli Institute for Economic and Social Research Working Series (in Hebrew).

MEMBERSHIPS Member of the section “Migration und ethnic minorities“ of the German Sociological Association Member of the section “Methods of empirical research” of the German Sociological Association Members of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC 28) Member of the research network “Transition in Youth (TIY)“

REVIEWER ACTIVITIES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS • • • • •

European Sociological Review European Journal of Population Social Forces Sociology of Education European Societies 10

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Social Science Research Zeitschrift für Familienforschung International Sociology Methoden-Daten-Analysen Zeitschrift für Soziologie Journal Child Indicators Research

REFEREE FOR: • •

German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) Germany Research Authority, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Russian (mother tongue) English; German; Hebrew; Ukrainian (all four: fluency) French (limited reading comprehension) Latin (basics)

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE High proficiency in: Microsoft Office, SPSS, STATA, HLM, TDA Proficiency in: AMOS, BMDP, CHAID

December 1, 2009, Mannheim

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