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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 68 Citations 26,579 287 World Ranking 485 National Ranking 17

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Awards & Achievements

2005 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Social science
  • Statistics
  • Globalization

Hans-Peter Blossfeld focuses on Globalization, Life course approach, Economic growth, Inequality and West germany. His Globalization research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Development economics, Economic system, Welfare and Political economy. His work deals with themes such as Social inequality, Demographic economics and German, which intersect with Life course approach.

In his work, Social structure is strongly intertwined with Developed country, which is a subfield of Economic growth. His research integrates issues of Social change, Labour economics and Educational attainment in his study of Inequality. His Cohort study incorporates themes from Redistribution and Educational systems.

His most cited work include:

  • Persistent inequality : changing educational attainment in thirteen countries (931 citations)
  • Human Capital Investments or Norms of Role Transition? How Women's Schooling and Career Affect the Process of Family Formation (665 citations)
  • Techniques of event history modeling : new approaches to causal analysis (635 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Hans-Peter Blossfeld spends much of his time researching Globalization, Social inequality, Life course approach, Economic growth and Labour economics. His research investigates the link between Globalization and topics such as Development economics that cross with problems in Welfare state. His studies link Demographic economics with Social inequality.

His Life course approach research includes elements of Panel data and German. His study ties his expertise on Inequality together with the subject of Economic growth. His study looks at the intersection of Inequality and topics like Educational attainment with Social change.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Globalization (17.23%)
  • Social inequality (16.10%)
  • Life course approach (14.23%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2020)?

  • Social inequality (16.10%)
  • Economic growth (12.73%)
  • Life course approach (14.23%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Social inequality, Economic growth, Life course approach, Inequality and Labour economics. His Social inequality research integrates issues from Secondary education, Demographic economics, Educational attainment and Distribution. Hans-Peter Blossfeld specializes in Economic growth, namely Education policy.

His Life course approach research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Causation, Cognitive science, Causal inference and German. His Inequality research includes themes of Development economics, Globalization and Gender equality. His research in Labour economics focuses on subjects like Cohort effect, which are connected to Official statistics.

Between 2013 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Adult learning in modern societies : an international comparison from a life-course perspective (43 citations)
  • Education as a Lifelong Process (41 citations)
  • Educational Expansion and Inequalities in Educational Opportunity: Long-Term Changes for East and West Germany (39 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Social science
  • Statistics
  • Globalization

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Social inequality, Economic growth, Labour economics, Demographic economics and Educational attainment. The study incorporates disciplines such as Comparative research and Inequality in addition to Economic growth. His research is interdisciplinary, bridging the disciplines of Development economics and Inequality.

His Labour economics study deals with Scale intersecting with Human resource management, Official statistics and Cohort. The concepts of his Demographic economics study are interwoven with issues in Income inequality metrics, Higher education, Redistribution of income and wealth, Secondary education and Educational inequality. As part of one scientific family, Hans-Peter Blossfeld deals mainly with the area of Education policy, narrowing it down to issues related to the Adult Learning, and often Life course approach.

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Best Publications

Techniques of event history modeling : new approaches to causal analysis

Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Götz Rohwer.
(2001)

2255 Citations

Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Social Inequality Series.

Yossi Shavit;Hans-Peter Blossfeld.
(1993)

2137 Citations

Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society : The Losers in a Globalizing World

Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Erik Klijzing;Melinda Mills;Karin Kurz.
(2006)

1221 Citations

Human Capital Investments or Norms of Role Transition? How Women's Schooling and Career Affect the Process of Family Formation

Hans Peter Blossfeld;Johannes Huinink.
American Journal of Sociology (1991)

1205 Citations

Event History Analysis: Statistical theory and Application in the Social Sciences

Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Alfred Hamerle;Karl Ulrich Mayer.
(1988)

1029 Citations

Persistent inequality : changing educational attainment in thirteen countries

Yossi Shavit;Hans-Peter Blossfeld.
Published in <b>1992</b> in Boulder Colo) by Westview press (1993)

959 Citations

2 Education as a lifelong process

Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Jutta von Maurice.
Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft (2011)

860 Citations

Who marries whom? : educational systems as marriage markets in modern societies

Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Andreas Timm.
(2003)

677 Citations

Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society

H.P. Blossfeld;E. Klijzing;Melinda Mills;H.D. Kurz.
Routledge (2005)

613 Citations

Globalization, uncertainty and changes in early life courses

Melinda Mills;Hans-Peter Blossfeld.
Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft (2003)

605 Citations

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