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Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Hans-Peter Blossfeld

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
75
Citations
31938
World Ranking
527
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Hans-Peter Blossfeld is affiliated with the University of Bamberg in Germany. Their primary research domain is in the social sciences, with a focus on education and sociology. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields including education, sociology and political science, and demography.

The core topics of Hans-Peter Blossfeld's research include:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Sociology and Education Studies
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • Education and Experiences of Immigrants and Refugees

Their collaboration network includes several frequent co-authors such as:

  • Gwendolin J. Blossfeld (3 co-authored works)
  • M. Shae Nester (2 co-authored works)
  • Sabine Weinert (2 co-authored works)
  • Lydia Kleine (1 co-authored work)
  • Nicole Luplow (1 co-authored work)

Among their published books is Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories, released in 2023 by Springer International Publishing. This publication reflects themes consistent with their broader research interests in education and social sciences.

Hans-Peter Blossfeld has been recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005 with an award citing contributions to economics and empirical social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Techniques of event history modeling : new approaches to causal analysis

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Götz Rohwer

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

    Yossi Shavit;Hans-Peter Blossfeld

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

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Erik Klijzing;Melinda Mills;Karin Kurz

  • 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

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

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Alfred Hamerle;Karl Ulrich Mayer

  • 2 Education as a lifelong process

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Jutta von Maurice

  • Event History Analysis With Stata

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Katrin Golsch;Götz Rohwer

  • Persistent inequality : changing educational attainment in thirteen countries

    Yossi Shavit;Hans-Peter Blossfeld

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

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Andreas Timm

  • Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Erik Klijzing;Melinda Mills;Karin Kurz

  • Globalization, uncertainty and changes in early life courses

    Melinda Mills;Hans-Peter Blossfeld

  • Educational Assortative Marriage in Comparative Perspective

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld

  • Between equalization and marginalization: women working part-time in Europe

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Catherine Hakim

  • Event history analysis with stata

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  • Bildungsexpansion und Berufschancen : empirische Analysen zur Lage der Berufsanfänger in der Bundesrepublik

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld

  • Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion sozialer Ungleichheit im Lebensverlauf

    Karl Ulrich Mayer;Hans-Peter Blossfeld

  • Ereignisanalyse : statistische Theorie und Anwendung in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Alfred Hamerle;Karl Ulrich Mayer

  • Globalization, Uncertainty and Men’s Careers: An International Comparison

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Melinda Mills;Fabrizio Bernardi

  • Careers of couples in contemporary societies : from male breadwinner to dual earner families

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld;Sonja Drobnič

  • Techniques of event history modeling

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld

  • Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries

    Denis Lawton;Y. Shavit;H. P. Blossfeld

  • Event History Analysis.

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills University of Oxford
Karl Ulrich Mayer
Karl Ulrich Mayer Max Planck Society
Olaf Köller
Olaf Köller Leibniz Association
Tina Seidel
Tina Seidel Technical University of Munich
Catherine Hakim
Catherine Hakim London School of Economics and Political Science
Jan M. Hoem
Jan M. Hoem Max Planck Society
Michael T. Hannan
Michael T. Hannan Stanford University
Kathleen Kiernan
Kathleen Kiernan University of York
Matthijs Kalmijn
Matthijs Kalmijn University of Groningen

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