Jessica Ordemann

Dr. Jessica Ordemann

Research Area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment
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Dr. Jessica Ordemann is a social demographer working as a senior researcher and project lead of the German Student Survey at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW). Her research focusses on the individual and societal consequences of changes in the education system. She investigates educational inequalities and the associated life chances over the life course with a special focus on long-term returns on education.

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Academic research fields

Educational inequalities, labor market

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The student survey in Germany
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The long shadow of occupation: Volunteering in Retirement.

Lengfeld, H., & Ordemann, J. (2016).
The long shadow of occupation: Volunteering in Retirement. Rationality and Society, 28(I), 3-23.
Abstract

This article examines the extent to which the former occupation of an employee impacts the likelihood that one will decide to volunteer upon retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume that beginning with retirement, the status value attached to their former occupation fades. Because volunteering has the character of a collective good, it provides an opportunity to gain social status, offsetting the loss of occupational status. However, the extent of the incentive to volunteer will be distributed unequally across occupations: the higher the former occupational status value, the higher the perceived loss of status after retirement. Thus, a job with high status value increases the incentive to volunteer in retirement.

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Research in Higher Education in Germany: A Symposium on Longitudinal Studies in the Perspective of Institutional Contexts and Reforms.

Briedis, K., & Ordemann, J. (2023, Oktober).
Research in Higher Education in Germany: A Symposium on Longitudinal Studies in the Perspective of Institutional Contexts and Reforms.Symposium im Rahmen der Tagung Life courses in times of uncertainty, Society of Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS), München, Deutschland.
Abstract

Research in higher education is inherently interdisciplinary and longitudinal in its perspective. The educational pathway to study begins in the cradle and continues with the choice of the type of university and the subject of study and then ends in the labor market or in the decision to remain in the academic system, to pursue a doctorate or even a professorship. In our symposium, we bring together interdisciplinary contributions that research a variety of topics in higher education from student aid to returns on subject-specific education, decisions about late career drop out and pathways to professorships. Discussant: Katharina Werner (ifo).

Subject-specific higher education gender wage gap in Germany, 1993-2013.

Ordemann, J., & Trennt, F. (2023, Oktober).
Subject-specific higher education gender wage gap in Germany, 1993-2013. In J. Ordemann & K. Briedis (Vorsitz), Research in higher education in Germany: Longitudinal studies in the perspective of insitutional contexts and reforms. Symposium im Rahmen der Tagung Life courses in times of uncertainty, Society of Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS), München, Deutschland.

Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in Light of Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Women and Men, Germany.

Ordemann, J., & Buchholz, S. (2023, September).
Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in Light of Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Women and Men, Germany. Vortrag auf der Konferenz ECSR Annual Conference 2023, Insitute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prag, Czech Republic.

Intragenerational occupational mobility in light of intergenerational educational mobility.

Ordemann, J., & Buchholz, S. (2023, August).
Intragenerational occupational mobility in light of intergenerational educational mobility. Vortrag auf der Konferenz Knowledge Society (AS23), Universität Bern, Akademie der Soziologie, Bern, Schweiz.

Intragenerational occupational mobility in the context of educational expansion: The German case.

Ordemann, J., & Buchholz, S. (2023, August).
Intragenerational occupational mobility in the context of educational expansion: The German case. Vortrag auf der Konferenz 118th Annual Meeting: The Educative Power of Sociology, American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, USA.

Intragenerational occupational mobility in the light of intergenerational educational mobility of women and men, Germany.

Ordemann, J., & Buchholz, S. (2023, August).
Intragenerational occupational mobility in the light of intergenerational educational mobility of women and men, Germany. Vortrag auf der Konferenz RC28 Summer Meeting, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, University of Michigan, Berlin, USA.

Subject-Specific Higher Education Gender Wage Gap in Germany, 1993-2013.

Trennt, F., & Ordemann, J. (2023, Mai).
Subject-Specific Higher Education Gender Wage Gap in Germany, 1993-2013. Vortrag auf der Tagung LERN Jahrestagung 2023, IDS Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, gesis Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften & ZEW Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung , Mannheim.

Lohnt sich ein Studium ohne Abitur? Erkenntnisse aus der Arbeitsmarktforschung.

Ordemann, J. (2023, März).
Lohnt sich ein Studium ohne Abitur? Erkenntnisse aus der Arbeitsmarktforschung. Vortrag auf der Tagung Berufliche Karrieren von Nicht-Traditionell Studierenden, AG Offene Hochschule Niedersachsen, Hannover.

Erträge hochschulischer Bildung.

Ordemann, J. (2022, November).
Erträge hochschulischer Bildung. Vortrag auf dem Kolloquium Forschungskolloquium 11 | 2022, Leibniz Forschungszentrums Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (LCSS), Hannover, Deutschland.

Forty and over the scientific hill?

Ordemann, J., & Naegele, L. (2022, November).
Forty and over the scientific hill? Vortrag auf der Konferenz CIDER-LERN 2022, Universität Luxemburg, CIDER, Leibniz Education, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxemburg.

Baby Boomers‘ monetary returns on education. A comparison with their direct down- and Upstream cohorts.

Ordemann, J. (2022, Oktober).
Baby Boomers‘ monetary returns on education. A comparison with their direct down- and Upstream cohorts. Vortrag auf der Konferenz 2022 SLLS Annual International Conference, Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS). Growing Up and Growing Older Across Societies: Harnessing the Power of Comparative Research, Cleveland, USA.

Monetary returns to higher education: A comparison of babyboomers age 45-60 with their direct down- and upstream cohorts.

Ordemann, J. (2022, Oktober).
Monetary returns to higher education: A comparison of babyboomers age 45-60 with their direct down- and upstream cohorts. Vortrag auf der Tagung 4th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM 2022), DZHW und IAB, Nürnberg.

Forty and Over The Academic Hill? Wissenschaftliche Karrierewege von älteren Promovierten in die Entfristung.

Ordemann, J., & Naegele, L. (2022, September).
Forty and Over The Academic Hill? Wissenschaftliche Karrierewege von älteren Promovierten in die Entfristung. Vortrag auf dem Kongress Polarisierte Welten. 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozio­lo­gie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bielefeld, Deutschland.

Wo wird gearbeitet (werden)? Forschung zum zukünftigen Arbeitsmarkt.

Ordemann, J. (2022, September).
Teilnahme an der Podiumsdiskussion Wo wird gearbeitet (werden)? Forschung zum zukünftigen Arbeitsmarkt Talking about Careers, Career Center der Universität Hamburg, Online.

Baby Boomers’ careers before entering retirement.

Ordemann, J. (2022, September).
Baby Boomers’ careers before entering retirement. Poster auf dem Symposium 3. Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt; Foundation Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Ivine, CA, USA, USA.
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Career
04/2025

Project lead (Senior Researcher) 'The Student Survey in Germany'

11/2020 - 03/2025

Researcher (Post-Doc) at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)

11/2018 - 10/2020

Scientific Coordinator at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

02/2017 - 09/2018

Junior Researcher at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

04/2014 - 01/2017

Junior Researcher at the University of Leipzig

04/2012 - 03/2014

Junior Researcher at the University of Hamburg

04/2009 - 03/2012

Student Researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)

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Education and Academic Degrees
2014 - 2019

PhD in sociology at the University of Leipzig

2010 - 2011

Master in sociology at the Free University Berlin

2006 - 2010

Bachelor in cultural studies with focus on sociology at the Long Distance Learning University Hagen

Memberships and positions

  • Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS)
  • Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
  • Academy of Sociology
  • German Sociological Association