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.

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.

Jessica Ordemann

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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College dropout and the Covid-19 pandemic Can psychological resources mitigate potential differences by social origin?

Ehrhardt, M.-C., Ordemann, J., Peter, F., & Buchholz, S. (2021, Juni).
College dropout and the Covid-19 pandemic Can psychological resources mitigate potential differences by social origin? In L. Zander & S. Buchholz (Vorsitz), Maintaining student engagement, persistence, and growth in online learning environments: connecting insights from large- and small-scale assessments. Symposium im Rahmen der Tagung digiGEBF21 Thementagung „Hochschule 2021 – postdigital und postpandemisch (?)“, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Changing Academic Careers Lecture Series.

Carstensen, J., Euler, T., Fabian, G., Goldan, L., Grüttner, M., ... & Schwabe, U. (2021, Juni).
Workshop Changing Academic Careers Lecture Series, DZHW, Universität Würzburg, LCSS, Universität Hannover, Hannover (online).

Perspektiven des Forschungsclusters Bildungserträge – Inhaltliches Update 2020 und Planung für 2021.

Carstensen, J., Euler, T., Goldan, L., Grüttner, M., Güleryüz, D., ... & Schwabe, U. (2020, November).
Workshop Perspektiven des Forschungsclusters Bildungserträge – Inhaltliches Update 2020 und Planung für 2021 Workshop des Forschungsclusters "Erträge tertiärer Bildung", DZHW, Hannover.

Going Up … or going down? Bildungs- und Berufsmobilität in Deutschland.

Ordemann, J., Buchholz, S., & Maaz, K. (2020, November).
Going Up … or going down? Bildungs- und Berufsmobilität in Deutschland. Vortrag auf der Tagung Gemeinsame Frühjahrstagung, DGS-Sektionen „Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse“ und „Bildung und Erziehung“, Bamberg, Deutschland.

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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)

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