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.
Dr. Jessica Ordemann
Research Area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment
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Academic research fields
Educational inequalities, labor market
Projects
List of projects
Publications
List of publications
Presentations
List of presentations & conferences
Educational Wage Differentials Over Time – The German Case.Ordemann, J., & Pfeiffer, F. (2021, September).Educational Wage Differentials Over Time – The German Case. Vortrag auf der Konferenz ECER 2021 “Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations”, European Educational Research Association, Geneva (online), Schweiz. |
The Evolution of Educational Wage Differentials for Women and Men, 1996 to 2019.Ordemann, J., & Pfeiffer, F. (2021, August).The Evolution of Educational Wage Differentials for Women and Men, 1996 to 2019. Vortrag auf der Konferenz ASA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (VAM), American Sociological Association, Chicago, USA. Abstract
From the perspective of the higher education expansion in Germany, the paper concentrates on the development of the higher education wage premium from 1996 to 2018. We ask how the wage premium develops over that time frame and which factors explain the trend we find. Using 206,904 observations of individual-level data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we show a general upward trend in wage premiums. At the same time the wage premiums for university graduates lose their upward dynamic towards the end of the observation window, especially for men. |
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.
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.
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. |
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
