Maik Hamjediers

Postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute

           


Welcome!

I am a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. In the summer term of 2025, I am substituting for the Professorship of Microsociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

My work centers on social stratification, gender inequalities in both the labor market and domestic sphere, and on how related processes unfold over the life course. Metholodogically, I specialize in quantitative analyses of administrative and survey data. Alongside this, I am devoted to teaching and advancing the metholodogy of empirical social research.

I hold a PhD in Sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I also obtained a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Social Sciences. I have been a visitor at the departments of sociology of Brown University and University of Haifa.

You can find my complete CV here.


Publications

2025

Tailored to Women, Provided to Men? Gendered Occupational Inequality in Access to Flexible Working-Time Arrangements (with Aljoscha Jacobi & Tabea Naujoks). Social Indicators Research, 176: 1179-1205. | Interview

2024

Gender Compositions of Occupations and Firms Jointly Shape Switches from Gender-Atypical Towards More Gender-Typical Positions (with Eileen Peters). European Societies, 26 (4): 1170-1194. | Supplementary | Replication materials

Intersections and Commonalities: Using Matching to Decompose Wage Gaps by Gender and Nativity in Germany (with Maximilian Sprengholz). Work and Occupations, 51 (2): 249-286. | Supplementary | Replication materials

2023

Gender-Atypical Learning Experiences of Men Reduce Occupational Sex Segregation: Evidence from the Suspension of the Civilian Service in Germany. Gender & Society, 37 (4): 524-552. | Supplementary | Summary in Gender & Society-Blog

Comparing the Incomparable? Issues of Lacking Common Support, Functional Form Mis-Specification, and Insufficient Sample Size in Decompositions (with Maximilian Sprengholz). Sociological Methodology, 53 (2): 344-365. | Supplementary | Replication materials

2022

Marriage, the Risk of Overeducation, and Selection into Both: Evidence from Germany (with Paul Schmelzer). European Sociological Review, 38 (1): 73-87. | Supplementary

2021

Can Regional Gender Ideologies Account for Variation of Gender Pay Gaps? The Case of Germany. Social Sciences, 10 (9): 347. | Supplementary

2018

Do-files for working with SOEP spell data (with Paul Schmelzer & Tobias Wolfram). SOEP Survey Papers, Series G: 492.


Work in Progress

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice (with Sascha Riaz; revised & resubmitted).

Investigating the Analytical Robustness of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (Analyst for the Multi100 project; revise & resubmit).

Do Occupations Convey the Same Prestige to Their Male and Female Workers? (with Ferdinand Geißler, Johannes Giesecke & Markus Schrenker; under review). | Pre-registration on OSF

The Flip Side of Gender Segregation: Cross-National and Temporal Variation in Men's Participation in Female-Dominated Occupations (with Marga Torre; under review).

Predictors of Working in More or Less Gender-Atypical Occupations: A Socio-Genomic Approach for Occupational Segregation Between Women and Men (with Tobias Wolfram & Evelina T. Akimova).

Does Mandatory Service Shape Men's Occupational Choices? Evidence from the Suspension of Conscription Across Europe (with Leandro Iván Canzio).

"Do You Think That I Should Care?" Measuring Social Expectations About Cognitive Labor in Household Contexts (with Tabea Naujoks).


Teaching Experience

Statistics I (4 terms) & Statistics II (5 terms)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, BA Lecture, 180 students
Topics: Descriptive statistics, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, linear and logistic regression, exploratory factor analysis
Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (winter term 2018/19)
Nominated for Humboldt Award for Excellence in Digital Teaching (winter term 2020/21)

Empirical Social Research I
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with Dr. Ferdinand Geißler, BA Seminar, 150 students
Topics: Designing and implementing students' survey experiments

What others think you can do, but you can't do, and what you can do about it
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, BA Seminar, 25 students
Topics: Data wrangling, writing simulations to evaluate estimators, bootstrapping, further topics regarding regression analyses

Introduction to Social Science Research
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, BA Seminar, 25 students
Topics: Introduction to methodology of social science research, reading and writing academic manuscripts


Software Development