Maik Hamjediers

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

             


Welcome!

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

My research explores various aspects of social inequalities, such as gender inequalities, the role occupations, life course dynamics, and the intersectionality of social categorizations. Additionally, I investigate the legitimacy and outcomes of mandatory military and social services. Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative analysis using large-scale administrative and survey data, seeking causal insights from both experimental and observational research designs. Alongside this, I am devoted to teaching and advancing empirical social research.

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

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.

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.

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. | 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.

2022

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

2021

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

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; revise & resubmit).

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).

A Threat Next Door? Causal Evidence from Russia's Invasion on Willingness to Defend in the Czech Republic and Uruguay (under review).

Predictors of Working in More or Less Gender-Atypical Occupations: A Socio-Genomic Approach for Occupational Segregation of 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

Introduction to Social Science Research
Topics: Introduction to methodology of social science research, reading and writing academic manuscripts

Gender Inequalities - Theory and Empirics
Topics: Theories on gender inequalities in education, the labor market, and the domestic domain; from theory to empirical comparisons; designing quantitative studies

Academic Writing in Social Demography
Topics: Critical reading of manuscripts; assessing contributions; writing drafts and providing constructive feedback; describing results

Empirical Social Research
Topics: Designing and implementing students' survey experiments

Statistics
Topics: Descriptive statistics, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, linear and logistic regression, exploratory factor analysis

What others think you can do, but you can't do, and what you can do about it
Topics: Data wrangling, writing simulations to evaluate estimators, bootstrapping, further topics regarding regression analyses


Software Development