Maik Hamjediers

Doctoral Candidate and Research Fellow
Department of Social Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

           


Welcome!

I am a doctoral candidate and research fellow at the Department of Social Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

My work focuses on social stratification, gender inequalities in the labor market and domestic sphere, and the methodology of empirical social research. I seek to understand barriers to achieving a more equitable workforce, with a specific focus on cultural expectations surrounding gender in the labor market. Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative analyses of administrative and survey data, including research designs to draw causal inferences from observational data.

I hold a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Social Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and have been a visitor at the departments of sociology of Brown University and University of Haifa.

You can find my complete CV here.


Publications

2024

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.

Graphical abstract | Supplementary | Replication materials

2023

Gender Compositions of Occupations and Firms Jointly Shape Switches from Gender-Atypical Towards More Gender-Typical Positions (with Eileen Peters). European Societies, online first.

Graphical abstract | Supplementary | Replication materials

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.

Graphical abstract | 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.

Graphical abstract | 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.

Graphical abstract | Supplementary

2021

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

Graphical abstract | Supplementary

2018

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


Work in Progress

Tailored to Women, Provided to Men? Gendered Occupational Inequality in Access to Flexible Working-Time Arrangements (with Aljoscha Jacobi & Tabea Naujoks; under review).

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice (with Sascha Riaz; under review).

Gender-Specific Occupational Titles, Occupational Gender Compositions, and Occupational Prestige (with Ferdinand Geißler, Johannes Giesecke & Markus Schrenker).

• Pre-registration on OSF

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

The Flip Side of Gender Segregation: Men in Female-Dominated Occupations (with Marga Torre).


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 in linear regressions

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