K. Wessling

Katarina is leading a junior research group on the regional infrastructure and occupational segementation. Her research group is located at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) in Bonn and at ROA.

She joined ROA as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017. Before that she obtained her doctoral degree in 2016 in Sociology at the University of Tuebingen.

Her research interests lie in influences of spatial and institutional contexts on educational and labour market outcomes, in occupational characteristics as well as in survey methodology and quantitative methods.

For more information see: Katarina's BIBB profile & www.kwessling.net

Publications

Cruz, Irene, Molina, Oscar, Paulauskaite, Elma, Tursa, Andrius, Recotillet, Isabelle, Schmidt, Tanja, Tomlinson, Mark & Katarina Weßling (2018). Indicators of labour market segmentation and policies to combat it. Expert report: European Foundation for the Improvement for Living and working Conditions (EUROFOUND).
*Hillmert, Steffen, Hartung, Andreas & Katarina Weßling (2017). Dealing with space and place in standard survey data.Survey Research Methods. 11(3). p.267-287. Special Issue: Uses of Geographic Information Systems Tools in Survey Data Collection and Analysis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18148/srm/2017.v11i3.6729
*Hillmert, Steffen, Hartung, Andreas & Katarina Weßling (2017). A Decomposition of Local Labor-Market Conditions and Their Relevance for Inequalities in Transitions to Vocational Training. European Sociological Review. 33(4). p. 534–550. DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcx057.
Weßling, Katarina (2016). The influence of socio-spatial contexts on transitions from school to vocational and academic training in Germany. Dissertation. University of Tuebingen. DOI: 10.15496/publikation-15222.
*Weßling, Katarina, Hartung, Andreas & Steffen Hillmert (2015). Spatial structure counts: The relevance of regional labour-market conditions for educational transitions to vocational training. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training. 7(12). DOI: 10.1186/s40461-015-0024-6.
Weßling, Katarina & Alexandra Wicht (2015). Möglichkeiten der Nutzung regionaler Daten im Nationalen Bildungspanel (NEPS) – ein Überblick. NEPS Working Paper. No.54.
*Hillmert, Steffen & Katarina Weßling (2014). Soziale Ungleichheit beim Zugang zu berufsqualifizierender Ausbildung – Das Zusammenspiel von sozioökonomischem Hintergrund, Migrationsstatus und schulischer Vorbildung. Sozialer Fortschritt. 63(4-5). p.72-82. DOI: 10.3790/sfo.63.4-5.72.
Schöb, Anke, Haußmann, Michael, Gieck, Jochen, Schairer, Martin & Katarina Weßling (2012). Die Ergebnisse der Bürgerumfrage 2011 in der Gesamtschau. Statistik und Informationsmanagement, Themenheft 1/2012.
Weßling, Katarina (2012). Private Internetnutzung in der Stuttgarter Bevölkerung – Ergebnisse der Bürgerumfrage 2011. Statistik und Informationsmanagement. Monatsheft 03/2012.
Weßling, Katarina (2011). Ergebnisse der Stuttgarter Online-Jugendbefragung 2010/2011. Statistik und Informationsmanagement. Monatsheft 04/2011.