Jan Skopek
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Jan Skopek, Dr., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Previously, he held positions as post-doctoral researcher at the State Institute of Family Research at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and as post-doctoral Senior Researcher at the Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) located at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. At the EUI, he was part of the research team on the ERC-funded international comparative research project 'Education as a Lifelong Process - Comparing Educational Trajectories in Modern Societies' (eduLIFE). Before that, he headed the Research Data Centre of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) located at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg (Germany). His research relates to family and social stratification, social demography, the life course, cross-national comparison, and quantitative methodology. He is co-editor of several books and is publishing in internationally renowned journals.
Research Interest
Substantial: social stratification, life course and family demography. Particular: assortative mating; grandparenthood; gendered division of labor; early childhood education and care; comparative life-course research; gender inequalities; educational systems and inequalities of educational opportunity. Methodological: cross-national research; quantitative longitudinal research; panel data analysis; categorical data analysis; event history analysis; multi-level analysis, methods of data management; survey methodology and online-research.
Publications
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Zillmann, D., Schmitz, A., Skopek, J, Blossfeld, H.-P. , Survey Topic and Unit Nonresponse - Evidence from an Online Survey on Mating, Quality & Quantity, 48, (4), 2014, p2069 - 2088
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Leopold T., Skopek J., Gender and the division of labor in older couples: How European grandparents share market work and childcare, Social Forces, 93, (1), 2014, p63-91
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Leopold T., Skopek J., The demography of grandparenthood: An international profile, Social Forces, 94, (2), 2015, p801-832
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Kosyakova Y., Skopek J., Eckman S., Do Interviewers Manipulate Responses to Filter Questions? Evidence from a Multilevel Approach, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 27, (3), 2015, p417-431
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Triventi, M., Skopek, J., Kosyakova, Y., Buchholz, S., Blossfeld, H.-P. , Gender Inequalities at Labor Market Entry: A Comparative View from the eduLIFE Project, Comparative Social Research, 31, 2015, p25 - 51
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Leopold T., Skopek J., Skopek J., The delay of grandparenthood: A Cohort comparison in East and West Germany, Journal of Marriage and Family, 77, (2), 2015, p441-460
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Leopold, T., Skopek, J. , Convergence or Continuity? The Gender Gap in Household Labor After Retirement., Journal of Marriage and Family, 77, (4), 2015, p819 - 832
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Blossfeld, H.-P., Skopek, J., Triventi, M., Buchholz, S., Gender, Education and Employment. An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions., Celtenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2015
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Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S., Triventi, M., Skopek, J., Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality. An International Comparison., Celtenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2016
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Blossfeld, H.-P., von Maurice, J., Bayer, M., Skopek, J. , Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys: The Example of the National Educational Panel Study., Wiesbaden, Springer, 2016 Book, 2016
