Dipl.-Soz. Nora Skopek

Nora Skopek (neé Müller) was born in Elsterwerda, Germany, in 1985 and studied sociology and economics (in particular empirical microeconomics) at the University of Leipzig, at the University of Valencia (Spain) and at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg where she received her diploma degree in 2010.

In 2008 she worked as a student research assistant at the chair of sociology II (Prof. Dr. Richard Münch) in Bamberg and from 2009 to 2010 she was working as a student research assistant at the IAB (Institut for Employment Research) in Nuremberg. She took part in the project "Unemployment Duration and the Partner's Resources. Gender asymmetries in job-finding effort and re-entering employment".

Since April 2010 she is engaged as a research scientist and Ph.D. student in the project "Household Wealth Inequality in International Comparison". Her main research interests are in life courses, wealth inequality, quantitative data analysis and international comparison. From June 2011 on she will also be a part of the the ERC Advanced Grant project "Education as a Lifelong Process - Comparing Educational Trajectories in Modern Societies".

Contact

Lehrstuhl für Soziologie I
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Postfach 1549
D-96045 Bamberg
Germany

Dipl.-Soz. Nora Skopek
Phone: (+49)-(0)951-863-3909
Mail: nora.skopek@uni-bamberg.de

Visitors' address:
Wilhelmsplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg
Room: 229 WiPo

Research Projects

Household Wealth Inequality in International Comparison, funded by the German-Israel Foundation (GIF), PIs: Professor Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Professor Noah Lewin-Epstein & Professor Moshe Semyonov, since April 2010.

Publications

Working Papers

Skopek, Nora & Buchholz, Sandra & Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (2011): Wealth, Welfare State and Economic Inequality among the Elderly in Europe. Working Paper. University of Bamberg.
Skopek, Nora & Hochman, Oshrat & Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (2011): Wealth and Psychological Well-Being: A German – Israeli Comparison. Working Paper. University of Bamberg.
Kolb, Kathrin & Skopek, Nora (2011): High Home Ownership Rates as Indicator for High Housing Values? The Two Dimension of Housing Inequality in Europe. Working Paper. University of Bamberg.
Skopek, Nora & Buchholz, Sandra & Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (2011): Wealth Inequality in Europe and the Delusive Egalitarianism of Scandinavian Countries. MPRA Paper No. 35307
Kosyakova, Yuliya & Skopek, Nora & Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (2011): Older Workers' Participation in Adult Education and Labor Market Outcomes. Germany and Russia in Comparison. Working Paper. University of Bamberg.

Conferences & Presentations

[Forthcoming] 2012 May 21-23: 2nd Ruppin International Conference on Immigration and Social Integration. Tel Aviv, Israel. Presentation (together with Oshrat Hochman): "Income and Wealth as Determinants for Subjective Well-Being Among Immigrants and Natives: Germany and Israel Compared".
2011 December 14-17: ECSR 20th Anniversary Conference: European Society or Societies? A 20-Year Perspective. Dublin, Ireland. Presentation (together with Sandra Buchholz & Hans-Peter Blossfeld): "Wealth Inequality in Europe and the Delusive Egalitarianism of Scandinavian Countries".
2011 December 6: First ALWA-User Workshop, IAB, Nuremberg, Germany. Presentation: "Erwerbseintritt und Timing der Ehe".
2011 November 04: 2nd International Workshop on the Socio-Economics of Ageing. Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation (together with Kathrin Kolb): "High Home Ownership Rates as Indicator for High Housing Values? The Two Dimension of Housing Inequality in Europe."
2011 September 07-10: 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA): Social Relations in Turbulent Times. Geneva, Switzerland. Presentation (together with Kathrin Kolb): "High home ownership rates as indicator for low housing values? Determinants of home ownership among elderly Europeans."
2011 May 30: SHARE Austria Conference 'Die 50+ Generation in Europa. Erkenntnisse durch SHARE'. Wien, Austria. Presentation (together with Kathrin Kolb): "Determinanten des Zugangs zu Wohneigentum und des Immobilienwerts von Älteren in Europa."
2011 May 12-13: Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie 2011 "Reichtum: wirtschaftssoziologische Zugänge". Tutzing, Germany. Presentation of Working Paper: "Wealth Inequality in Europe and the Delusive Egalitarianism of Scandinavian Countries."
2010 December 15-17: 6th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy. Jerusalem, Israel. Presentation of Working Paper: "Wealth Inequality in Europe and the Delusive Egalitarianism of Scandinavian Countries."
2010 November 04: Kuratoriumssitzung der Randstad Stiftung. Eschborn, Deutschland. Präsentation "Erwerbseintritt und Timing der Ehe."
2010 October 22 - 23: "The Sources of Inequality across the Globe." Conference at Juan March Institute. Madrid, Spain. Presentation: "Wealth Distribution in a Comparative Perspective" (together with Moshe Semyonov & Noah Lewin-Epstein).
2010 September 30 - October 02: ECSR Conference "Analysing Education, Family, Work and Welfare in Modern Societies: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evidence". Bamberg, Germany. Presentation 1: "Labour Market Entry and Marriage Timing: A Longitudinal Study on the Effect of Women’s Labour Market Entry on the Timing of the First Marriage"; Presentation 2 (together with Sandra Buchholz and Hans-Peter Blossfeld): "Distribution of Household Net Worth Among the Elderly in Europe."

Awards

Award for "Excellent Studies 2010" from the University of Bamberg.
Awardee in the competition "AkademischeAbschlussArbeiten" of the Randstad foundation, 2010.

Membership in Academic Associations

Member in the Section "Economic Sociology/Wirtschaftssoziologie" of the "German Sociological Association/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie" (DGS). See website.
Member of the INBIL - Institute for Longitudinal Educational Research/ Institut für bildungswissenschaftliche Längsschnittforschung. See website.