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 Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Paula Protsch

Research focuses

Social Inequalities, Education, Labor Markets, VET, School-to-Work Transitions

Curriculum vitae

  • Since 2022 Assistant Professor in Sociology, Empirical Methods in Vocational Education and Training, WiSo-Faculty, University of Cologne and Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). in Bonn (Jülicher Modell)
  • 2021-2022 Substitute Professor “Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research and Social Stratification Analysis”, Europa-Universität Flensburg
  • 2013-2021 Senior Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2012 Dr. phil. in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Selected publications

  • Protsch, P. (2021). Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 73.
  • Flohr, M., Menze, L. und Protsch, P. (2020). Berufliche Aspirationen im Kontext regionaler Berufsstrukturen. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 72, 79–104.
  • Borgna, C., Solga, H. und Protsch, P. (2019). Overeducation, Labor Market Dynamics, and Economic Downturn in Europe. European Sociological Review, 35, 116‐132.
  • Protsch, P. (2017). Getting a foot in the door: How organisational characteristics shape recruitment decisions in the dual apprenticeship system. Journal of Education and Work, 30, 585-598.
  • Protsch, P. und Solga H. (2017). Going across Europe for an Apprenticeship. A factorial survey experiment on employers’ hiring preferences in Germany. Journal of European Social Policy, 27, 387-399.
  • Dumont, H., Protsch P., Jansen, M. und Becker, M. (2017). Fish swimming into the ocean: How tracking relates to students’ self‐beliefs and school disengagement at the end of schooling. Journal of Educational Psychology, 109, 855-870.
  • Protsch, P. und Solga, H. (2015). How Employers Use Signals of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills at Labor Market Entry. Insights from Field Experiments. European Sociological Review, 31, 521–532.
  • Protsch, P. (2014). Segmentierte Ausbildungsmärkte. Berufliche Chancen von Hauptschülerinnen und Hauptschülern im Wandel. Opladen: Budrich UniPress