• Weiss Felix, Anja Grauenhorst (2012): More education - smaller returns? Education to work transitions with and without vocational eucation, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Neugebauer Martin (2012): The Bologna Process and Social Inequality in Higher Education in Germany: A Pseudo-Panel Analysis, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Roth Tobias (2012): Effects of Social Networks on Finding an Apprenticeship in the German Vocational Training System, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Roth Tobias (2012): Social Networks, Attitudes and Expectations: Do Attitudes Towards Education Mediate the Relationship Between Social Networks and Parental Expectations?, [ International Sociological Association RC28 on Social Stratification and Social Mobility Spring Meeting, Hong Kong, ]

• Gebel Michael, Johannes Giesecke (2012): Flexibilization and inequality trends: The impact of employment protection reforms on youths’ non-employment and temporary employment risks in Europe, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Göbel Claudia, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Thomas Bahle, Vanessa Hubl (2012): Sozialer Schutz und Arbeitsmarktintegration familiärer Risikogruppen. Politiken und Lebenslagen im europäischen Vergleich, [ Beiratssitzung der Projekte zur HBS-Ausschreibung "Sozialstaaten und europäische Reformprozesse im Vergleich", WZB Berlin, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2012): Comparing Welfare State Regimes: Are Typologies an Ideal or Realistic Strategy?, [ ESPAnet Conference, Edinburgh, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2012): Shifting Responsibilities in Western European Pension Systems, [ ISA RC19 Conference, Oslo, ]

• Gebel Michael (2012): Atypische Beschäftigung als Sprungbrett aus Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut?, [ Invited lecture at IAB Colloquium, Nürnberg, ]

• Gebel Michael (2012): Does temporary employment mitigate the scar effects of unemployment? A cross-country comparison based on British, German and Swiss panel data, [ 10th international SOEP user conference, Berlin, ]

• Gebel Michael (2012): Exclusion and flexibilization in youth labour markets: The role of institutional and structural variation across Europe., [ 19th International Conference for Europeanists on "A Europe of Diversities", Boston, ]

• Heyne Stefanie (2012): Unemployment and Income Dynamics in a Life-Course Perspective, [ Berlin Summer School in Social Science: Linking Theory and Empirical Research, Berlin, ]

• Heyne Stefanie, Michael Gebel (2012): Where gender matters: school-to-home and school-to-work transition in Muslim Middle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) countries, [ 20th annual workshop TIY: Transition in Youth: A 20 Year Perspective, Nijmegen, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2012): The True European Voter: APC Presentation IS0806 (Year 3), [ 6th ISCH Annual Progress Conference, Lyon, ]

• Hörisch Felix (2012): Vom produzierenden Gewerbe zum Finanzmarktkapitalismus?!, [ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Frankfurt, ]

• Debus Marc, Jochen Müller (2012): Koalitionsaussagen, Policy-Positionen der Landesparteien oder die Bundespolitik: Welche Faktoren bestimmen die Koalitionspräferenzen der Wähler in den Bundesländern von 1990 bis 2009?, [ Jubiläumstagung 25 Jahre DVPW-Arbeitskreis „Wahlen und Politische Einstellungen“, Frankfurt, ]

• Müller Jochen, Christian Stecker (2012): Dimensionality and legislative voting. Evidence from the German Länder, [ 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen, ]

• Däubler Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller (2012): Battle over bases: German military reform between partisan interests and economic constraints, [ European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Berlin, ]

• Schulz Benjamin (2012): Ethnic Networks, Social Capital and the Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Germany, [ Second ISA Forum of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, ]

• Schulz Benjamin (2012): Disentangling Ethnic and Social Capital Mechanisms: New Chances through NEPS Data, [ RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, University of Sydney, ]

• Weiss Felix, Marita Jacob (2012): You snooze, you lose? Returns to interrupted college education in the U.S., [ ISA RC28 Summer Meeting on “Labor Market and Educational Transitions in Uncertain Times”, Charlottesville, VA, ]

• Krewel Mona, Julia Partheymüller (2012): Rethinking the Level of Analysis – A Call for Shifting the Perspective of Campaign Effects Research to Multi-Level Analysis, [ RC33 Eight International Conference on Social Science Methodology, University of Sydney, Sydney, ]

• Schneider Ellen (2012): Landtagsabgeordnete und EU-Entscheidungsprozesse, [ Doktorandenworkshop "Internationale Beziehungen" der LMU München, Kochel, ]

• Blumenstiel Jan Eric, Thomas Plischke (2012): Analyzing Intra-Personal Heterogeneity of Voter Decision-Making over Time, [ IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, ]

• Partheymüller Julia, Mona Krewel (2012): Campaign Coverage on Candidates and its Effect on Candidate Evaluations and Voting Behaviour, [ IPSA-XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, ]