• Johnston Richard, Julia Partheymüller, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2012): Activation of fundamentals in German campaigns, [ Authors’ conference of "Voters on the move or on the run?", Berlin, ]

• Bergmann Michael, Julia Partheymüller (2012): Ignore, Weight, or Impute? How to Deal with Panel Attrition in Electoral Research, [ Workshop "Change in Political Attitudes: Panels and Experiments", Barcelona, ]

• Hörisch Felix, Jakob Weber (2012): Capitalizing the Crisis? Explanatory factors for the design of short-time work across OECD-countries, [ 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen, ]

• Hubl Vanessa (2012): The duration of household nonemployment spells in the United Kingdom and Germany: How do individual, structural and policy factors interact?, [ ECSR, EQUALSOC & University of Trento Joint Summer School on Inequality and the Life Course, Trento, ]

• Biegert Thomas (2012): Institutions and Labor Market Transitions: Leaving Non-employment in the United Kingdom and Germany, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Biegert Thomas (2012): Transitions out of Non-employment in the United Kingdom and Germany: Who Leaves and Where Do They Go?, [ 10th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Edinburgh, ]

• Popa Sebastian Adrian (2012): Progress report on the TEV macro- data, [ COST Action IS0806: 5th Management Committee Meeting and Working Groups Meeting, Institue of international Relations and Political Science, Vilnius, ]

• Leszczensky Lars, Benjamin Schulz (2012): Intergenerationaler Wandel ethnischer Identifikationen? Die Bedeutung der sozialen Einbettung von Migranten, [ Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bochum, ]

• Leszczensky Lars, Benjamin Schulz (2012): Ethnic Network Composition and National Identification of Young Immigrants in Germany, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Dollmann Jörg, Frida Rudolphi (2012): Classroom Composition and Achievement: Do Contexts or Friends Matter More?, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Schneider Ellen (2012): German Regional Parliamentarians and European Politics, [ Sixth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, ECPR Standing Group on the EU, Tampere, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2012): The Privatization of Pensions in Europe facing the Crisis, [ "Finance et protection sociale" Workshop, Sciences Po, Paris, ]

• Salikutluk Zerrin (2012): Das Aspirationsparadox von Migranten - Ein Vergleich der Aspirationshöhe von Eltern und Jugendlichen in einheimischen und Migrantenfamilien in Deutschland, [ 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bochum, ]

• 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): Arm durch Arbeitslosigkeit? Einkommensverluste und Armut im Kontext der Hartz-Reformen, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 41, 6, pp. 418-434.