Dipl.-Soz. Sebastian Neumeyer

Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education | Educational Decisions and Social Inequality
Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education | Scholarships: profiles of supported students, distribution and benefits in the German higher education context

Vita

09/2018 – Today
Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories

Research interests

  • Educational Inequality
  • Occupational Inequalities
  • Higher Education

Publications

2025

Neumeyer, S. (2025). When the first degree isn’t enough - Rational choice and social inequality in graduate enrollment in Germany. Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01426-y
Pietrzyk, I., & Neumeyer, S. (2025). Der bemerkenswerte Bildungsaufstieg von Studierenden mit Migrationshintergrund: Ein Streben nach Statusmaximierung. In C. Möller, F. Blome, & J. Reuter (Hrsg.), Sozialer Aufstieg durch Bildung? Theoretische Zugänge, empirische Einsichten (S. 122-143). Beltz Juventa. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:32269

2024

Neumeyer, S., & Will, G. (2024). Secondary ethnic effects in the transition to higher education in Germany and their explanations. Research in Higher Education, 65, 1514-1539. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-024-09791-w
Pietrzyk, I., Neumeyer, S., & Erdmann, M. (2024). Unerwartete Role Models. Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund können zu Vorbildern in Sachen Bildung werden. WZB-Mitteilungen, 3(185), 17-20. https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2024/f-26464.pdf
Schmaus, M., Olczyk, M., Neumeyer, S., & Will, G. (2024). High realistic aspirations – do normative pressures overthrow rational calculations? Applying the model of frame selection to the educational aspirations of immigrant and majority students in Germany. Rationality and Society, 36(1), 34-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631231208989

2023

Neumeyer, S., & Pietrzyk, I. (2023). Done with a degree? Immigration-specific disparities among holders of bachelor’s degrees in the transition to graduate studies in Germany. Frontiers in Sociology, 8, Article 1204164. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1204164

2022

Neumeyer, S. (2022). Wie offen sind strukturierte Promotionen wirklich? Anmerkungen zum Vergleich sozialer Ungleichheiten in einem Beitrag von Susanne de Vogel. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 74(1), 95–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-022-00817-8
Neumeyer, S., Olczyk, M., Schmaus, M., & Will, G. (2022). Reducing or widening the gap? How the educational aspirations and expectations of Turkish and majority families develop during lower secondary education in Germany. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 74(2), 259–285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-022-00844-5

2021

Dochow, S., & Neumeyer, S. (2021). An investigation of the causal effect of educational expectations on school performance: Behavioral consequences, time-stable confounding, or reciprocal causality? Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 71, Article 100579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100579

2019

Neumeyer, S., & Pietrzyk, I. (2019). Hochschulabsolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund am Übergang in die Promotion. Soziale Welt, 70(4), 435–473. https://doi.org/10.5771/0038-6073-2019-4-435

2018

Neumeyer, S., & Alesi, B. (2018). Soziale Ungleichheiten nach Studienabschluss? Wie sich die Bildungsherkunft auf weitere Bildungsübergänge und den erfolgreichen Berufseinstieg von Hochschulabsolventen auswirkt (INCHER Working Paper No. 8). INCHER-Kassel. https://doi.org/10.17906/INCHER.0001

Selected presentations and lectures

2026

Haas, C., & Neumeyer, S. (2026, June 15 - 17). Hierarchies of excellence: The stratification of merit-based student funding in German higher education [Paper presentation]. 2026 Annual Conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Dublin, Ireland. https://www.ecsr2026.net/
Neumeyer, S., & Haas, C. (2026, June 23 - 24). Access to merit scholarships for higher education students in Germany. Development of inequalities in a time of expansion and differentiation [Poster presentation]. 7th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM), Nuremberg, Germany. https://eveeno.com/helm-2026