Dr. Kerstin Ostermann

ongoing Projects

• Unequal trajectories: Spatial dynamics in refugees multidimensional integration
• Prüfung von neuen Methoden zur Typisierung regionaler Arbeitsmärkte
• The Girl Next Door? Childhood Cross-Group Exposure and Ethnic Inter-Marriage
• Labeled unemployed: How neighborhood unemployment affects the individual s stigma-consciousness
• The Effect of High-Status Inflows on Neighborhood Gentrification - Using Bohemians as Instrument
• Empowering Through Proximity: How female neighbors serve as network ties role models for refugee women
• Beyond proximity: Clustering of Organic Neighborhoods Using a Two-Staged Unsupervised Learning Approach
• From Mobility Booster to Barrier: How the neighborhood context mitigates the effect of poor labor market opportunities

finished Projects

• The Regional Distribution of Dropouts in Germany
• The Impact of the EU's Eastern Enlargement on Local Labor Markets in German Border Regions
• GridAB: Income Segregation in Neighborhoods and Its Impact on Refugees Integration into the German Labor Market
• GridAB: Displacement and Gentrification
• Stratified Scars: Social inequality in the labor market consequences of upper secondary dropout
• How can employers signal trustworthiness to employees: Determinants of employer reputation
• Geo-data in Labor Market Research: Trends, Potentials and Perspectives
• Analyzing local labor markets with geo-spatial online job vacancy data
• Geodata in Labor Market Research: Trends, Potentials and Perspectives
• Segregation und regional Mobilität - Analyse mit feinräumigen Geodaten
• Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households - A cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators.

• Ausbildungsabbrüche im regionalen Vergleich: Die Schere geht immer weiter auseinander (Serie "Arbeitskräftesicherung")

  Ostermann, K. (2025): Ausbildungsabbrüche im regionalen Vergleich: Die Schere geht immer weiter auseinander (Serie "Arbeitskräftesicherung"). In: IAB-Forum No. 07.01.2025 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250107.01

• Small-scale Analyses of Urban Neighborhoods: Wage inequality is lower in East Germany than in West Germany

  Ostermann, K. & Wolf, K. (2023): Kleinräumige Analysen innerhalb deutscher Städte: Die Lohnungleichheit ist in ostdeutschen Nachbarschaften kleiner als in westdeutschen. (IAB-Kurzbericht 9/2023), Nürnberg, 8 p. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2309

• Geodata in labor market research: trends, potentials and perspectives

  Ostermann, K., Eppelsheimer, J., Gläser, N., Haller, P. & Oertel, M. (2022): Geodata in labor market research: trends, potentials and perspectives. In: Journal for labour market research, Vol. 56. DOI:10.1186/s12651-022-00310-x

• Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households - A cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators

  Kühnle, D., Oberfichtner, M. & Ostermann, K. (2021): Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households - A cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators. In: Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 36, No. 7, p. 1065-1073. DOI:10.1002/jae.2853

• How Can Employers Signal Trustworthiness to Job Seekers? Determinants of Employer Reputation

  Abraham, M., Gniza, J. & Ostermann, K. (2021): How Can Employers Signal Trustworthiness to Job Seekers? Determinants of Employer Reputation. In: I. Krumpal, W.Raub, A. Tutić (eds) (2021): Rationality in Social Science, Wiesbaden, Springer VS p. 269-292. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-33536-6_13

• Aktuelle Studienformen im Vergleich: Ein duales Studium begünstigt den Berufseinstieg

  Ostermann, K. & Patzina, A. (2019): Aktuelle Studienformen im Vergleich: Ein duales Studium begünstigt den Berufseinstieg. (IAB-Kurzbericht 25/2019), Nürnberg, 8 p.