Educational and Social Mobility
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Georg Kanitsar joined the IHS in February 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (Uni Vienna, 2018) and an M.Sc. in Economics (Uni Vienna, 2013). Before his current appointment, he held positions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Institute for Sociology) and the University of Vienna (Department of Economic Sociology).
His current research focuses on educational and social mobility among children of immigrants. This research is embedded into a broader interest in the fields of educational inequality, social stratification, social trust, and immigrant integration. He has expertise in lab, field, and online experiments as well as in survey research. He is also part of the scientific coordination of the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel, a register-based household panel first implemented in 2023.
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Selected publications:
Kanitsar, Georg. 2024. The Same Social Elevator? Intergenerational Class Mobility of Second-Generation Immigrants Across Europe. European Sociological Review.
Kanitsar, Georg. 2023. Leaving the Bike Unlocked: Trust Discrimination in Inter-Ethnic Encounters. European Sociological Review.
Kanitsar, Georg. 2022. The Inequality-Trust Nexus Revisited: At What Level of Aggregation Does Income Inequality Matter for Social Trust? Social Indicators Research.