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Postdoc Vincent Ramos

Research Profile

Social Demography I Labor Market Institutions I Social Stratification I Applied Quantitative Methods

My research interests thread two domains: (i) social stratification and social demography and (ii) labor market institutions. I am specifically interested in workers’ socio-demographic responses to employment uncertainty and mobilization responses to insufficiency and discontent. I employ a range of quantitative methods (descriptive, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs) on both representative surveys and novel collected data, focusing on country-specific contexts. At the MWI, I work within the ERC-SOCDEBT project, led by Nora Waitkus, where I lead projects around debt accumulation over the life course and across population subgroups. 

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Selected Publications

  • Ramos, V. & Berrington, A. (2026). Employment Stability and Social Origin: Cumulative Advantages in Young Adults’ Homeownership and Financial Asset Accumulation. Social Science Research, 103369
  • Ramos, V. & Berrington, A. (2026). Labour Market Insecurity and Parental Coresidence in the UK: Heterogeneities by Parental Class and Age. European Sociological Review 
  • Ramos, V. & Radoc, B. (2026). The Chains that Bind? Restrictive Covenants and Labor Market Entrants’ Perceived Occupational Mobility. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
  • Ramos, V. (2026). Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves in Philippine Collective Bargaining Agreements, British Journal of Industrial Relations 
  • Ramos, V., Kreyenfeld, M. Alonso Perez, E., Gellert, P., Heisig, J., & O’Sullivan, J. (2025). Future Caregiving Responsibilities, Employment Uncertainties, and Expected Childbearing Behavior: Survey Experimental Evidence from Germany. Population Research and Policy Review, 44(5), 1-48.
  • Ramos, V. (2024). Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines. Work, Employment and Society, 38(5), 1197-1222.
  • Ramos, V. & Vital, M. (2025). Research Note: Merry Now, Marry Later? Initial Labor Market Conditions and Marital Intentions in the Philippines. Journal of Family Research, 37, 307–317. 
  • Ramos, V., Jopson, E., & Suguitan, E. (2026). Local Labor Market Concentration and Union Activity in the Philippines: Descriptive Estimates and Implications. Philippine Review of Economics, 63(1) 67-99. 
  • Ramos, V. & Suguitan, E. (2024). The Incomplete Leap: On the Transition from Union Registration to the First Collective Agreement. Industrial Relations Journal
  • Ramos, V. (2024). Initial Labor Market Conditions and Subsequent Fertility Behavior. GENUS, 80(1), 1-22.

CV

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YearPosition / DegreeLinks
YearPosition / DegreeLinks
Since 10/2022
Postdoc at the Centre for Social Investment (CSI)
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12/2020 – 09/2022
Postdoc at the Heidelberg Group for Organization Studies (heiGOS)

https://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/organisationssoziologie/

2016 – 2020
Managing director, Eurozine

https://www.eurozine.com/

2013 – 2016
PR and project officer (history and science) at the Polish Institute, Vienna
2009 – 2012
University assistant and doctoral candidate at the Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research, University of Vienna. Dissertation (Dr. phil.) in History, completed in June 2018
2004 – 2009
Student assistant at the Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, Heidelberg, and at the Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg (Prof. Helmut Anheier, Dr. Michael Hölscher)
2003 – 2009
Magister Artium (M.A.) in Sociology, History and Slavic Philology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Thesis: „Der dritte Sektor in Polen nach 1989“ (The third sector in Poland after 1989)

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