Research projects at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
- Integration of Migrants and Attitudes towards the Welfare State
- Women's Late Careers in Europe and the USA—Employment Chances and Transitions Between Care-Giving and Retirement (completed)
- Employment in the Early Phase of the Corona Crisis in Germany (completed)
- Comparing the Coordination of Elderly Care Services in European Welfare States: How Organizational Actors Respond to Marketization Policies (completed)
- Crisis Corporatism or Corporatismus in Crisis? Social Concertation and Social pacts in Europe (completed)
Research projects at the Collaborative Research Centre “Political Economy of Reforms” (SFB 884)
- Welfare State Reform Support from Below: Linking Individual Attitudes and Organized Interests in Europe
- Welfare State Reform Support from Below: Linking Individual Attitudes and Organized Interests in Europe
Selected Publications
- Naumann, E., Brinkmann, M. M. & Möhring, K. (2024). The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany. Journal of European Social Policy, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231222840
- Möhring, K. & Teney, C. (2023). Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment. Acta Sociologica : AS, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993231163416
- Teney, C., Pietrantuono, G. & Möhring, K. (2023). Who supports whom? Citizens' support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(12), 2832–2853. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2022.2131885
- Bühler, B., Möhring, K. & Weiland, A. (2022). Assessing dissimilarity of employment history information from survey and administrative data using sequence analysis techniques. Quality & Quantity, 56(6), 4747–4774. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01333-9
- Cheng, C., Desvars-Larrive, A., Ebbinghaus, B., Hale, T., Howes, A., Lehner, L., Messerschmidt, L., Nika, A., Penson, S., Petherick, A., Xu, H., Zapf, A. J., Zhang, Y. & Zweig, S. A. (2022). Capturing the COVID-19 crisis through public health and social measures data science. Scientific Data, 9(Article 520), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01616-8
- Cornesse, C., Krieger, U., Sohnius, M.-L., Fikel, M., Friedel, S., Rettig, T., Wenz, A., Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M. & Blom, A. G. (2022). From German Internet Panel to Mannheim Corona Study: Adaptable probability-based online panel infrastructures during the pandemic. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society, 185(3), 773–797. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12749
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2022). Rentensysteme im Umbau: Herausforderungen und Reformwege der Alterssicherung in Europa. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte : APuZ, 72(20), 35–40.
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Lehner, L. (2022). Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. Transfer : European Review of Labour and Research, 28(1), 47–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589221079151
- Ebbinghaus, B., Lehner, L. & Naumann, E. (2022). Welfare state support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Change and continuity in public attitudes towards social policies in Germany. European Policy Analysis : EPA, 8(3), 297–311. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1152
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Weishaupt, J. T. (2022). Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: How crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes. Transfer : European Review of Labour and Research, 28(2), 181–194. https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589221086172
- Ehrlich, U., Kelle, N., Klaus, D. & Möhring, K. (2022). How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the wellbeing of family care-givers? A longitudinal study of older adults in Germany. Ageing and Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000873
- Möhring, K. & Weiland, A. (2022). Couples’ life courses and women’s income in later life: A multichannel sequence analysis of linked lives in Germany. European Sociological Review, 38(3), 371–388. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab048
- Weiland, A. (2022). Married mothers' bargaining power and their accrual of pension entitlements: evidence from East and West Germany. Work, Aging and Retirement, 8(3), 241–263. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waab009
- Blom, A. G. & Möhring, K. (2021). Soziale Ungleichheit in der Beschäftigungssituation während der frühen Phase der Coronakrise. Datenreport, 17, 476–483.
- Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Cornesse, C., Rettig, T., Fikel, M., Friedel, S., Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M. & Krieger, U. (2021). Barriers to the large-scale adoption of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app in Germany: Survey study. Journal of Medical Internet Research : JMIR, 23(3), e23362. https://doi.org/10.2196/23362
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2021). Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double-edged income effect of pension systems. Social Policy & Administration : SP&A, 55(3), 440–455. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12683
- Kuitto, K., Kuivalainen, S. & Möhring, K. (2021). Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction. Social Policy & Administration : SP&A, 55(3), 403–408. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12663
- Mata, J., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Möhring, K., Krieger, U., Friedel, S., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C., Blom, A. G. & Naumann, E. (2021). Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany. Social Science & Medicine, 287(Article 114333). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114333
- Möhring, K. (2021). The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective. Social Policy & Administration : SP&A, 55(3), 456–484. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12720
- Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Krieger, U., Friedel, S., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C. & Blom, A. G. (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family. European Societies, 23(Suppl. 1), S601–S617. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1833066
- Biegert, T. & Ebbinghaus, B. (2020). Accumulation or absorption? Changing disparities of household non-employment in Europe during the Great Recession. Socio-Economic Review, 20(1), 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaa003
- Blom, A. G., Cornesse, C., Friedel, S., Krieger, U., Fikel, M., Rettig, T., Wenz, A., Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Möhring, K., Naumann, E. & Reifenscheid, M. (2020). High-frequency and high-quality survey data collection: The Mannheim Corona study. Survey Research Methods : SRM, 14(2), 171–178. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7735
- Ehrlich, U., Möhring, K. & Drobnič, S. (2020). What comes after caring? The impact of family care on women's employment. Journal of Family Issues, 41(9), 1387–1419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19880934
- Möhring, K. & Teney, C. (2020). Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens' support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe. Comparative European Politics : CEP, 18(4), 560–589. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-019-00199-w
- Möhring, K., Weiland, A., Bühler, B. & Kuhn, K. (2020). Lebensläufe und Alterseinkommen von Frauen nach Familienstand – Ergebnisse aus SHARE-RV. Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 75(2), 198–210.
- Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Reifenscheid, M., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C. & Blom, A. G. (2020). COVID‐19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences. European Policy Analysis : EPA, 6(2), 191–202. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1091
- Weiland, A. & Möhring, K. (2020). Erwerbsverläufe von Paaren und Armutsrisiken in der Nacherwerbsphase in Europa. Sozialer Fortschritt, 69(10), 645–666. https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.69.10.645
- Dingemans, E. & Möhring, K. (2019). A life course perspective on working after retirement: What role does the work history play? Advances in Life Course Research, 39, 23–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.02.004
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2019). Multipillarisation remodelled: the role of interest organizations in British and German pension reforms. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(4), 521–539. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1574875
- Möhring, K., Teney, C. & Buss, C. (2019). Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens. Soziale Welt : SozW, 70(2), 121–143. https://doi.org/10.5771/0038-6073-2019-2-121
- Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Das Leben in Deutschland im Ausnahmezustand : Bericht zur Lage vom 20. März bis 30. Juni 2020. Mannheim.
- Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). The Mannheim Corona Study: Life in Germany in a state of emergency : Report for March 20 to June 30, 2020 ; English translation of the original report (in German). Mannheim.
- Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). The Mannheim Corona study: Life in Germany in a state of emergency : Report for March 20 to July 09, 2020. Mannheim.
- Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). The Mannheim Corona study: life in Germany in a state of emergency : report for March 20 to May 28, 2020, English translation of the original report (in German). Mannheim.
- Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Krieger, U., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Demokratische Kontrolle in der Corona-Krise. Mannheim.
- Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Krieger, U., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz politischer Maßnahmen und befürchtete Konsequenzen für die Wirtschaft. Mannheim.
- Lehrer, R., Juhl, S., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Krieger, U., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Die vier Phasen des Social Distancing in Deutschland. Mannheim.
- Möhring, K., Heinemann, F., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zum subjektiven Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko der Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Mannheim.
- Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zu Erwerbstätigkeit und Kinderbetreuung. Mannheim.
- Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zur Erwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland 20.3.-15.4.2020. Mannheim.
- Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., Weiland, A., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zur Nutzung und Akzeptanz von Homeoffice in Deutschland während des Corona-Lockdowns. Mannheim.
- Naumann, E., Mata, J., Reifenscheid, M., Möhring, K., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C. & Blom, A. G. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zum Angstempfinden in der Bevölkerung. Mannheim.
- Ebbinghaus, B., Nelson, K. & Nieuwenhuis, R. (2019). Poverty in old age. LIS Working Paper Series / Luxembourg Income Study, 777. Walferdange, Luxembourg: Cross-National Data Center.
- Bahle, T., Ariaans, M., Koch, K. & Wendt, C. (2023). Healthcare and elderly care in Europe : institutions, challenges, and solutions for better coordination . Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204070
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Weishaupt, J. T. (eds.) (2022). The role of social partners in managing Europe's great recession : crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? London ; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186144
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2023). Die Entzweiung der Siamesischen Zwillinge: Politische Entfremdung und Mitgliederschwund deutscher Gewerkschaften. In T. Faas, S. Huber, M. Krewel & S. Roßteutscher (eds.), Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie: Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (S. 355–378). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748915553-355
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2023). Pension governance in a globalising world. In C. Karner & D. Hofäcker (eds.), Research handbook on the sociology of globalization (S. 308–318). Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101571.00039
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Lee, K. (2023). From early retirement to later exit from work: Shifting towards active ageing. In D. Clegg & N. Durazzi (eds.), Handbook of labour market policy in advanced democracies (S. 295–308). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880887.00030
- Bahle, T. (2022). Mindestsicherung im europäischen Vergleich. In F. Blank, C. Schäfer & D. Spannagel (eds.), Grundsicherung weiterdenken (S. 245–264). Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455944-013
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Weishaupt, J. T. (2022). Introduction : Studying social concertation in Europe. In B. Ebbinghaus & J. T. Weishaupt (eds.), The role of social partners in managing Europe's great recession : crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? (S. 3–23). London ; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186144-2
- Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Krieger, U., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C., Naumann, E., Möhring, K. & Reifenscheid, M. (2022). Preferences for centralized decision-making in times of crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. In J. Sauermann, M. Tepe & M. Debus (eds.), Jahrbuch für Handlungs-und Entscheidungstheorie (Bd. 12, S. 1–27). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35878-5_1
- Bahle, T. & Wendt, C. (2021). Social assistance. In D. Béland, K. J. Morgan, H. Obinger & C. Pierson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the welfare state (2. ed., S. 624–640). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198828389.013.36
- Bender, B. & Ebbinghaus, B. (2021). When governments include social partners in crisis corportism : Comparing social concertation in Europe during the Great Recession. In B. Ebbinghaus & J. T. Weishaupt (eds.), The role of social partners in managing Europe's Great Recession : crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? (S. 24–50). London ; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186144-3
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2021). Unions and employers. In D. Béland, S. Leibfried, K. J. Morgan, H. Obinger & C. Pierson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the welfare state (2. ed., S. 278–297). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198828389.013.16
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Weishaupt, J. T. (2021). Postscript : Social partnership facing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. In B. Ebbinghaus & J. T. Weishaupt (eds.), The role of social partners in managing Europe's Great Recession : crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? (S. 279–293). London ; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186144-17
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Weishaupt, J. T. (2021). Social concertation at a crossroad : Crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? In B. Ebbinghaus & J. T. Weishaupt (eds.), The role of social partners in managing Europe's Great Recession : crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? (S. 262–278). London ; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186144-16
- Bender, B. & Ebbinghaus, B. (2020). Social concertation in Europe during the Great Recession: A fsQCA-study of social partner involvement. In R. Careja (eds.), The European Social Model under pressure : liber amicorum in honour of Klaus Armingeon (S. 33–50). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27043-8_3
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2020). Chapter 22: Changing work and welfare: Unemployment and labour market policies. In N. Ellison & T. Haux (eds.), Handbook on society and social policy (S. 291–305). Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788113526.00030
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2020). Uncertain futures of post-Brexit pensions: Three paradoxical implications. In M. Donoghue & M. Kuisma (eds.), Whither social rights in (post-)Brexit Europe? : opportunities and challenges (S. 69–76). Berlin ; London: Social Europe Publishing, Friedrich-Ebert-Stifung.
- Ebbinghaus, B. & Naumann, E. (2020). The legitimacy of public pensions in an ageing Europe: Changes in subjective evaluations and policy preferences, 2008–2016. In T. Laenen, B. Meuleman & W. van Oorschot (eds.), Welfare state legitimacy in times of crisis and austerity : between continuity and change (S. 159–176). Cheltenham , Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976305.00020
- Ebbinghaus, B., Nelson, K. & Nieuwenhuis, R. (2020). Poverty in old age. In B. Greve (eds.), Routledge international handbook of poverty (S. 256–267). London ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058103-20
- Wendt, C. & Bahle, T. (2020). Sozialpolitik. In H. Joas & S. Mau (eds.), Lehrbuch der Soziologie (4. ed., S. 549–585). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
- Bahle, T. (2019). Soziale Mindestsicherung. In H. Obinger (eds.), Handbuch Sozialpolitik (S. 761–782). Wiesbaden, Ger,amy: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22803-3_37
- Ebbinghaus, B. (2019). Machtressourcentheorie und Korporatismusansatz. In H. Obinger & M. G. Schmidt (eds.), Handbuch Sozialpolitik (S. 117–138). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22803-3_7
- Bender, B. (2020). Politisch-ökonomische Konfliktlinien im sich wandelnden Wohlfahrtsstaat : Positionierung deutscher Interessenverbände von 2000–2014. [Doctoral dissertation, Universität Mannheim]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31825-3
- Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Reifenscheid, M., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M. & Cornesse, C. (2020). Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Das Leben in Deutschland im Ausnahmezustand : Bericht zur Lage vom 20. März bis 29. April 2020.