Assistant Professorship for Sociology of the Welfarestate

The Team of the Assistant Professorship for Sociology of the Welfarestate focusses in its research on the issues of the welfare state, social policy, life courses and political attitudes as well as on old-age provision and nursing care systems in an international comparative perspective. Ongoing projects are “Welfare state reform support from below: linking individual attitudes and organized interests in Europe” at the Research Centre “Political Economy of Reforms” as well as “Women’s Late Careers in Europe and the USA—Employment Chances and Transitions Between Care-Giving and Retirement”, “Employment in the Early Phase of the Corona Crisis in Germany” and “Comparing the Coordination of Elderly Care Services in European Welfare States: How Organizational Actors Respond to Marketization Policies” at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Since 2019, the young researchers’ group “Integration of migrants and attitudes towards the welfare state (IMES)” is working in cooperation with the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW).