Political Economy and the Welfare State
- Labor Market Policy
- Distributional Policy
- Social Policy
- Comparative National Institutional Systems
- Gender Regimes and Social Rights
- Policy Impact on Organizations and Quality of Work
Current Research Projects
Finalised Research Projects
- Sigrid Betzelt, Ingo Bode: PRoKita - Plural Role Conflicts and Collective Consciousness in Organised Childcare
- Martina Metzger, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Jennifer Pédussel Wu: Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts
- Martina Sproll: Gender Inequalities and Changing Modes of Social Reproduction
- Sigrid Betzelt, Andreas Albert, Ingo Bode, Sarina Parschick: EMOSOL Emotional regimes and solidarity in interaction work
- Sigrid Betzelt: Unemployed without Entitlements to Benefits
Published Master’s Thesis Projects
- Judith Waltl: Labour Market Barriers Beyond the Binary Gender Construct: Cis-normativity in the Labour Market. Working Paper 255/2025.
- Tugce Kilic: Does Sectoral Diversification Matter? The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Germany's Labor Market. Working Paper 253/2025.
- Fausto Favero, Political Economy of Labor Market Policies for Current Labor Market Transformations in Europe, Working Paper, No 180/2022
- Simona Bellini: EU Blue Card: a promising tool among labour migration policies? A comparative analysis of selected countries, IPE Working Paper 76/2016.
- Daphne Owers: From immigrants to fundamentalists –changing portrayals of Muslim identities in Europe, IPE Working Paper 52/2015.
- Cintia Balogh: International refugee law and the European Union’s refugee protection protocol: a study on the ius cogens norm of nonrefoulement, IPE Working Paper 49/2015.
- Thomas Obst: Income inequality and the welfare state -How redistributive is the public sector?, IPE Working Paper 29/2013.