Research topics
- International comparative analysis of structures, institutions, and dynamics of the labor market, their formation conditions and socio-economic consequences
- Sociology of work and life course, in particular youth labor markets
- Experimental research in decision processes and voting behavior in committees and networks
- Organizational structures of labor market associations
- Structures and processes of public employment
- Methodological research on experimental methods and international comparative analysis
Research program
Current externally funded projects
- Austrian Corona Panel Project (10/2020-03/2023), FWF
- Distributive Preferences and Need-Based Justice in Networks (2018-06/2022), FOR2104
Completed projects
- Analysis of Crisis Communication and Handling Effect (03-05/2020), WWTF
- X-Hub: An Infrastructure for the Multi-Disciplinary Secondary Use from Experimental Studies in Economics and Social Sciences (05/2016-04/2019), GESIS
- Women in Leadership Positions in Austria (11/2018-01/2020), WKO
- Labor Market Integration of Refugees in Austria - A Longitudinal Analysis (2016-2019)
- Rotating Module "Justice and Fairness in Europe", European Social Survey Round 9 (2018-2019)
- The social embeddedness of enterprise foundations - Conditions for success and challenges from a subjective perspective (11/2018-10/2019), self-financing
- Rotating Module "Justice and Fairness in Europe", European Social Survey Round 9 (2018)
- Distributive Preferences and Need-Based Justice in Networks (2015-2018) FOR2104
- Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship: Family Values and Youth Unemployment in Europe (CUPESSE) (2014-2018)
- Soziale Hintergründe und Auswirkungen von Jugendarbeitslosigkeit in Wien (2014-2018); BMASK
- Variability and Stability in the Mixed Substandard in Extensive and Continuous Language Contact: The Surzyk between Ukrainian and Russian in the Ukraine (2014-2016)
- Identity Construction of Young Adults in a Postsocialist Transformation Society: The Case of Belarus (2013-2016)
- Differences in Gender Relations in Trade Unions (2013-2015)
- Social Dimensions of Financial Exclusion (2012-2014)
- Transformation of the State as Employer: Public Employees' Role Perception and their Interest Representation in International Comparison (2008-2014)
- Die Trasjanka in Weißrussland - eine Mischvarietät als Produkt des weißrussisch-russischen Sprachkontakts (2008-2012)
- Causal Case Study Analysis (2008-2009)
- Collective Interest Associations and Knowledge Workers (2007-2009)
- Markteffizienz und Arbeitnehmermitspracherechte (2006-2009)
- Arbeitsgesellschaft und industrielle Demokratie in Europa (2004-2006)
- Flexible Entgeltsysteme, Arbeitsbeziehungen und Tarifsystem (2004-2007)
- Die Bestimmungsfaktoren des Lohnverhandlungssystems (2003-2006)
- European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
- National corporate cultures and international competitiveness strategies - The Challenge of Globalisation for European SMEs (2000-2003)
- Economy, Society and Politics in the "New" Europe: Economic Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Democracy (1997-2000)
- Seedfinancing: International vergleichende Evaluierung aus ökonomischer und soziologischer Perspektive 1996
- Arbeitsbeziehungen, wirtschaftliche Internationalisierung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (1994-1997)
- Collective Bargaining Coverage (1992-1994)