Bernhard Ebbinghaus
German sociologist
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Bernhard Ebbinghaus's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Mannheim
- Masters Political Science University of Mannheim
- Bachelors Political Science University of Mannheim
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bernhard Ebbinghaus is a German sociologist and comparative social policy expert at the University of Mannheim. Biography Ebbinghaus was born in 1961 in Stuttgart. He studied sociology at the University of Mannheim and was a Fulbright student at the New School for Social Research in 1984/85. Following a year at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Européennes in Geneva, he was a doctoral student at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy , where he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Labour Unity in Union Diversity: Trade Unions and Social Cleavages in Western Europe, 1890-1989 . Returning to Mannheim, Ebbinghaus taught sociology and coordinated an international research project on trade unions in Europe at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research . From 1997 until 2004, he was Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and completed his Habilitation thesis in sociology at the University of Cologne in 2003. He was John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University , Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , and Interim Professor at the University of Jena, Germany . Ebbinghaus was Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim from 2004 until 2016, where he was founding director of the Doctoral Center for the Social and Behavioral Studies of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences . Most recently, he was Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research , one of the largest university-based social science research institutes in Germany. From 2017 until 2021 Ebbinghaus was Professor of Social Policy, Head of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Ebbingaus returned to the Chair of Macrosociology at University of Mannheim in 2022. He is a specialist of comparative social policy, analyzing the reform processes of welfare states in Europe and other OECD countries. Since November 2021 Professor Ebbinghaus is member of the European Commission’s High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU.
Bernhard Ebbinghaus's Published Works
Published Works
- Trade unions in Western Europe since 1945 (2000) (411)
- When Institutions Matter - Union growth and Decline in Western Europe (1999) (372)
- Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA (2006) (313)
- Striking deals: concertation in the reform of continental European welfare states (2000) (216)
- The role of unions in the twenty-first century (2001) (192)
- Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA (2001) (187)
- The Varieties of Pension Governance: Pension Privatization in Europe (2011) (185)
- Brands and Branding (2003) (183)
- Can Path Dependence Explain Institutional Change? Two Approaches Applied to Welfare State Reform (2005) (179)
- When Less is More (2005) (154)
- Social capital, ‘Ghent’ and workplace contexts matter: Comparing union membership in Europe (2011) (105)
- The Privatization and Marketization of Pensions in Europe: A Double Transformation Facing the Crisis (2015) (102)
- Trade Unions' Changing Role: Membership Erosion, Organisational Reform, and Social Partnership in Europe (2002) (102)
- Comparing Welfare State Regimes: Are Typologies an Ideal or Realistic Strategy? 1 (2012) (93)
- Reversing Early Retirement in Advanced Welfare Economies: A Paradigm Shift to Overcome Push and Pull Factors (2013) (90)
- Introduction: Causes, consequences and cures of union decline (2011) (84)
- Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005 (2007) (76)
- Does a European Social Model Exist and Can It Survive (1999) (74)
- The Siamese Twins: Citizenship Rights, Cleavage Formation, and Party-Union Relations in Western Europe (1995) (70)
- The Varieties of Pension Governance (2011) (65)
- When less is more: selection problems in large-N and small-N cross-national comparisons (2006) (58)
- Trade union movements in post-industrial welfare states: Opening up to new social interests? (2006) (56)
- Introduction: Studying Varieties of Welfare Capitalism (2001) (56)
- Where Have All the Members Gone (2000) (48)
- Any Way Out of "Exit from Work"?: Reversing the Entrenched Pathways of Early Retirement (2000) (44)
- Pushed out prematurely? Comparing objectively forced exits and subjective assessments of involuntary retirement across Europe (2015) (40)
- The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From path dependence to path departure (2011) (37)
- Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems (2021) (36)
- Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 (Reeks: The Societies of Europe) (2000) (35)
- Taming pension fund capitalism in Europe: collective and state regulation in times of crisis (2011) (35)
- The role of trade unions in European pension reforms: From ‘old’ to ‘new’ politics? (2011) (31)
- Shifting responsibilities in Western European pension systems: What future for social models? (2012) (31)
- Europe’s Transformations Towards a Renewed Pension System (2012) (29)
- Ever larger unions: organisational restructuring and its impact on union confederations (2003) (29)
- Europe Through the Looking-Glass: Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives (1998) (27)
- European Rigidity Versus American Flexibility? The Institutional Adaptability of Collective Bargaining (2005) (26)
- The public-private pension mix and old age income inequality in Europe (2011) (26)
- From Means to Ends: Linking Wage Moderation and Social Policy Reform (2000) (25)
- The Changing Union and Bargaining Landscape: Union Concentration and Collective Bargaining Trends (2004) (23)
- A Comparative Profile (2000) (21)
- Making Deservingness of the Unemployed Conditional: Changes in Public Support for the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits (2017) (20)
- European Labor and Transnational Solidarity. Challenges, Pathways and Barriers (1996) (19)
- Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below (2018) (19)
- Germany: Departing from Bismarckian public pension (2010) (19)
- Labour unity in union diversity : trade unions and social cleavages in Western Europe, 1890-1989 (1993) (19)
- The role of tripartite concertation in the reform of the welfare state (1999) (18)
- The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe (2010) (18)
- Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe (2011) (18)
- When Labour and Capital Collude: The Varieties of Welfare Capitalism and Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 00.4, 2000 (2000) (16)
- Welfare and Employment in a United Europe edited by Giuseppe Bertola, Tito Boeri, and Guiseppe Nicoletti (2002) (16)
- Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe (2022) (14)
- Arbeitspapiere When Institutions Matter : Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe , 1950-95 (1998) (14)
- Multipillarisation remodelled: the role of interest organizations in British and German pension reforms (2019) (14)
- Unions and Employers (2010) (13)
- Governing pension fund capitalism in times of uncertainty (2012) (11)
- United Kingdom / Great Britain (2000) (11)
- Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2015) (10)
- The Politics of Pension Reform : Managing Interest Group Conflicts (2006) (10)
- Bargaining Structure and Macroeconomic Performance (2001) (9)
- The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe's Great Recession: Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis? (2021) (8)
- Globalization and Trade Unions: A Comparative-Historical Examination of the Convergence Thesis (2002) (8)
- International Policy Diffusion or Path Dependent Adaptation? The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe (2010) (7)
- The role of trade unions in pension policy-making and private pension governance in Europe (2017) (7)
- From path dependence to path departure in welfare reform analysis (2006) (7)
- Poverty in old age (2019) (7)
- Comparative Regime Analysis: Early Exit from Work in Europe, Japan, and the USA (2008) (6)
- Varieties of Welfare Capitalism: An Outlook on Future Directions of Research (2001) (6)
- The Future Prospects for Trade Unions in Europe (2001) (5)
- Reforming the Welfare State through "Old" or "New" Social Partnerships? (2001) (4)
- Welfare state support during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Change and continuity in public attitudes towards social policies in Germany (2022) (4)
- Introduction: Analysing Organized Interests and Public Opinion Towards Welfare Reforms (2018) (4)
- What Do Unions Do to the European Welfare States (2001) (3)
- European Labor Relations and Welfare-State Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of their „Elective Affinities“ (2018) (3)
- The Popularity of Pension and Unemployment Policies Revisited: The Erosion of Public Support in Britain and Germany (2018) (3)
- A Guide to the Handbook (2000) (3)
- Accumulation or absorption? Changing disparities of household non-employment in Europe during the Great Recession (2020) (3)
- Unions and Pensions: Theory, Evidence, and Implications (2001) (3)
- Protection, Production, and Partnership Institutions: From Institutional Affinities to Complementarities (2006) (3)
- Wage Bargaining, Union Power, and Economic Integration (2001) (2)
- Varieties of Pension Governance under Pressure: Funded Pensions in Western Europe (2012) (2)
- The Legitimacy of Public Pensions in an Ageing Europe: Changes in Subjective Evaluations and Policy Preferences, 2008–2016 (2020) (2)
- Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science (2022) (1)
- Social concertation in Europe during the Great Recession: A fsQCA-study of social partner involvement (2019) (1)
- Class, Union, or Party Allegiance? Comparing Pension Reform Preferences in Britain and Germany (2018) (1)
- Institutional Change in Advanced Democracies (2013) (1)
- Denmark: Country Profiles and Tables (2000) (1)
- Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes (2022) (1)
- Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems ‐ Edited by Bruno Palier and Claude Martin (2009) (1)
- Beveridge, Lord William Henry (2010) (1)
- Exit from Early Retirement: Paradigm Shifts, Policy Reversals, and Reform Obstacles (2006) (1)
- Reforming welfare states and changing capitalism : reversing early retirement regimes in Europe (2015) (1)
- Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe: Cross-national Variations in Participation and Social Inequality (2007) (1)
- Unions' Involvement in the Welfare State (2001) (1)
- Barnett, Samuel Augustus (2010) (0)
- Social concertation at a crossroad (2021) (0)
- Unions and Unemployment Insurance (2001) (0)
- United States Patent ( 19 ) Ebbinghaus et al . USOO 6137025 A 11 Patent Number : 6 , 137 , 025 ( 45 ) Date of Patent : Oct (2017) (0)
- Business and Employers’ Associations (2010) (0)
- "Old divides, recent approaches, future bridges: Studying European economic and social policy" (1997) (0)
- COMMENTARY: THE POLITICS OF ELECTIVE AFFINITIES (2001) (0)
- Business and Employer’s Associations (2010) (0)
- Changing work and welfare: unemployment and labour market policies (2020) (0)
- James W. Russell (2011), Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States , 2nd edn. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. £16.95, pp. 195, pbk. (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market (2007) (0)
- Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science (2022) (0)
- Conclusion: The Influence from Below—How Organized Interests and Public Attitudes Shape Welfare State Reforms in Europe (2018) (0)
- Reforming Welfare States and Changing Capitalism: Institutional Change and Reversing Early Retirement Regimes in Europe (2015) (0)
- Guillén, Mauro F.: The limits of convergence. Globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (2001) (0)
- Actor Constellations and Interest Coalitions: Labor, Employers, and the State (2006) (0)
- The Production‐Push Factors: The Political Economy of Labor Shedding (2006) (0)
- When governments include social partners in crisis corporatism (2021) (0)
- Ever Earlier Retirement: Comparing Employment Trajectories (2006) (0)
- Ageing Europe's Invisible Plight: Rising Income Inequality in Old Age Due to Employment Flexibilization and Pension Marketization (2016) (0)
- 1 Introduction : Studying Pension Privatization in Europe (2011) (0)
- Introduction: The Paradox of Early Exit from Work (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- Learning from Welfare Reforms: The Case of Public Pensions (2001) (0)
- Simone Scherger (ed.) (2015), Paid Work Beyond Pension Age: Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, £65.00, pp. 320, hbk. (2017) (0)
- Archive of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research Bernhard Ebbinghaus The Development of Trade Unions in Western Europe : Global Convergence or Cross-national Diversity ? (2013) (0)
- Reforming Welfare States and Changing Capitalism (2015) (0)
- The Reversal of Early Exit from Work in Ageing Societies: European Welfare State Reforms in Comparative Perspective (2016) (0)
- What futures for the European welfare states? [Chinesische Übersetzung] (2008) (0)
- Karl Hinrichs and Matteo Jessoula (eds.) (2012), Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £63.00, pp. 280, hbk. (2015) (0)
- Preferences in Britain and Germany (2019) (0)
- The Protection‐Pull Factors: Multiple Pathways to Early Exit (2006) (0)
- WHITHER SOCIAL RIGHTS IN (POST-) BREXIT EUROPE? (2020) (0)
- WHITHER SOCIAL RIGHTS IN (POST-) BREXIT EUROPE? (2020) (0)
- Wider Dimensions of Unions' Presence (2001) (0)
- Conclusion: From Path Dependence to Path Departure? (2006) (0)
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