In industrialized societies, participation in social life is closely linked to income from work and thus access to the labor market. The Master module "Labor Market and Inequality" starts with the question which occupational structures characterize the German and European labor market and where dividing lines between "outsiders" and "insiders" on the labor market run. This is partcularly relevant for the egalitarian employment regimes of Europe. In the first part of the seminar, the focus will be on approaches to and empirical research on the "inequality of income opportunities". Afterwards, interrelations between selected social groups (long-term unemployed, young people, migrants and women) and relevant institutional conditions (social security systems and activation policies, education systems and protection clauses, family policies, technological developments and social redistribution policies) are discussed (Part 2).
In the complementary workshop, selected topics of the seminar will be expanded. Students will familiarize themselves with relevant data sets and carry out their own empirical analyses using the EU-SILC or other comparative datasets.
In industrialized societies, participation in social life is closely linked to income from work and thus access to the labor market. The Master module "Labor Market and Inequality" starts with the question which occupational structures characterize the German and European labor market and where dividing lines between "outsiders" and "insiders" on the labor market run. This is partcularly relevant for the egalitarian employment regimes of Europe. In the first part of the seminar, the focus will be on approaches to and empirical research on the "inequality of income opportunities". Afterwards, interrelations between selected social groups (long-term unemployed, young people, migrants and women) and relevant institutional conditions (social security systems and activation policies, education systems and protection clauses, family policies, technological developments and social redistribution policies) are discussed (Part 2).
In the complementary workshop, selected topics of the seminar will be expanded. Students will familiarize themselves with relevant data sets and carry out their own empirical analyses using the EU-SILC or other comparative datasets.
Nach Abschluss des Moduls sind die Studierenden in der Lage, den Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsmarktprozessen und Strukturen sozialer Ungleichheit zu analysieren.
Das Master-Seminar vermittelt drei Kernkompetenzen:
Interdisziplinäre theoretische Kenntnisse sowie die Fähigkeit, verschiedene Theorieansätze gegeneinander abzuwägen und miteinander zu verknüpfen;
Fundierte empirische Kenntnisse aus den Bereichen Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitsmarktreformen und soziale Ungleichheit;
Die Fähigkeit zur methodischen und gesellschaftlichen Verortung von empirischen Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema Arbeitsmarkt und Ungleichheit.
