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Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Bernhard Ebbinghaus

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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
38
Citations
8047
World Ranking
581
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Bernhard Ebbinghaus is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences, economics, and health professions, focusing notably on social policy, welfare studies, and related economic and demographic subjects.

The main fields of study for Ebbinghaus include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Health Professions

Within these broader areas, the subfields of study they have contributed to encompass:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Health Professions
  • Finance
  • Demography
  • Public Administration

Their work addresses a variety of main topics, including:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Recent papers authored by Bernhard Ebbinghaus cover diverse aspects of social policy and labor research:

  • Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double-edged income effect of pension systems, 2021, Social Policy and Administration
  • Cui bono - business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, 2022, Transfer European Review of Labour and Research
  • Welfare state support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Change and continuity in public attitudes towards social policies in Germany, 2022, European Policy Analysis
  • Accumulation or absorption? Changing disparities of household non-employment in Europe during the Great Recession, 2020, Socio-Economic Review
  • Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science, 2022, Scientific Data

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Transfer European Review of Labour and Research
  • European Policy Analysis
  • Social Policy and Administration
  • Socio-Economic Review
  • Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bernhard Ebbinghaus include:

  • Lukas Lehner
  • Elias Naumann
  • Benedikt Bender
  • Thomas Biegert
  • Cindy Cheng

Best Publications

  • Trade unions in Western Europe since 1945

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Jelle Visser;Jelle Visser

  • When Institutions Matter:Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950–1995

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Jelle Visser

  • Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Can Path Dependence Explain Institutional Change? Two Approaches Applied to Welfare State Reform

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Philip Manow;Philip Manow

  • Striking deals: concertation in the reform of continental European welfare states

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Anke Hassel

  • Can Path Dependence Explain Institutional Change? Two Approaches Applied to Welfare State Reform

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • When Less is More Selection Problems in Large- N and Small- N Cross-National Comparisons

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Trade Unions’ Changing Role : Membership Erosion, Organisational Reform, and Social Partnership in Europe

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • The role of unions in the twenty-first century

    Agar Brugiavini;Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Richard Freeman;Pietro Garibaldi

  • The Varieties of Pension Governance : Pension Privatization in Europe

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • The Privatization and Marketization of Pensions in Europe: A Double Transformation Facing the Crisis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Social capital, ‘Ghent’ and workplace contexts matter: Comparing union membership in Europe:

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Claudia Göbel;Sebastian Koos

  • When Institutions Matter - Union growth and Decline in Western Europe

    J. Visser;B. Ebbinghaus

  • Introduction: Studying Varieties of Welfare Capitalism

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Philip Manow;Philip Manow

  • The Politics of Old and New Social Policies

    Silja Häusermann;Giuliano Bonoli;David Natali

  • Die Mitgliederentwicklung deutscher Gewerkschaften im historischen und internationalen Vergleich

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Introduction: Causes, consequences and cures of union decline

    Alex J. Bryson;Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Jelle Visser

  • Any Way Out of "Exit from Work"?: Reversing the Entrenched Pathways of Early Retirement

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • The Siamese Twins: Citizenship Rights, Cleavage Formation, and Party-Union Relations in Western Europe

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Reversing Early Retirement in Advanced Welfare Economies: A Paradigm Shift to Overcome Push and Pull Factors

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Dirk Hofäcker

  • Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Does a European Social Model Exist and Can It Survive

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Trade union movements in post-industrial welfare states: Opening up to new social interests?

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • The Varieties of Pension Governance

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  • Pushed out prematurely? Comparing objectively forced exits and subjective assessments of involuntary retirement across Europe

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Jonas Radl

  • Varieties of Welfare Capitalism: An Outlook on Future Directions of Research

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus;Philip Manow;Philip Manow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jelle Visser
Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Philip Manow
Philip Manow University of Siegen
Daniele Checchi
Daniele Checchi University of Milan
Alison L. Booth
Alison L. Booth Australian National University
Michael C. Burda
Michael C. Burda Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bertil Holmlund
Bertil Holmlund Uppsala University
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Tito Boeri
Tito Boeri Bocconi University
Alex Bryson
Alex Bryson University College London

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