Tobias Wiß
Postdoctoral
political economy
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
Tobias Wiß is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School of Governance. He studied Political Science in Munich and Berlin and received his PhD from the University of Mannheim. His work has appeared in the Journal of European Social Policy, Social Policy & Administration, European Journal of Industrial Relations and Transfer.
Research Interest
His research areas include comparative welfare state analysis, political economy and social policy, particularly pensions and family policy. Before joining Hertie, Tobias was postdoctoral scholar at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), and visiting scholar at the University of Southampton, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) Vienna and the University of Warwick.
Publications
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Ebbinghaus , B. and Wiß, T. (2011) Taming pension fund capitalism in Europe: collective and state reg ulation in times of c risis. In : Transfer - The European Review of Labour and R esearch 17/1: 15 –28 [one of the top downloaded a rticles in Transfer in 2011].
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Wiß, T. (2012) Der Ausbau der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge: Soziale Ungleichheiten für Be schäftigte bei gleichzeitiger Wiederb elebung der Sozialpartner [The take off o f occupational pensions: social inequal ities for employees and revival of social p artners] . Sozialer For tschritt 61/7: 165 –172. http://ejournals.duncker -humblot.de/ doi/abs/10.3790/sfo.61.7.165
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Wiß, T. (2 012) Rentenprivatisierung in Bismarck -Ländern: Zur Rolle der Sozialpartner als Vetospieler [Pe nsion privatisation in Bismarckian countries: the role of social partners as veto p layers]. Politische Vierte ljahresschrift 3/2012 : 467 –492. http://www.nomos -elibrary.de/10.5771/0032- 3470 -2012 -3-467/rentenprivatisierung -in-bisma rck - laendern -zur -rolle -der -sozialpartner- als -vetospieler -jahrgang- 53- 2012 -heft -3?page=0
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Wiß, T. (2014 ) Betriebliche Familienpolitik: Österreich im europäischen Vergleich [Occupational family policy: Austria in comparison with European countries]. Kontra ste 08 /2014: 18 –32. http://www.jku.at/gespol/content/e103159/e111785/e111826/e280417/e280452/e280454/Kontraste8 - 14.pdf
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Wiß, T. (2015 ) Pension fund vulnerability t o the financial market crisis: t he role of trade unions. European Journal of Industrial Relations 21/2: 131– 147 . http://ejd.sagepub.com/content/21/2/131
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Wiß, T. (2015 ) From welf are states to welfare sectors: e xplaining sectoral differences in occupational pensions with economic and political power of employees. Journal of European Social Policy 25/5 : 489 –504 . http://esp.sagepub.com/content/25/5/489.full.pdf+html
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Wiß, T. (2016 ) Employee representatives’ influence on continuing vocational training : The impact of institutional conte xt. European Journal of Industrial Relations , Early View DOI : 10.1177/0959680116655689. http://ejd.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/24/0959680116655689.abst ract
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Wiß, T. (2016): Paths towards family -friendly working time arrangements: Comparing workplaces in different countries and industries. Social Policy & Administration , Early View DOI: 10.1111/spol.1227 0. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.12270/epdf
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Wiß, T. (2008) Europäisierung der Alterssicherung? Einfluss und Wirkung der Europäischen Union auf Rentenreformen in Deutschland [Europeanisation of Pensions? The Impact of the European Union on Pe nsion Refo rms in Germany since 2001]. Saarbrücken: vdm. https://www.amazon.de/Europ%C3%A4isierung- Alterssicherung- Europ%C3%A4ischen -Re ntenreformen - Deutschland/dp/3836491362
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Wiß, T. (2011) Der Wandel der Alterssicherung in Deutschland: Die Rolle der Sozialpartner [Changing Pensions in Germany: The Role of Social Partners]. Wiesbaden: VS Springer . http://www.springer.com/gp/bo ok/9783531182117?otherVersion=978 -3-531 -92899 -9
