Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Professor
Sociology
Otto-Selz-Institute of Applied Psychology
Germany
Biography
Venia legendi in Sociology (Habilitation), Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Cologne. Exit from Labor: Reforming Early Retirement and Social Partnership in Europe, Japan and the USA (Reviewers: W. Streeck, J. Friedrichs, F. Schulz-Nieswandt). 1989-1992 Doctoral studies; Dissertation (Ph.D., 1993), Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Dissertation: Labour Unity in Union Diversity. Trade Unions and Social Cleavages in Western Europe, 1890–1989 (Supervisors: G. Esping-Andersen; H.-P. Blossfeld, Committee: C. Crouch, W. Korpi, Ch. Tilly, J. Visser; Grade: “with distinctionâ€). 1988/89 Graduate program in European Studies, Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Européennes, University of Geneva. 1981-1988 Under- and graduate studies in sociology and history. Diploma in Sociology, University of Mannheim. Thesis: The Unionization of White-Collar Employees (Reviewer: P. Flora). 1984/85 Graduate studies in Sociology and Historical Studies, The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York.
Research Interest
Macrosociology
Publications
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Co-editor (with Noel Whiteside and Mitchell A. Orenstein), European Funded Pensions and their Governance in Times of Uncertainty, special issue of Global Social Policy, 12 (3) 2012, 241-344. [http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/12/3.toc]
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Co-editor (with Busemeyer, Marius , Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Stephan Leibfried, Nicole MayerAhuja, Herbert Obinger, and Birgit Pfau-Effinger) (eds) (2013), Wohlfahrtspolitik im 21. Jahrhundert: Neue Wege der Forschung, Frankfurt: Campus.
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Co-editor (with J. Timo Weishaupt and Claus Wendt): Der Umbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Krisenzeiten: Institutioneller Wandel in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich, Special issue for Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 59(3): forthcoming.
