Selected Publications

Books

  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Flaquer, Lluis; Jensen, Per H. (eds.) (2009): Formal and Informal Work in Europe. The Hidden Work Regime. London, New York: Routledge.
  • Oorschot, Wim van; Opielka, Michael; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (eds.) (2007): Culture and Welfare State. Values and Social Policy in a Comparative Perspective. Cheltenham/UK; Northampton/ MA, USA: Edward Elgar. (Reviews on the book in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analyses 11, 2/2009; Choice. Current Review for Academic Libraries, 46, 4/2008)
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Geissler, Birgit (eds.) (2005): Care and Social Integration in European Societies - Variations and Change. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Andersen, Jörgen Goul; Guillemard, Anne Marie; Jensen, Per; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (ed.) (2005): The New Face Of Welfare. Social Policy, Marginalization and Citizenship, COST A13 Book Series, Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2004): Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women’s Employment in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. (Reviews on the book in International Sociology, 21/2006, Journal of European Social Policy 16/2006, Women in Management Review 20/2005).
  • Treas, Judy; Drobnič. Sonja (eds.): Dividing the domestic: Men, Women and Housework in Cross-National Perspective, Stanford: Stanford University Press: 125-147.

 

Articles in Academic Journals (peer review)

  • Eichler, Melanie; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2009) The “consumer principle” in the care of elderly people - free choice and actual choice in the German welfare state, Social Policy and Administration, 43, 6: 617-633.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2010) L’impatto dei congedi parental sull’ occupazione della madri nelle società europee, Italian Journal of Social Policy, 1: 189-208.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2009) Varieties of undeclared work in European societies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 47,1: 79-99.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2009) Welfare cultures from a European perspective, Studi di Sociologia XLVII, 1: 123-149.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2009) ‚Kulturelle Grundlagen des Wandels von Wohlfahrtsstaaten’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie ‘, 34, 3: 3-21.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2009): Entwicklungspfade und Zukunft der Kinderbetreuung, Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (Journal for Family Research), (special issue) 6: 237-254.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2007) Cultura e strutture innovative nei servizi di cura (Innovative cultures and structures of care arrangements), Italian Journal of Social Policyi, 10,3: 11-32.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2005): Welfare State Policies and the development of care arrangements.  European Societies 7, 2, 321-347.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2005): Culture and Welfare State Policies: Reflections on a Complex Interrelation. Journal of Social Policy 34, 1, pp. 1-18.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2004): Historical paths of the male breadwinner family model – explanation for cross-national differences. British Journal of Sociology, 55, 3: 377-399.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2004): Umbau der skandinavischen Volksheime ? Geographische Rundschau, 2: 32-36.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2003): Familienpolitik in Deutschland im Ost-/West-Vergleich. Sociologhicheskye Issledovanya (Sociological Research)
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2001): Wandel wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Geschlechterpolitiken im soziokulturellen Kontext. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 41, Sonderband 'Geschlechtersoziologie', Ed. von Bettina Heintz, 487-511.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2000): Opyt kross-natsional’nogo analiza gendernogo uklada (Transformation von Gender-Arrangements – Theorie und Soziale Praxis). Sociologhicheskye Issledovanya (Sociological Research), 11. 24-36.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1999): Change of family policies in the socio-cultural context of European Societies. Comparative Social Research, 18, 135-160.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1998): Gender cultures and the gender arrangement - a theoretical framework for cross-national comparisons on gender. Innovation: the European Journal of Social Sciences, Special Issue, ed. by Simon Duncan, 11, 2, 147-166
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1994): The Gender Contract and Part-time Paid Work by Women - A Comparative Perspective. Environment and Planning A, 26, 8, 1355-1376
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1993): Modernisation, Culture and Part-time Employment - The Example of Finland and Germany, in: Work, Employment and Society. 7, 3, 383-410
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1999): Development paths of European labour markets. Lifelong Learning in Europe. 3
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1998): Gender cultures and the gender arrangement - a theoretical framework for cross-national comparisons on gender. Innovation: the European Journal of Social Sciences, Special Issue, ed. by Simon Duncan, 11, 2, 147-166
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1998): Der Mythos von der Hausfrauenehe. Entwicklungspfade der Familie in Europa. Soziale Welt, 2,167-182.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1996): Analyse internationaler Differenzen in der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen - theoretischer Rahmen und empirische Ergebnisse. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 3, 462-492.
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1995): Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen im europäischen Vergleich - am Beispiel von Finnland, den Niederlanden und Westdeutschland. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 1
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1994): Erwerbspartnerin oder berufstätige Ehefrau? Sozio-kulturelle Kontextbedingungen der Arbeitsmarkt-Integration von Frauen im internationalen Vergleich. Soziale Welt, 3, 322-373
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1994): The Gender Contract and Part-time Paid Work by Women - A Comparative Perspective. Environment and Planning A, 26, 8, 1355-1376
  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1993): Modernisation, Culture and Part-time Employment - The Example of Finland and Germany, in: Work, Employment and Society. 7, 3, 383-410

 

Book chapters

  • Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2010): Housework in Cultural and Institutional Contexts. In: Treas, Judy; Drobnič. Sonja (eds.): Dividing the domestic: Men, Women and Housework in Cross-National Perspective, Stanford: Stanford University Press: 125-147.