Dr. Frederike Esche

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Main Areas of Research
- Social Satisfaction Research
- Life Course Research
- Social Inequality Research
- Family Sociology
- Quantitative Methods
Curriculum Vitae
September 2016 - present
Research Assistant (PostDoc) in the study area of sociology - social change, Department of Socioeconomics, Universität Hamburg
October 2015 – September 2016
Research Assistant (PostDoc) in the study area of macrosociology, Institute for Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
August 2015
Ph.D., Humboldt-Universtitä zu Berlin
Dissertation Title: „Mein, dein oder unser Problem? Eine vergleichende Analyse der Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit für Partnerschaften zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland." Examiners: Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp
July 2014 – July 2015
Visiting Scholar, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Department Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Berlin
October 2013 – July 2014
Research Assistant in the project "A Life Course Perspective on Inequality Trends across Households", Institute for Sociology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
January 2012 – June 2012
Semester abroad at the University of Southampton, School of Social Sciences: Social Statistics and Demography, Southampton (UK)
October 2010 – December 2013
Research Assistant at Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Department of Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Berlin
Oktober 2010 – August 2015
Doctoral program at Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), “European Ph.D. in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies (SESS)”, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
January 2010 – September 2010
Research Assistant in the field of social structure and social inequality, Faculty of Sociology, Universität Bielefeld
January 2010
Diploma in Sociology, Universität Bielefeld
Publications
Böhnke, P. & F. Esche, 2023: Hauptsache erwerbstätig? Arbeitszufriedenheit gering literalisierter Erwachsener. S. 179–211 in: A. Grotlüschen, K. Buddeberg & H. Solga (eds.), Interdisziplinäre Analysen zur LEO - Studie 2018 – Leben mit geringer Literalität. Vertiefende Erkenntnisse zur Rolle des Lesens und Schreibens im Erwachsenenalter. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; Imprint Springer VS.
Esche, F., 2020: Is the problem mine, yours, or ours? The impact of unemployment on couples’ life satisfaction and specific domain satisfaction. Advances in Life Course Research 46: 100354.
Esche, F. & P. Böhnke, 2019: Pessimistische Eltern, pessimistische Kinder? Die beruflichen Zukunftserwartungen Jugendlicher im sozioökonomischen Familienkontext. pp.. 165–191 in: C. Lübke & J. Delhey (Eds.), Diagnose Angstgesellschaft? Was wir wirklich über die Gefühlslage der Menschen wissen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Hertel, F.R. & F. Esche, 2019: Die rechte Mitte? Zur Rolle objektiver Position und subjektiver Verunsicherung für die Identifikation mit rechten Parteien. pp. 255–285 in: C. Lübke & J. Delhey (Eds.), Diagnose Angstgesellschaft? Was wir wirklich über die Gefühlslage der Menschen wissen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Böhnke, P. & F. Esche, 2018: Armut und subjektives Wohlbefinden. pp.. 235–246 in: P. Böhnke, J. Dittmann & J. Goebel (Eds.), Handbuch Armut. Ursachen, Trends, Maßnahmen. Opladen, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Esche, F. & J. Schupp, 2018: Längsschnittliche Datenstrukturen als Evaluationsinstrument der Validität retrospektiver Angaben. S. 333–352 in: M. Giesselmann, K. Golsch, H. Lohmann & A. Schmidt-Catran (Hrsg.), Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland in der Längsschnittperspektive. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
Esche, F., 2017: Die Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit für Partnerschaften. Eine vergleichende Analyse zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Scheve, C. von, F. Esche & J. Schupp, 2017: The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment. Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation. Journal of Happiness Studies 18: 1231–1254
Vandecasteele, L. & F. Esche, 2015: Women’s labour force exit. The role of her partner’s socio-economic position. Schmollers Jahrbuch / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 135: 35–46.
Presentations and Talks
"Job Loss and Its Consequences on the Individual's Subjective Well-Being: How Important Is Leisure?"; 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology; 10.-14. Juli 2016; Vienna (Austria).
"The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment – Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation"; XII. Quality of Life Conference der International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS); 15.-18. September 2014; Berlin (together with Christian von Scheve und Jürgen Schupp, talk given by: Frederike Esche).
"How job loss affects the well-being of couples –Investigating the changes in life satisfaction and domain satisfaction in consequence of job loss in Germany and Great Britain"; XII. Quality of Life Conference der International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS); 15.-18. September 2014; Berlin.
"The destabilizing effect of job loss on partnerships. What role does the division of labor play?"; Annual Meeting 2014 der American Sociological Association; Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables; 16.-20. August 2014; San Francisco (USA).
"The detrimental effects of job loss. Analyzing the consequences of unemployment on life satisfaction and domain satisfaction among couples"; SOEP User Konferenz 2014; 30. Juni -1. Juli 2014; Berlin.
"Trends in women’s employment dynamics: examining the changing role of the woman’s and her partner’s social position"; SOEP User Konferenz 2014; 30. Juni -1. Juli 2014; Berlin (zusammen mit Leen Vandecasteele, Vortragende: Leen Vandecasteele).
"Arbeitslosigkeit und deren Folgen für die Zufriedenheit von Paaren"; Current Developments in Family Sociology, Conference of the Section Family Socioogy of the German Society of Sociology, 24.-25. April 2014; Berlin.
"Household employment dynamics in different cohorts: examining the role of cumulative disadvantage"; Dynamiken Sozialer Ungleichheit, Tagung der Sektion “Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse” der DGS; 3.-4. April 2014; Berlin (together with Leen Vandecasteele, talk given by: Leen Vandecasteele).
"Job gone, partner gone? Does unemployment increase the risk of partnership dissolutions?"; Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies (SESS) XI Annual Seminar; 8.-11. September 2013; Budapest (Hungary).
"Analyzing the effect of unemployment on the well-being of spouses: Does unemployment increase the risk of partnership dissolutions?"; ESA 11th Crises, Critique and Change, RN13 -Sociology of families and intimate lives; 28.-31. August 2013; Turin (Italy).
"Mine, yours or our problem? – Analyzing the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction on couples"; JESS Seminar; 12. June 2013; Colchester (UK).
"The detrimental effects of unemployment – Analyzing the impact of unemployment on partnership dissolutions"; 9th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium; 21.-22. März 2013; Delmenhorst.
"Mine, yours or our problem? – Analyzing the effect of one partner’s job loss on life satisfaction in intimate relationships", 10th International Conference of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS); 1.-4. November 2012; Venice (Italy).
"Mine, yours or our problem? - An analysis on the consequences of one partner's unemployment for couple's life satisfaction"; Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies (SESS) X Annual Seminar “Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies: Integrating Theory and Research”; 2.-5.September 2012; Haifa (Israel).
"Employment and its substitutes – does social participation compensate the decrease in life satisfaction during unemployment?"; Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) International Conference 2011; 26.-28. September 2011; Bielefeld.
"Unemployment and life satisfaction in couples"; Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies (SESS) IX Annual Seminar; 4.-7. September 2011; Tampere (Finnland).