Dr. Frederike Esche

• Social Satisfaction Research
• Life Course Research
• Social Inequality Research
• Family Sociology
• Quantitative Methods

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

 "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).