Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger

Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2024) Informalizing childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: Policy responses to childcare and their implications for working parents in Denmark, England and Germany, Children and Youth Services Review (2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107695

Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2024) Gender and Policies on Paid Family Care—Overview of Debate and Theoretical Reflections, Journal of Family Research, 36: 43-57. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-938

Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher & Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2024) New forms of family care in cultural and institutional contexts: Introduction to the Special Collection, Journal of Family Research, 36: 58-65. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-1018

Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher.; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (eds.)(2023/2024) Special Issue des Journal of Family Research “New forms of family care in cultural and institutional contexts”, Journal of Family Research

Daly, Mary; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Gilbert, Neil; Besharov, Douglas (eds.)(2023) The Oxford International Handbook of Family Policy over the Life-course, Series ‘The Oxford Library of International Social Policy’, New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-family-policy-9780197518151?cc=de&lang=en&

Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2023) How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long-term care policy. International Journal of Social Welfare (Online First), https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12612

Och, Ralf; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2023) Marketization policies in the neoliberal era: How culture and governance structures affect the introduction of market principles in local care policies, Environment & Planning C, 4, 3: 448–465 , https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23996544221137959

Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2023) Theorizing the Role of Culture and Family Policy for Women’s Employment Behavior, in Daly, Mary; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Gilbert, Neil; Besharov, Douglas (eds.) The Oxford International Handbook of Family Policy, Series ‘The Oxford Library of International Social Policy’, New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-family-policy-9780197518151?cc=de&lang=en&

Daly, Mary; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Gilbert, Neil; Besharov, Douglas (2022) Family Change, Family Life Courses and Family Policy, in Daly, Mary; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Gilbert, Neil; Beshavor, Douglas (eds.) The Oxford International Handbook of Family Policy, Series ‘The Oxford Library of International Social Policy’, New York: Oxford University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-family-policy-9780197518151?cc=de&lang=en&

Daly, Mary; Leon, Margarita, Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Ranci, Costanzo & Rostgaard, Tine (2022) COVID-19 and Policies for Care Homes in European Welfare States: Too little, too late? Journal of European Social Policy, 32, 1: 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287211055672

Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Sebastian, Marcel (2022) Institutional persistence despite cultural change: A historical case study of the re-categorization of dogs in Germany, Agriculture and Human Values, 39, 1: 473–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10272-4

Yerkes, Mara; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & van Lancker, Wim (2022) Trajectories of Modernization of parenting leave policies within Continental Europe: Similarities and unexpected differences, in Ivana Dobrotić, Sonja Blum & Alison Koslowski (eds.,) Research Handbook on Leave Policy: Parenting and Social Inequalities in a Global Perspective; Edward Elgar.

Eggers, T.; Grages, C.; Pfau-Effinger, B. (2022): Re-Traditionalizing Childcare in the Pandemic? Policies on Childcare in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Different Types of Care Arrangements, in Armenia, A.; Duffy, M.; Price-Glynn, K. (eds.): Carework in a Changing World. New Brunswick: Rudgers University Press.

Pfau-Effinger, B. (2022) La culture comme variable dans l’analyse de la politique sociale, in Giraud, O.; Perrier, G. (eds.) Politiques sociales: l’état des saviors, Paris: Édition La Découverte Recherche.

Eggers, T.; Grages, C. and Pfau-Effinger, B. (2021): Politiken zur familialen Care-Arbeit und Gleichstellung der Geschlechter – eine theoretische Diskussion, in: Scherger, S.; Abramowski, R.; Anna Hokema, A.; Dingeldey, I. and Schäfer, A. (eds.): Geschlechterungleichheiten in Arbeit, Familie und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Karin Gottschall. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Grages, Christopher (2021) The Sociology of Social Policy―The State of the Art, in B. Hollstein, R. Greshoff, U. Schimank, and A. Weiß (eds.) Sociology in the German-Speaking World”, Sociological Review (Special Issue), 44, 2. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110627275-029

Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2021) Wohlfahrtsstaat. In: Ehlert, Gudrun; Funk, Heide; Stecklina, Gerd (eds.) Grundbegriffe Soziale Arbeit und Geschlecht, Wiesbaden: Beltz Juventa, 646-649.

Eggers, Thurid; Grages, Christopher; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Och, Ralf (2020) Re-conceptualising the relationship between de-familialisation and familialisation and the implications for gender equality – the case of long-term care policies for older people, Ageing & Society, 40, 4: 869-895. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18001435

Reimer, Thordis; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2020) Different types of parental leave use by German fathers and their engagement in childcare in subsequent years; Problemy Polityki Społeczne, 48, 1: 7-26.

Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2020) Culture as Variable in the Analysis of Welfare State Institutions, in Laenen, T.; Meulemann, B.; Otto, A.; Roosma, F.; van Lancker, W. (eds.) Leading Social Policy Analysis from the Front. Essays in Honour of Wim van Oorschot, Leuven: KU Leuven.

• Theorie und Forschung zum Verhältnis von Kultur und Institutionenwandel
• Theorie des Gender Arrangements und der Gender Culture
• Erklärung historischer Entwicklungspfade und internationaler Differenzen im Verhältnis von Erwerbsarbeit und Familie
• Erklärung internationaler Differenzen in den Wohlfahrts-Arrangements
• Erklärung internationaler Differenzen von Familienpolitiken
• Wandel im Verhältnis von formeller und informeller Arbeit und Einflussfaktoren
• Kulturelle und institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen des Verhältnisses der Gesellschaft zu den Tieren

1. ANR Forschungsprojekt AURELIA

Leiterin des Teams der Universität Hamburg im Forschungsprojekt des französischen ANR AURELIA (‘Autonomy Regimes in Long-Term Care Arrangements: Instrumentation and Territories’) –Internationales Forschungsprojekt, Koodinatoren Olivier Giraud, Loïc Trabut, Teams aus Forschungsinstituten und Universitäten: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, Buc-Ressources, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Fondation France-Japon EHESS, Lise-Cnam-CNRS; Frankreich; Universität Hamburg; Deutschland; London School of Economics and Social Sciences (LSE), Großbritannien; Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan; Concordia University, Quebec, Kanada, 2023-2028. https://aurelia.site.ined.fr/en/

·       Forschung zu den Möglichkeiten zur Autonomie im höheren Alter

2. CCWR an der University of California, Berkeley

Forschung im neuen internationalen Centre for Comparative Social Policy Research (CCWR), University of California, Berkeley (since 2024)

·       Aktuell Forschung zum internationalen Vergleich von wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Rahmenbedingungen für die Erwerbsarbeit und Emeritierung

3. EU Project EUROSHIP

Projektleitung im Rahmen des EU Projekts „Closing gaps in social citizenship. New tools to foster social resilience in Europe“ (EUROSHIP), in Horizon 2020, koordiniert von Prof. Dr. Rune Halvorsen, the Oslo Metropolitan University, Norwegen, mit Forschungs-Teams aus 8 Europäischen Ländern, Estland, Deutschland, Großbritannien, Italien, Norwegen, Spanien, Schweiz,  2/2020 - 7/2023. 

https://euroship-research.eu/home/

- Arbeit an Publikationen zu Forschungsergebnissen, u.a. an einem gemeinsamen Buch zur Analyse von Lücken in der Versorgung mit sozialer Sicherung, Pflege und Kinderbetreuung in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten, die Folgen für die Entwicklung von Armut in den jeweiligen Ländern, und die Möglichkeiten, ärmerer Menschen, ihre sozialen Rechte in den europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten wahrzunehmen (Edward Elgar, 2025)

4. GSA - Group for Society and Animals studies

Soziologische Forschung zum Verhältnis der Gesellschaft zu den Tieren

-Marcel Sebastian und ich haben kürzlich einen Artikel zur Frage veröffentlicht, warum des 32 Jahre gedauert hat, bis in der deutschen Nachkriegszeit das Verzehren von Hunden verboten wurde. Dabei haben wir einen neuen theoretischen Ansatz zur Erklärung institutioneller Persistenz entwickelt. Pfau-Effinger, Birgit; Sebastian, Marcel (2022) Institutional persistence despite cultural change: A historical case study of the re-categorization of dogs in Germany, Agriculture and Human Values, 39, 1: 473–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10272-4

Collaborative Research Program NICE Welfare at University of Southern Denmark

Collaborative Research Program NICE Welfare "Narratives, Indicators and Concepts in Changing European Welfare Societies", Team of University of Southern Denmark Pernille Tanggard Andersen, Kim Brixen, Bernard Jeune, Prof. Paul Marx, Klaus Petersen, Peter Simonsen, and international team Daniel Béland, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada; Olli Kangas, KELA Helsinki, Finland; Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany; Charles Ragin, UC Irvine, USA, Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, USA, financed by SDU Horizon 2020, 2014-2017.

Norwegian Research Council - Research Project "Part-Time Careers"

Research Project funded by the Norwegian Research Council “Part-time careers in Norway – the end of normalization? Women’s working time adaptation in a longitudinal perspective”, Fafo, Institute for Applied Social Science, Oslo, co-ordinated by Heidi Nicolaisen, International Partner, 2014-2016, prolongiated until 12/2017.

DFG Research Project FAMICAP

Research Project of the German Research Council (DFG), as part of the OIKON research project group: Institutional Framework of senior care by family members between market logic and family solidarity – conditions for institutional incomplementarity, Principal Investigator, 2014-2017, 353.303 Euro.

DFG - OIKON

Birgit Pfau-Effinger was main applicant and is the coordinator of a research project group "Strengthening of Economic Principles and Mismatch in Institutional Settings” OIKON. It includes four research projects funded by the DFG (German Research Council), University of Hamburg and University of Leipzig, 2014-2017, with 1.479.000 Euro; Principal Investigators Jürgen Beyer, University of Hamburg; Holger Lengfeld, University of Leipzig; Constanze Senge, University of Halle, and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, University of Hamburg (Co-Ordinator).

Forschungsprojekt des französischen ANR AURELIA

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