Ongoing projects
Emmy Noether Research Group
Hannah Zagel is head of the research group "Varieties of Reproduction Regimes", which is funded by the DFG's Emmy Noether Program and based at WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2022-2028). The seeks to understand the interplay of policies regulating reproduction, inequalities and norms from a comparative perspective. Reproduction is understood as processes around planning, avoiding, starting, carrying or ending pregnancy and procreation. Our research pays particular attention to the role of policies and regulations to a) shape patterns of reproduction in the life course differentially across social groups, and b) affect norms around reproduction and family.
Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life
Nehle Penning contributes to the project "Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life: Evidence for Policy Innovation Towards Inclusive Extended Work and Sustainable Working Conditions in Sweden and Europe – EIWO" (Co-PI Prof. Dr. Monika Reichert), which is a clloaboration between the University of Linköping, the University of Sheffield, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Universität Vechta, and the Forschungsgesellschaft für Gertontologie e.V. - since 2019
AGE-WEALTH
Andreas Weiland is Co-PI of the project AGE-WEALTH, which is based at the University of Bamberg (Prof. Katja Möhring).
The project examines employment and pension trajectories and their relationship with financial resources in the post-retirement phase in East and West Germany, taking wealth development into account. Its aim is to analyze gender-specific employment histories and pension point trajectories across cohorts (birth cohorts <1947, 1947–1956, 1957–1966, and 1967–1976) and their association with individual financial security in old age. Based on the analysis of retirement income and wealth, the project investigates the relationship between individual wealth accumulation and the accumulation of pension entitlements over the life course.
The empirical analyses are based on the SOEP-RV dataset, which links administrative data from the German Pension Insurance (Scientific Use Files of the insurance account sample and the pension recipient stock) with the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). This data basis allows for the observation of employment histories and pension entitlements over the life course, as well as comprehensive analyses of pension payments, statutory pension entitlements, and additional income and wealth components.