TY  - CHAP
A1  - Riederer, Bernhard Edwin
A1  - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie
A1  - Seewann, Lena
T1  - Singles in the city
BT  - happily ever after?
T2  - Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
N2  - More people than ever are living in cities, and in these cities, more and more people are living alone. Using the example of Vienna, this paper investigates the subjective well-being of single households in the city. Previous research has identified positive and negative aspects of living alone (e.g., increased freedom vs. missing social embeddedness). We compare single households with other household types using data from the Viennese Quality of Life Survey (1995–2018). In our analysis, we consider overall life satisfaction as well as selected dimensions of subjective wellbeing (i.e., housing, financial situation, main activity, family, social contacts, leisure time). Our findings show that the subjective well-being of single households in Vienna is high and quite stable over time. While single households are found to have lower life satisfaction than two-adult households, this result is mainly explained by singles reporting lower satisfaction with family life. Compared to households with children, singles are more satisfied with their financial situation, leisure time and housing, which helps to offset the negative consequences of missing family ties (in particular with regard to single parents).
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 1728-5305
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 319
EP  - 353
PB  - Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
CY  - Vienna
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Riederer, Bernhard Edwin
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
A1  - Ahn, Byeongsun
T1  - Professionalisation, polarisation or both?
BT  - economic restructuring and new divisions of labour
JF  - Vienna
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-0-367-68011-4
SN  - 978-1-003-13382-7
SN  - 978-0-367-68013-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003133827-10
SP  - 99
EP  - 114
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Riederer, Bernhard Edwin
A1  - Seewann, Lena
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
T1  - Das Schrumpfen der Mittelschicht als städtisches Phänomen
BT  - Entwicklungen in Wien 1995 bis 2018
T2  - Mittelschicht unter Druck : Dynamiken in der österreichischen Mitte
N2  - Großstädte sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten einem massiven wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel ausgesetzt, der die städtische Sozialstruktur einmal mehr entscheidend veränderte. Basierend auf Erkenntnissen der Stadtsoziologie sowie der Arbeitsmarkt- und Migrationsforschung untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag diese Entwicklung am Beispiel Wiens. Dabei wird insbesondere der These einer zunehmenden sozialen Polarisierung in Städten nachgegangen. Es zeigt sich, dass auch in Wien die Mittelschichten im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschrumpft sind. Ergebnisse aus multinomialen logistischen Regressionsmodellen und Dekompositionsanalysen weisen zudem darauf hin, dass Veränderungen am Arbeitsmarkt (z. B. zunehmende Verbreitung von Teilzeit) und in der Bevölkerungszusammensetzung (z. B. Herkunft von Zuwanderern) zu diesem Wandel beigetragen haben, während das steigende Bildungsniveau der Stadtbevölkerung ein noch stärkeres Schrumpfen der Mittelschicht verhindert hat.
KW  - Mittelschicht
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Migration
KW  - Bildung
KW  - Erwerbsarbeit
KW  - Zeitverlauf
KW  - Dekomposition
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-658-31522-1
SN  - 978-3-658-31523-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31523-8_9
SP  - 185
EP  - 210
PB  - Springer
CY  - Wiesbaden
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Riederer, Bernhard Edwin
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
A1  - Seewann, Lena
T1  - Changing social stratification in Vienna
BT  - why are migrants declining from the middle of society?
JF  - Population, Space and Place
N2  - The social stratification systems of major cities are transforming all around the globe. International research has been discussing this trend and focus on changing occupational classes. However, the precise effects on urban households, taking social welfare and different family arrangements into account, as well as the precise effects on people with a migration background, remain unclear. Using the example of Vienna, this article examines immigration as a key dimension for social stratification. Although household income structures in Austria have remained comparatively stable over the past two decades, the middle-income share in Vienna (as the sole metropolis in Austria) has dramatically decreased. This predominantly affects people from migrant backgrounds. Using a comprehensive dataset (two waves, N = 16,700 participants, including N = 4,500 migrants), we systematically examine the role of (a) migration-specific and (b) education- and employment-related factors to explain the decline of middle-income migrants. The results of multinomial logistic regression and decomposition analyses suggest that transformations in the labour market is the main driving force. Changing migrant characteristics have counteracted this process. If today's migrants displayed similar showed characteristics (e.g., origin and educational levels) to those prevalent in the past decade, the ethnic stratification disparities would have been even stronger.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2215
SN  - 1544-8444
SN  - 1544-8452
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - New York
ER  -