TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
A1  - Liedl, Bernd
T1  - Declining Gender Differences in Low-Wage Employment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
JF  - Comparative Sociology
N2  - Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular.
KW  - low-wage employment
KW  - gender inequality
KW  - labor market
KW  - Germany
KW  - Austria
KW  - Switzerland
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341507
SN  - 1569-1322
SN  - 1569-1330
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SP  - 449
EP  - 488
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bobzien, Licia
A1  - Kalleitner, Fabian
T1  - Attitudes towards European financial solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
BT  - evidence from a net-contributor country
JF  - European societies
N2  - Whilst the Covid-19 pandemic affects all European countries, the ways in which these countries are prepared for the health and subsequent economic crisis varies considerably. Financial solidarity within the European Union (EU) could mitigate some of these inequalities but depends upon the support of the citizens of individual member states for such policies. This paper studies attitudes of the Austrian population - a net-contributor to the European budget - towards financial solidarity using two waves of the Austrian Corona Panel Project collected in May and June 2020. We find that individuals (i) who are less likely to consider the Covid-19 pandemic as a national economic threat, (ii) who believe that Austria benefits from supporting other countries, and (iii) who prefer the crisis to be organized more centrally at EU-level show higher support for European financial solidarity. Using fixed effects models, we further show that perceiving economic threats and preferring central crisis management also explain attitude dynamics within individuals over time. We conclude that cost-benefit perceptions are important determinants for individual support of European financial solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
KW  - Covid-19
KW  - financial solidarity
KW  - European Union
KW  - Austria
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1836669
SN  - 1461-6696
SN  - 1469-8307
VL  - 23
IS  - Sup. 1
SP  - S791
EP  - S804
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie
A1  - Liedl, Bernd
A1  - Paulinger, Gerhard
T1  - Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria
BT  - do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines?
JF  - Current Sociology
N2  - The gendered division of occupations is a persistent characteristic of the Austrian labour market. Furthermore, we can observe more flexible employment biographies, where sequential employment episodes and occupational transitions become an important part. On this account, the article argues that both gender inequalities and labour market movements need to be examined simultaneously. The authors therefore analyse gender-(un)typed horizontal occupational transitions and their influence on the vertical positioning, based on the Austrian Micro Census (2008–2018). The results reveal that gender-typed occupational transitions are regaining relevance and that the gender effect is reversing in that women increasingly leave gender-untyped occupations. The findings also demonstrate that this gender-typed horizontal movement yields a significant decline in occupational status for women, which even increases when women become mothers. Based on their models the authors find no negative effects for fathers.
KW  - Austria
KW  - children
KW  - gender composition
KW  - horizontal and vertical movements
KW  - labour market
KW  - vements labour market occupational transitions
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011392120969767
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120969767
SN  - 0085-2066
SN  - 0011-3921
VL  - 70
IS  - 5
SP  - 720
EP  - 741
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -