There has been a lack of debate between and frameworks for theories of the causes of
poverty. This article proposes that most theories of poverty can be productively categorized …

This article develops a framework for analyzing the risks of poverty in terms of prevalences
(share of the population with a risk) and penalties (increased probability of poverty …

Interest in the study of vulnerability has experienced impressive growth across various
disciplines. To contribute to this major but scattered development in the study of …

In the EU at-risk-of-poverty rates 1 have been quite stable over the last decade (Eurostat
2014). However, some social groups–among them lone mothers–are disproportionately …

Lone mothers are among the groups most affected by income poverty in Germany. Previous
research shows that both lone mothers' social composition (eg employment status, age …

Dieses Buch basiert auf meiner Dissertation, welche ich im Sommer 2018 abgegeben und
im November 2018 verteidigt habe. Das Schreiben einer Dissertation stellt einen …

Despite a growing interest in the effects of job loss, research on its consequences for older
workers and their economic situation in retirement remains scant. Using 30 years of data …

If families adhere to a male breadwinner model, mothers and fathers accumulate different
kinds of resources. On one hand, this implies that divorces have different consequences for …

Zusammenfassung Die Ausstiegswahrscheinlichkeit aus relativer Einkommensarmut hat
sich in Deutschland seit Mitte der 1990er-Jahre deutlich verringert. Anhand von Daten des …

Social inequalities constitute one of the largest research fields of sociology in the German-
speaking countries. This field has been successfully institutionalized and internationalized in …