Prof. Schwander erforscht die politische Ökonomie moderner Wohlfahrtsstaaten und untersucht, wie Arbeitsmarktpolitiken soziale Ungleichheiten schaffen und politische Einstellungen prägen. Aktuell konzentriert sie sich auf die Sozialpolitik der Klimaanpassung sowie auf die politische Machbarkeit von Reformpolitiken wie dem Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen — dabei analysiert sie systematisch, welche Bevölkerungsgruppen welche Politikdesigns unterstützen und warum. Ihre Forschung verbindet quantitative Umfragedaten, Konjoint-Analysen und Längsschnittdaten, um Polarisierungen in der Politikpräferenz zu messen und die Verteilungskonflikte in Demokratien zu verstehen. Für Unternehmen und die öffentliche Hand relevant: Sie liefert evidenzbasierte Erkenntnisse darüber, welche Politikdesigns gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz finden und wie Arbeitsmarkt- oder Klimapolitiken Ungleichheiten und politische Spannungen beeinflussen.
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Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwander
HU-FIS-Profil ↗GRK 2458: Die Dynamiken von Demographie, demokratischen Prozessen und Public Policies (DYNAMICS)
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Förderer: Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Zeitraum: 10/2020 - 12/2025 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Jule Specht, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf, Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwander, Prof. Dr. Ursula Hess, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Förderer: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales Zeitraum: 07/2026 - 12/2030 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwander
Förderer: DFG Graduiertenkolleg Zeitraum: 09/2019 - 08/2028 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver
Journal of European Social Policy · DOI
With the post-industrialization and flexibilization of European labour markets, research on social and economic correlates of labour market vulnerability and weak labour market attachment is growing. Part of this literature conceptualizes these correlates in terms of dualization and insider–outsider divides in an attempt to explore their political implications: this article is written in order to contribute to this strand of research. In this article, we propose a conceptualization and measurement of labour market insiders and outsiders, based on their respective risk of being atypically employed or unemployed. We propose both a dichotomous measure of insiders/outsiders and a continuous measure of the degree of an individual’s ‘outsiderness’. We argue that such risk-based measures are particularly suited for research on the policy preferences and political implications of insider–outsider divides. On the basis of EU-SILC and national household panel data, we provide a map of dualization across different countries and welfare regimes. We then explore the correlates of labour market vulnerability – that is, outsiderness – by relating it to indicators of income and upward job mobility, as well as labour market policy preferences. The results consistently confirm an impact of labour market vulnerability, indicating a potential for a politicization of the insider/outsider conflict.
Socio-Economic Review · DOI
Recent research has established that employment risk shapes social policy preferences. However, risk is often conceptualized as an alternative measure of the socio-economic status. We show that employment risk and socio-economic status are distinct, crosscutting determinants of social policy preferences. More specifically, we analyze the policy preferences of high-skilled labor market outsiders as a cross-pressured group. We first establish that labor market vulnerability has spread well into the more highly educated segments of the population. We then show that the effect of labor market vulnerability on social policy preferences even increases with higher educational attainment. We conclude that that labor market risk and educational status are not interchangeable and that the high skilled are particularly sensitive to the experience of labor market risk. Thereby, our findings point to a potential cross-class alliance between more highly and lower skilled vulnerable individuals in support of a redistributive and activating welfare state. Thus, they have far-reaching implications for our understanding of both the politicization of insider/outsider divides and the politics of welfare support.
Oxford University Press eBooks · DOI
Abstract This chapter demonstrates that the extent to which labor market segmentation leads to economic, social and political insider-outsider divides depends on the institutional context. Based on survey and income data, it shows that both the composition, as well as the economic and social situation of insiders and outsiders varies across countries and welfare regimes. The share of outsiders is highest in liberal and continental countries, followed by the Nordic and Southern European countries. In a comparative perspective, insider-outsider divides appear to be strongest in continental Europe, with regard to all three dimensions examined: labor market inequalities, welfare inequalities and political integration. The upshot of the chapter is that policies matter: they can compensate, reproduce or even deepen insider-outsider divides.