Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel

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University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
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University Mannheim, MZES
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68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

Juniorprofessor of Labour Market Sociology

Projects

A2 Spheres of Societal Integration: Family, Education, and Labour Markets

A2.1
The Social Consequences of Temporary Employment and Unemployment in Europe
A2.11
Young Women's Labour Market Chances in Muslim Middle Eastern and Northern African Countries
A2.14
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Youth Labour Markets in Europe
A2.15
Union Decline or Skill-Biased Technological Change? Income Inequality in Germany, 1979-2006

RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification

Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)
Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

RP6 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification in Europe

The Flexibilization of European Labor Markets: Incidence and Consequences of Atypical Employment

Publications

Editions

Kogan, Irena, Clemens Noelke and Michael Gebel (Eds.) (2011): Making the Transition: Education and Labor Market Entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [Studies in Social Inequality] more
Kogan, Irena, Michael Gebel and Clemens Noelke (Eds.) (2008): Europe Enlarged: A Handbook of Education, Labour and Welfare Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. more

Journal Articles

Gebel, Michael, and Anna Baranowska-Rataj (2012): New inequalities through privatization and marketization? An analysis of labour market entry of higher education graduates in Poland and Ukraine. European Sociological Review, 28, issue 6, p. 729-741. more
Kogan, Irena, Michael Gebel and Clemens Noelke (2012): Educational systems and inequalities in educational attainment in Central and Eastern European countries. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 4, issue 1, p. 69-83. more
Noelke, Clemens, Michael Gebel and Irena Kogan (2012): Uniform inequalities: Institutional differentiation and the transition from higher education to work in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. European Sociological Review, 28, issue 6, p. 704-716. more
Baranowska, Anna, Michael Gebel and Irena Kotowska (2011): The role of fixed term contracts at labour market entry in Poland: stepping stones, screening devices, traps or search subsidies?. Work, Employment and Society, 25, issue 4, p. 777-793. more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2011): Labour market flexibility and inequality: the changing skill-based temporary employment and unemployment risks in Europe. Social Forces, 90, issue 1, p. 17-40. more
Baranowska, Anna, and Michael Gebel (2010): The determinants of youth temporary employment in the enlarged Europe: do labour market institutions matter?. European Societies, 12, issue 3, p. 367-390. more
Gebel, Michael (2010): Early career consequences of temporary employment in Germany and the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society, 24, issue 4, p. 641-660. more
Gebel, Michael, and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (2010): Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers. Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch), 130, issue 1, p. 19-42. more
Kogan, Irena, Michael Gebel and Clemens Noelke (2010): Educational expansion and social inequality in Central and Eastern European countries (published in Bulgarian). Sociological Problems, 42, issue 1-2, p. 94–117. more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Fixed-Term Contracts at Labour Market Entry in West Germany: Implications for Job Search and First Job Quality. European Sociological Review, 25, issue 6, p. 661-675. more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2009): Labour market flexibility and inequality: the changing risk patterns of temporary employment in Germany. Journal for Labour Market Research (Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung), 42, issue 3, p. 234-251. more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2009): Ökonomische Unsicherheit und Fertilität. Die Wirkung von Beschäftigungsunsicherheit und Arbeitslosigkeit auf die Familiengründung in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 38, issue 5, p. 399-417. more

Book Chapters

Gebel, Michael (2011): Hard times for the less educated: education and labor market entry in East Germany after reunification. p. 58-84 in: Irena Kogan, Clemens Noelke, Michael Gebel (Eds.) Making the transition. Education and labor market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. more
Gebel, Michael, and Clemens Noelke (2011): The transition from school to work in Central and Eastern Europe: theory and methodology. p. 29-57 in: Irena Kogan, Clemens Noelke, Michael Gebel (Eds.) Making the transition. Education and labor market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. more
Gebel, Michael, and Irena Kogan (2011): When higher education pays off: education and labor market entry in Ukraine. p. 269-295 in: Irena Kogan, Clemens Noelke, Michael Gebel (Eds.) Making the transition. Education and labor market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. more
Kogan, Irena, Clemens Noelke and Michael Gebel (2011): Comparative analysis of social transformation, education systems and school-to-work transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. p. 320-354 in: Irena Kogan, Clemens Noelke, Michael Gebel (Eds.) Making the transition. Education and labor market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Wage effects of education: the impact of educational expansion in Germany. p. 261-270 in: Rolf Becker, Andreas Hadjar (Eds.) Expected and unexpected consequences of educational expansion in Europe and the US. Theoretical approaches and empirical findings in comparative perspective. Bern: Haupt. more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe. p. 35-62 in: Irena Kogan, Michael Gebel, Clemens Noelke (Eds.) Europe Enlarged: A Handbook of Education, Labour and Welfare Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Gernandt (2008): Soziale Ungleichheit von Geisteswissenschaftlern im Beruf. p. 157-174 in: Heike Solga, Denis Huschka, Patricia Eilsberger, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) Findigkeit in unsicheren Zeiten. Opladen: Budrich UniPress. more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Older Workers in the Focus of Regional Labour Market Monitoring. p. 96-103 in: Christa Larsen, Waldemar Mathejczyk, Alfons Schmid (Eds.) Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States. München: Rainer Hampp Verlag. more

MZES Working Papers

Baranowska, Anna, and Michael Gebel (2008): Temporary Employment in Central- and Eastern Europe: Individual Risk Patterns and Institutional Context. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 106] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2008): Labour Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Temporary Employment in Germany. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 112] more

Papers / Reports

Gebel, Michael (2013): Is a Temporary Job Better than Unemployment? A Cross-country Comparison Based on British, German, and Swiss Panel Data. Berlin [SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW Berlin; 543] more
Gebel, Michael (2012): Transition from education to work in Syria. Results of the Youth Transition Survey 2009. Torino [European Training Foundation Working Paper] more
Dieckhoff, Martina, Michael Gebel, Nadia Steiber and Daniele Zaccharia (2009): Varieties of Life Course Patterns. The Role of Institutions in Shaping Labour Market Careers in Europe. [State-of-the-Art Report] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Gernandt (2008): Soziale Ungleichheit von Geisteswissenschaftlern im Beruf. Berlin [RatSWD Working Paper] more
Gebel, Michael, and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (2007): Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers. Mannheim [ZEW Discussion Paper ] more
Gebel, Michael, and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (2007): Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers.. Berlin [SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW Berlin] more
Gebel, Michael (2006): Monitoring und Benchmarking bei arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen. Mannheim [ZEW Dokumentation] more

Conference Presentations

Gebel, Michael (2013): Does secondary vocational education still pay off at labour market entry? Evidence from British, German and Swiss panel data. [7th International Conference of Panel Data Users, Lausanne, February 14th to February 15th, 2013] more
Gebel, Michael (2012): Atypische Beschäftigung als Sprungbrett aus Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut?. [Invited lecture at IAB Colloquium, Nürnberg, July 05th, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael, and Stefanie Heyne (2012): Chances and barriers: Young women’s school-to-work and school-to-home transitions in Muslim Middle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) countries. [Spring 2012 Meeting of ISA RC28 Economic Transformation and Social Stratification in Comparative Perspectives, Hong Kong, May 10th to May 13th, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael (2012): Does temporary employment mitigate the scar effects of unemployment? A cross-country comparison based on British, German and Swiss panel data. [10th international SOEP user conference, Berlin, June 28th to June 29th, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael (2012): Exclusion and flexibilization in youth labour markets: The role of institutional and structural variation across Europe.. [19th International Conference for Europeanists on "A Europe of Diversities", Boston, March 22nd to March 24th, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2012): Exklusion und Flexibilisierung auf Jugendarbeitsmärkten: Die Rolle institutioneller und struktureller Einflussfaktoren in Europa. [DGS-Kongress, Ad-hoc Gruppe "Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung und soziale Ungleichheit: Empirische Befunde, Trends und Risikogruppen", Bochum, October 03rd, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2012): Flexibilization and inequality trends: The impact of employment protection reforms on youths’ non-employment and temporary employment risks in Europe. [ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, September 24th to September 26th, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael (2012): The impact of the great recession on youths' NEET and temporary employment risks in Europe. [Conference of the MacArthur Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on 'The Transition to Adulthood after the Great Recession', Bocconi University, Milano, October 25th to October 26th, 2012] more
Heyne, Stefanie, and Michael Gebel (2012): Education and labor market entry in Middle East and Northern African countries: Chances and constraints in times of increasing uncertainty. [7th IZA/World Bank Conference Employment and Development, New Delhi, November 05th to November 06th, 2012] more
Heyne, Stefanie, and Michael Gebel (2012): Unemployment and income Dynamics - Consequences of job loss in European welfare States. [Spring 2012 Meeting of ISA RC28 Economic Transformation and Social Stratification in Comparative Perspective, Hong Kong, May 10th to May 13th, 2012] more
Heyne, Stefanie, and Michael Gebel (2012): Where gender matters: school-to-home and school-to-work transition in Muslim Middle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) countries. [20th annual workshop TIY: Transition in Youth: A 20 Year Perspective, Nijmegen, September 05th to September 08th, 2012] more
Gebel, Michael (2011): Does temporary employment help to reintegrate unemployed workers? A comparison based on British, German and Swiss panel data. [Invited talk in research seminar “Life course and inequality”, Lausanne, October 19th to October 20th, 2011] more
Gebel, Michael (2011): Does Temporary Employment Mitigate the Scar Effects of Unemployment? A Cross-Country Comparison based on British, German and Swiss Panel Data. [6th International conference of panel data users in Switzerland, Lausanne, June 08th to June 09th, 2011] more
Gebel, Michael (2011): Does temporary employment mitigate the scar effects of unemployment? A cross-country comparison based on British, German and Swiss Panel Data.. [Understanding Society/BHPS Conference 2011, Colchester, Essex, June 30th to July 01st, 2011] more
Gebel, Michael (2010): Early career consequences of temporary employment in Germany and UK.. [Research Network EQUALSOC - Final Conference, Amsterdam, June 04th to June 05th, 2010] more
Gebel, Michael (2010): Frühe prekäre Lagen als permanente Narben? Familiäre Einkommensarmut und kindlicher Bildungserfolg in Deutschland. [Tagung der Sektionen „Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse“ und „Familiensoziologie“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie zum Thema "Reproduktion von Ungleichheit durch Arbeit und Familie", Rostock, April 15th to April 16th, 2010] more
Gebel, Michael (2010): Main results of the Syrian Youth Transition Survey. [Workshop of the European Training Foundation and the Central Bureau of Statistics of Syria: First analyses of the Syrian Youth Transition Survey, Damascus, March 17th, 2010] more
Gebel, Michael (2010): Main results of the Syrian Youth Transition Survey. [Personal report to the Deputy Prime Minister of Syria, Damascus, March 18th, 2010] more
Gebel, Michael, and Irena Kogan (2010): Tertiary Education Landscape and Labour Market Chances of the Higly Educated in Central and Eastern Europe. [International Conference "Higher education and beyond – Inequalities regarding entrance to higher education and educational credentials", Monte Verità, Ascona, July 04th to July 09th, 2010] more
Gebel, Michael (2010): Youth at risk? The impact of labour market deregulation on youths‘ relative unemployment and temporary employment risks in Europe. [EQUALSOC-EMPLOY Research Group Meeting “Varieties of life course patterns: the role of institutions in shaping labour market careers in Europe", European University Institute, Florence, April 29th to April 30th, 2010] more
Gebel, Michael, and Irena Kogan (2009): "What Kind of Higher Education Pays Off? An Analysis of Labour Market Entry of Higher Education Graduates in Ukraine" and "Making the Transition: Education and Labor Market Entry in Central- and Eastern Europe". [Workshop of the EDUC Research Group of the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence, Tallinn, June 10th to June 13th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Does Temporary Employment Help to Reintegrate the Unemployed Youth? Evidence from British and German Panel Data.. [Conference "Youth Transitions at Risk?" of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Dijon, September 16th to September 19th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Does Temporary Employment Help to Reintegrate the Unemployed? Evidence from British and German Panel Data. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Mobility and Inequality: Intergenerational and Life Course Perspectives", Yale University, New Haven, CT, August 03rd to August 06th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Early career consequences of temporary employment in Germany and the United Kingdom. [BHPS-2009 Conference, ISER, University of Essex, Colchester, July 09th to July 11th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2009): Economic uncertainty and fertility: the effects of employment insecurity and unemployment on family formation in East and West Germany. [Workshop "Economic Uncertainty and Family Dynamics", Berlin, July 03rd to July 04th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Informal employment at labour market entry. A comparative study of Croatia, Poland and Ukraine.. [ECSR Conference "Changing societies in the context of EU enlargement", Paris, December 11th to December 12th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Informal employment at labour market entry. A comparative study of Croatia, Poland and Ukraine.. [Conference "Youth Transitions at Risk?" of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Dijon, September 16th to September 19th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2009): Labour market flexibility and inequality: the changing skill-based temporary employment and unemployment risks in Europe. [EQUALSOC EMPLOY-FAMNET Research Group Workshop, Berlin, May 11th to May 12th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2009): Labour market flexibility and inequality: the changing skill-based temporary employment and unemployment risks in Europe. [1st European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, Mannheim, March 05th to March 06th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): When does income poverty during childhood matter for the educational success?. [5th International Young Scholars SOEP Symposium, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, March 27th to March 28th, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2009): Youth Transition Survey in Syria: Overview of the Questionnaire. [Workshop of the European Training Foundation and the Central Bureau of Statistics of Syria on the Implementation of a School-Leaver Survey in Syria, Damascus, September 26th to September 28th, 2009] more
Kogan, Irena, Michael Gebel and Clemens Noelke (2009): Making the transition: Education and labour market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. [ECSR Conference 'Changing societies in the context of EU enlargement, Paris, December 11th to December 12th, 2009] more
Kogan, Irena, and Michael Gebel (2009): Making the transition: Education and labour market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. [Conference "Youth Transitions at Risk?" of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Dijon, September 16th to September 19th, 2009] more
Noelke, Clemens, and Michael Gebel (2009): Ability grouping, equality and reading achievement. [EQUALSOC Research Team Meeting "Evaluating Educational Institutions", Madrid, January 23rd, 2009] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Atypical Employment and the Welfare State in Germany. [EQUALSOC Research Group Meeting "Atypical Employment and Welfare Regimes", Trento, November 13th to November 14th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2008): Atypical Employment and Welfare States: the Case of Germany (Research Group Presentation). [EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, April 11th to April 12th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Early Career Consequences of Temporary Employment: Evidence from British and German Panel Data. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Work, Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century", Stanford University, Palo Alto, August 06th to August 09th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Early Career Consequences of Temporary Employment: Evidence from British and German Panel Data. [16th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Bamberg, September 10th to September 13th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Education and Labour Market Entry in East Germany. [Workshop on Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central- and Eastern Europe, Bamberg, November 27th to November 28th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael, and Irena Kogan (2008): Education and Labour Market Entry in Ukraine. [16th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Bamberg, September 10th to September 13th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael, and Irena Kogan (2008): Education and Labour Market Entry in Ukraine. [ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Work, Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century", Stanford University, Palo Alto, August 06th to August 09th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Empirical Analyses of School-to-Work Transition. [Workshop on Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central- and Eastern Europe, Ljubljana, July 25th to July 27th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2008): Employment Insecurity and the Transition to Parenthood. [8th International GSOEP User Conference, Berlin, July 09th to July 11th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2008): Labor Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Temporary Employment in Europe. [ISA-RC28 Spring Meeting "Social Stratification and Insiders/Outsiders: Cross-national Comparisons within and between Continents", Florence, May 15th to May 18th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): Labor Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Temporary Employment in Europe. [ISA-RC02 Midterm Conference "Inequality beyond Globalization: Economic Changes and the Dynamics of Inequality", Neuchâtel, June 26th to June 28th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael (2008): When Does Income Poverty During Childhood Matter for the Educational Success?. [ESF Conference "The Transfer of Resources across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children’s Wellbeing", Vadstena, June 09th to June 13th, 2008] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2007): Atypical Employment in Germany. [EQUALSOC Research Group Meeting "Atypical Employment and Welfare Regimes", Trento, October 25th to October 26th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Dynamic Analyses of Labour Market Entry.. [Workshop on Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central- and Eastern Europe, Dijon, November 24th to November 25th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers. [Verein für Socialpolitik Jahrestagung 2007 zum Thema "Bildung und Innovation", München, October 09th to October 12th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns in West Germany.. [International Conference “Expected and Unexpected Consequences of the Educational Expansion”, Monte Verità (Ascona), July 08th to July 13th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Estimating Causal Effects from Non-Experimental Data: an Application to Returns to Education. [AIAS Lunch Seminar, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, November 01st, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Fixed-Term Contracts at Labour Market Entry: Individual Risk Patterns and Quality of First Job.. [EQUALSOC Summer School on “Changes in the Institutional Arrangement of EU Societies and their Effects on Inequality and Social Cohesion”, Levico (Trento), July 02nd to July 07th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Labour Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Atypical Employment. Evidences from the German Labour Market. [Workshop: Wandel durch Globalisierung, Humboldt Universität Berlin, August 28th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Giesecke (2007): Labour Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Atypical Employment. Evidences from the German Labour Market. [ECSR and TransEurope Conference on Globalization, Social Inequality and the Life Course, Groningen, September 01st to September 02nd, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael (2007): Lectures: "Introduction to Stata" and "School-to-Work Transition". [DAAD Summer School: Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Europe, Varna, September 11th to September 22nd, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael, and Johannes Gernandt (2007): Soziale Ungleichheit von Geisteswissenschaftern im Beruf. [Arts and Figures - Geisteswissenschafter im Beruf, Wiesbaden, November 27th to November 28th, 2007] more
Gebel, Michael, and Clemens Noelke (2006): From School to Work or Unemployment? The Returns to Education under Varying Institutional and Macrostructural Conditions.. [ESCR Summer School: Quality and Inequality in Education: Theory, Research, and Policy, Prague, August 25th to August 30th, 2006] more