Michaela Pfeifer

former staff member
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
 
 

Projects

RP7 A1 Market Economies and Welfare States

Attitudes Towards Welfare State Institutions: New Perspectives for the Comparative Welfare State Analysis
European System of Welfare State Indicators (EUWI): Political, Social and Institutional Change in Comparison

RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification

Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Monographs

Bahle, Thomas, Vanessa Hubl and Michaela Pfeifer (2011): The last safety net. A handbook of minimum income protection in Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. more
Wendt, Claus, Monika Mischke and Michaela Pfeifer (2011): Welfare States and Public Opinion. Perceptions of Healthcare Systems, Family Policy and Benefits for the Unemployed and Poor in Europe. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. more

Journal Articles

Wendt, Claus, Monika Mischke, Michaela Pfeifer and Nadine Reibling (2012): Confidence in receiving medical care when seriously ill: a seven-country comparison of the impact of cost barriers. Health Expectations, 15, issue 2, pp. 212-224. more
Wendt, Claus, Monika Mischke, Michaela Pfeifer and Nadine Reibling (2011): Cost barriers reduce confidence in receiving medical care when seriously ill. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 65, issue 11, pp. 1115-1117. more
Wendt, Claus, Jürgen Kohl, Monika Mischke and Michaela Pfeifer (2010): How do Europeans perceive their healthcare system? Patterns of satisfaction and preference for state involvement in the field of healthcare. European Sociological Review, 26, issue 2, pp. 177-192. more
Pfeifer, Michaela (2009): Public Opinion on State Responsibility for Minimum Income Protection: A Comparison of 14 European Countries. Acta Sociologica, 52, issue 2, pp. 117-134. more

Book Chapters

Hubl, Vanessa, and Michaela Pfeifer (2012): Categorical Differentiation in the Light of Deservingness Perceptions: Institutional Structures of Minimum Income Protection for Immigrants and for the Disabled. Pp. 161-189 in: Ive Marx, Kenneth Nelson (Eds.) Minimum Income Protection in Flux. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Bahle, Thomas, Michaela Pfeifer and Claus Wendt (2010): Social assistance. Pp. 448-461 in: Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press . more

Conference Presentations

Pfeifer, Michaela (2009): Ideas and Institutions: Protection for the unemployed and poor in Europe. [EQUALSOC INCDIS Workshop, Dublin, November 10th to November 11th, 2009] more
Bahle, Thomas, and Michaela Pfeifer (2008): Minimum income protection for the poor in Europe: growing need, declining public support?. [ESPAnet Conference 2008 "Cross-Border Influence in Social Policy", Helsinki, September 18th to September 20th, 2008] more
Mischke, Monika, Michaela Pfeifer and Claus Wendt (2008): Do Welfare State Institutions Provide Orientations?. [34. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziolgie: Unsichere Zeiten. Postersession, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, October 06th to October 10th, 2008] more
Pfeifer, Michaela (2008): Attitudes towards Minimum Income Protection and their Macro-economic Context. [Seminar at Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies: Theoretical understandings of welfare attitudes, Aalborg, Aalborg University, September 03rd, 2008] more
Pfeifer, Michaela (2008): Mapping European Minimum Income Schemes. [EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, WZB, Berlin, April 11th to April 12th, 2008] more
Pfeifer, Michaela (2008): Minimum income schemes and attitudes towards redistribution. [EQUALSOC/TRALEG Workshop: Welfare State Institutions and Welfare State Outcomes, Mannheim, March 06th to March 08th, 2008] more
Pfeifer, Michaela, and Monika Mischke (2007): Attitudes Towards Welfare State Institutions. [Fourteenth International Research Seminar on 'Issues in Social Security' - 'Social Security, Happiness and Well-Being'. The Foundation for International Studies of Social Security (FISS), Sigtuna, June 15th to June 17th, 2007] more
Pfeifer, Michaela (2007): State Interventions against Poverty: Public Perceptions in Europe. [RECwowe/ESPAnet Summer School 'Europe, Welfare and Work', Edinburgh, June 20th to June 30th, 2007] more