(2023):
Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe: Institutions, Challenges, and Solutions for Better Coordination.
Cheltenham, Northampton:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
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PD Dr. Thomas Bahle
Project director
Thomas.Bahle [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone:
+49-621-181-2028
Phone:
+49-621-181-2804Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131
Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
A5, 6
Room:520
68159
Mannheim
Research Interests
- Welfare state
- Family policy
- Social services
- Minimum income security and poverty
Projects
A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States
RP9 A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States
RP8 A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States
RP7 A1 Market Economies and Welfare States
RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification
RP6 AI Associated Projects
RP5 A2 Social Services and Social Security: The European Welfare States in Comparison
RP4 A2 Migration, Integration, and Ethnic Conflict
RP1-3 Department I : Living Conditions and Inequality in the Relationship between Social Structure and the Welfare State
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, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Claudia Göbel
(2015):
Familien am Rande der Erwerbsgesellschaft: Erwerbsrisiken und soziale Sicherung familiärer Risikogruppen im europäischen Vergleich.
Baden-Baden:
Nomos Edition Sigma.
[Forschung aus der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung ; 177]
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Bahle, Thomas, Vanessa Hubl and Michaela Pfeifer
(2011):
The last safety net. A handbook of minimum income protection in Europe.
Bristol:
Policy Press.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2007):
Wege zum Dienstleistungsstaat: Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Vergleich.
Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
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Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Thomas Bahle, Claus Wendt and Angelika Scheuer
(2007):
Report Lebensqualität 2006. Im Auftrag des Verbandes Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller.
Mannheim:
MZES.
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Pfenning, Astrid, and Thomas Bahle
(2000):
Families and Family Policies in Europe: Comparative Perspectives.
Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1995):
Familienpolitik in Westeuropa. Ursprünge und Wandel im internationalen Vergleich.
Frankfurt/NewYork:
Campus Verlag.
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Journal Articles
Bahle, Thomas, Claudia Göbel and Vanessa Hubl
(2013):
Familiäre Risikogruppen im europäischen Vergleich.
WSI Mitteilungen, issue 03/2013, pp. 192-200.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2008):
The state and social services in Britain, France and Germany since the 1980s. Reform and growth in a period of welfare state crisis.
European Societies, 10, issue 1, pp. 25-47.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2005):
Familienpolitik in der EU - was können wir von anderen Ländern lernen?.
Wirtschaftsdienst. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 85, issue 3, pp. 151-156.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2003):
Staat, Kirche und Familienpolitik in westeuropäischen Ländern. Ein historisch- soziologischer Vergleich.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), Sonderheft, issue 33, pp. 391-411.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2003):
The changing institutionalization of social services in England and Wales, France and Germany: is the welfare state on the retreat?.
Journal of European Social Policy, 13, issue 1, pp. 5-20.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1998):
Family Policy in Germany: Towards a Macro-sociological Frame for Analysis.
EURODATA Newsletter, issue 7, pp. 21-26.
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Bahle, Thomas, and Mathias Maucher
(1997):
The Mannheim International Family Policy Project: The Family Policies Database.
EURODATA Newsletter, issue 6, pp. 22-26.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1995):
Family Changes and Family Policies in the Western World. An international research project.
EURODATA Newsletter, issue 2, pp. 20.
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Book Chapters
Bahle, Thomas
(2019):
Soziale Mindestsicherung.
Pp. 761-782 in:
Herbert Obinger, Manfred G. Schmidt
(Eds.)
Handbuch Sozialpolitik.
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS.
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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 .
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Bahle, Thomas, Jürgen Kohl and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Welfare State.
Pp. 571-628 in:
Stefan Immerfall, Göran Therborn
(Eds.)
Handbook of European Societies.
New York:
Springer.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2009):
Public child care in Europe: historical trajectories and new directions.
Pp. 23-42 in:
Kirsten Scheiwe, Harry Willekens
(Eds.)
Child care and preschool development in Europe. Institutional perspectives.
Houndsmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2008):
Family policies patterns in the enlarged EU.
Pp. 100-125 in:
Jens Alber, Tony Fahey, Chiara Saraceno
(Eds.)
Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union.
London:
Routledge.
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Pfenning, Astrid, and Thomas Bahle
(2002):
Structures of Social Services in Germany.
Pp. 68-91 in:
Social services in transition - towards a European social services information system.
Frankfurt am Main:
Institut für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik.
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Bahle, Thomas
(2000):
The family dimension of the welfare state in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Pp. 143-164 in:
Hans-Joachim Schulze
(Ed.)
Stability and Complexity. Perspectives for a Child-Oriented Family Policy.
Amsterdam, Oxford, Boston:
VU University Press.
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Bahle, Thomas, and Mathias Maucher
(1998):
Aufbau einer komparativen Datenbank über Familienpolitik in Europa - ein Werkstattbericht.
Pp. 233-258 in:
Heinz-Herbert Noll, Peter Flora
(Eds.)
Sozialberichterstattung und Sozialstaatsbeobachtung. Individuelle Wohlfahrt und wohlfahrtsstaatliche Institutionen im Spiegel empirischer Analysen..
Frankfurt a.M./New York:
Campus.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1998):
Familienarbeit und Typen der Familienpolitik..
Pp. 125-138 in:
Andreas Netzler, Michael Opielka
(Eds.)
Neubewertung der Familienarbeit in der Sozialpolitik.
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Bahle, Thomas, and Franz Rothenbacher
(1998):
Family Policies in Germany: After Re-unification the Shock of Globalization.
Pp. 37-49 in:
Developments in National Family Policies in 1996.
Brüssel:
Europäische Kommission.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1996):
Familienpolitik in der Europäischen Union: Nationale Profile und europäischer Einfluß.
Pp. 271-289 in:
Thomas König, Elmar Rieger, Hermann Schmitt
(Eds.)
Das europäische Mehrebenensystem.
Frankfurt/New York:
Campus-Verlag.
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Bahle, Thomas, and Franz Rothenbacher
(1996):
Family Policy in Germany in 1995.
Pp. 25-36 in:
John Ditch, Helen Barnes, Jonathan Bradshaw
(Eds.)
Developments in National Family Policies in 1995.
Brussels:
European Commission.
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MZES Working Papers
Bahle, Thomas, and Mathias Maucher
(2003):
Kindergeldsysteme und Steuererleichterungen für Kinder in Westeuropa: institutionelle Merkmale und quantitative Indikatoren im Ländervergleich, 1950 - 2000.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 72]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Astrid Pfenning
(2001):
Angebotsformen und Trägerstrukturen sozialer Dienste im europäischen Vergleich.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 34]
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Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher, Katherina Fuduli and Beatrix Holzer
(1998):
Developing a family policy database for Europe.
Mannheim
[Arbeitsbereich I; 27]
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Bahle, Thomas, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher and Kirsten Scheiwe
(1992):
Family Change and Family Policy. A bibliography of studies and data sources.
Mannheim
[Arbeitsbereich I, Bibliographie; 1]
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Thesis
Bahle, Thomas
(2005):
Rückzug oder Expansion? - Der Wohlfahrtsstaat und die Reform sozialer Dienste in England und Wales, Frankreich und Deutschland, 1980-2000.
Mannheim:
Universität Mannheim.
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Papers / Reports
Hubl, Vanessa, and Thomas Bahle
(2012):
EuMin: Mindestsicherung in Europa. Datenbankdokumentation.
Mannheim
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Hubl, Vanessa, and Thomas Bahle
(2012):
EuMin: Minimum Income Protection in Europe. Database Documentation.
Mannheim
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Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Thomas Bahle, Claus Wendt and Angelika Scheuer
(2006):
VFA-Report Lebensqualität 2006.
Mannheim
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Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix, Peter Flora, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher and Harry Willekens
(2002):
Family Change and Family Policies: Belgium.
Mannheim
[Preprints of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research]
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Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix and Franz Rothenbacher
(2002):
Family Change and Family Policies: Germany.
Mannheim
[Preprints of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research]
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Conference Presentations
Ariaans, Mareike, and Thomas Bahle
(2016):
Mapping long-term care systems.
[NORFACE Workshop "Health Politics, Health Policy, Long-Term Care and Inequalities, University Mannheim / MZES, October 04th to October 06th, 2016]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus
(2014):
Am Rand der Erwerbsgesellschaft: Familiäre Risikogruppen in Deutschland im europäischen Vergleich.
[Arbeit, Familie, Teilhabe: Wie weiter auf dem Weg in eine lebenslauforientierte Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik? (Fachtagung Hans-Böckler-Stiftung), Berlin, June 23rd, 2014]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus
(2014):
Protecting families at risk in European welfare states: The impact of different policy mixes on poverty outcomes.
[12th Annual ESPAnet Conference "Beyond the Crisis in Europe - New Opportunities for reconciling sustainability, equality and economic robustness", Oslo, September 04th to September 06th, 2014]
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Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Thomas Bahle
(2014):
Protecting Families at Risk: The Importance of Employment and Social Policies for Combatting Household Poverty in Europe.
[ECSR 2014 Conference “Social Inequalities in Europe – On the Rise Again?”, WZB, Berlin, September 23rd to September 25th, 2014]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Vanessa Hubl
(2013):
Mindestsicherung als Ersatz für die Sozialversicherung? Evidenz aus Europa.
[WSI-Herbstforum "Aufbau statt Abbruch in Europa", Berlin, November 27th to November 28th, 2013]
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Bahle, Thomas
(2013):
Social transfers and income of family risk groups in and out of work.
[Conference "Beyond the Family Wage: Gender, Wages and Household Income in Germany and Abroad”, Universität Bremen, October 31st to November 01st, 2013]
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Göbel, Claudia, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Thomas Bahle and Vanessa Hubl
(2012):
Sozialer Schutz und Arbeitsmarktintegration familiärer Risikogruppen. Politiken und Lebenslagen im europäischen Vergleich.
[Beiratssitzung der Projekte zur HBS-Ausschreibung "Sozialstaaten und europäische Reformprozesse im Vergleich", WZB Berlin, September 12th, 2012]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Vanessa Hubl
(2010):
Mindestsicherung.
[2. Tagung 'Sozialversicherung: Wandel, Wirkung, Weiterentwicklung', Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, October 04th to October 05th, 2010]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Vanessa Hubl
(2010):
Mindestsicherung.
[1. Tagung 'Sozialversicherung: Wandel, Wirkung, Weiterentwicklung', Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, May 05th to May 06th, 2010]
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Bahle, Thomas
(2010):
Minimum income protection systems and benefit receipt.
[Meeting of the Equalsoc MIPI group, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, June 15th to June 16th, 2010]
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Bahle, Thomas
(2010):
The role of minimum income protection systems within social security systems.
[The global crisis: impact and challenges for social security. Seventeenth international research seminar on issues in social security. Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS)., Sigtuna, June 16th to June 18th, 2010]
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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]
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Bahle, Thomas, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus
(2008):
Vorstellung des ersten Zwischenberichts.
[Beiratssitzung zum 1. Zwischenbericht, Düsseldorf, October 17th, 2008]
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