Simone Scherger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1435201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Scherger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Scherger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1708-1372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wohlfahrtsstaat und Legitimation – Wie denkt Offe über den Wohlfahrtsstaat: Claus Offe , Macht und Effizienz. Studien zur kapitalistischen Rationalisierung der Arbeit, Wiesbaden: Springer VS (Ausgewäh…
In den vergangenen Monaten stand der Wohlfahrtsstaat in Deutschland und anderswo (noch) strker als zuvor im Mittelpunkt ffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit
Geschlechterungleichheiten in Arbeit, Wohlfahrtsstaat und Familie
In den letzten Jahrzehnten gab es Erfolge in der Bekämpfung von Ungleichheiten zwischen Männern und Frauen. Gleichzeitig verringern sich diese Ungleichheiten nur langsam. Die Autor_innen diskutieren die (wohlfahrts-)staatliche Regulierung von Geschlechterverhältnissen. Neben konzeptionellen Überlegungen stehen dabei quantitative und qualitative Befunde zu erwerbsbezogenen, wohlfahrtsstaatlichen und anderen Ungleichheiten im Mittelpunkt. Zudem wer…
Flexibilizing the Retirement Transition: Why, How and for Whom? Conceptual Clarifications, Institutional Arrangements and Potential Consequences
In many countries, flexibilizing the retirement transition is seen as an innovative policy which may help to solve some of the problems ageing societies face. The paper aims at specifying what is or can be meant by flexibilizing the retirement transition. The proposed conceptual framework contributes to a better understanding of the potential individual and structural consequences of flexibilized retirement transitions. It spells out four dimensi…
The Effects of Taking Up Employment After Pension Age on Self-Rated Health in Germany and the UK: Evidence Based on Fixed Effects Models
This article analyses the effects on self-rated health of taking up paid work again after pension age. With the United Kingdom and Germany, two different institutional contexts are studied. Using fixed effects models and based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we estimate the individual effects of taking up work again on self-rated health, and differentiate between taking up work i…
By the sweat of their brow? The effects of starting work again after pension age on life satisfaction in Germany and the United Kingdom
In recent years, the employment rates of people of pension age have increased considerably. However, longitudinal evidence on the effects of this employment on wellbeing which might contribute to an evaluation of this late-life work is scarce. Based on empirical findings so far and on theoretical approaches to wellbeing, work and retirement, both negative and positive effects of post-retirement work on life satisfaction are plausible. In this pap…
Increasing pension age — Inevitable or unfeasible? Analysing the ideas underlying experts' arguments in the UK and Germany
Working Pensioners in Germany and the UK: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence on Gender, Marital Status, and the Reasons for Working
Work and Family Trajectories: Changes Across Cohorts Born in the First Half of the 20th Century
Leisure activities and retirement: Do structures of inequality change in old age
In this paper, relationships between old age, retirement and social inequalities, as marked by participation in leisure activities, are examined. Two issues are tackled: first, whether old age and particularly the transition into retirement have an effect on participation in three selected activities; and second, whether the social inequalities underlying these activities change with older age and retirement. The empirical investigation uses data…
Cultural Transmission, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
This paper examines the relationship between cultural socialisation, educational attainment and intergenerational social mobility. Picking up on debates about the transmission of cultural capital and social advantage, we use data from the Taking Part Survey of England to analyse how far socialisation into cultural activities and encouragement play a role in educational attainment, intergenerational mobility and in the reproduction of class. This …
Cultural practices, age and the life course
Social science studies of cultural activity commonly focus on class, gender and ethnicity and often treat age as an unimportant background variable. This article demonstrates the central importance of age as a factor affecting cultural consumption, using data from the “Taking Part” Survey of England. As well as seeking to describe the main aspects of age differentiation, the article unpacks what is often called, in a simplified way, “age effects”…
Social Change and the Timing of Family Transitions in West Germany: Evidence from cohort comparisons
This article addresses the timing of family transitions in early adulthood. Theoretical and empirical analyses are used to investigate the appropriateness of the notions of destandardization, differentiation and individualization for characterizing recent changes in West German life courses. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used for a comparison of (West German) birth cohorts and the respective timing of moving out of the par…
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung: Westdeutsche Lebensläufe Im Wandel
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung – dies sind drei wichtige der zahlreichen Diagnosen, die beschreiben sollen, wie sich die Lebensläufe von Männern und Frauen in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert haben. Simone Scherger nimmt diese drei Stichworte auf und untersucht ihren theoretischen und empirischen Gehalt. Auf der Grundlage einer Diskussion der Begriffe und ihrer theoretischen Implikationen nimmt sie mittels des Sozio-Ökon…
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung: Westdeutsche Lebensla ufe im Wandel
Cultural Transmission, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
This paper examines the relationship between cultural socialisation, educational attainment and intergenerational social mobility. Picking up on debates about the transmission of cultural capital and social advantage, we use data from the Taking Part Survey of England to analyse how far socialisation into cultural activities and encouragement play a role in educational attainment, intergenerational mobility and in the reproduction of class. This …
Leisure activities and retirement: Do structures of inequality change in old age
In this paper, relationships between old age, retirement and social inequalities, as marked by participation in leisure activities, are examined. Two issues are tackled: first, whether old age and particularly the transition into retirement have an effect on participation in three selected activities; and second, whether the social inequalities underlying these activities change with older age and retirement. The empirical investigation uses data…
Cultural practices, age and the life course
Social science studies of cultural activity commonly focus on class, gender and ethnicity and often treat age as an unimportant background variable. This article demonstrates the central importance of age as a factor affecting cultural consumption, using data from the “Taking Part” Survey of England. As well as seeking to describe the main aspects of age differentiation, the article unpacks what is often called, in a simplified way, “age effects”…
Social Change and the Timing of Family Transitions in West Germany: Evidence from cohort comparisons
This article addresses the timing of family transitions in early adulthood. Theoretical and empirical analyses are used to investigate the appropriateness of the notions of destandardization, differentiation and individualization for characterizing recent changes in West German life courses. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used for a comparison of (West German) birth cohorts and the respective timing of moving out of the par…
Work and Family Trajectories: Changes Across Cohorts Born in the First Half of the 20th Century
Working Pensioners in Germany and the UK: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence on Gender, Marital Status, and the Reasons for Working
By the sweat of their brow? The effects of starting work again after pension age on life satisfaction in Germany and the United Kingdom
In recent years, the employment rates of people of pension age have increased considerably. However, longitudinal evidence on the effects of this employment on wellbeing which might contribute to an evaluation of this late-life work is scarce. Based on empirical findings so far and on theoretical approaches to wellbeing, work and retirement, both negative and positive effects of post-retirement work on life satisfaction are plausible. In this pap…
Increasing pension age — Inevitable or unfeasible? Analysing the ideas underlying experts' arguments in the UK and Germany
The Effects of Taking Up Employment After Pension Age on Self-Rated Health in Germany and the UK: Evidence Based on Fixed Effects Models
This article analyses the effects on self-rated health of taking up paid work again after pension age. With the United Kingdom and Germany, two different institutional contexts are studied. Using fixed effects models and based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we estimate the individual effects of taking up work again on self-rated health, and differentiate between taking up work i…
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung: Westdeutsche Lebensla ufe im Wandel
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung – dies sind drei wichtige der zahlreichen Diagnosen, die beschreiben sollen, wie sich die Lebensläufe von Männern und Frauen in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert haben. Simone Scherger nimmt diese drei Stichworte auf und untersucht ihren theoretischen und empirischen Gehalt. Auf der Grundlage einer Diskussion der Begriffe und ihrer theoretischen Implikationen nimmt sie mittels des Sozio-Ökon…
Destandardisierung, Differenzierung, Individualisierung: Westdeutsche Lebensläufe Im Wandel
Cultural practices, age and the life course
Social science studies of cultural activity commonly focus on class, gender and ethnicity and often treat age as an unimportant background variable. This article demonstrates the central importance of age as a factor affecting cultural consumption, using data from the “Taking Part” Survey of England. As well as seeking to describe the main aspects of age differentiation, the article unpacks what is often called, in a simplified way, “age effects”…
Social Change and the Timing of Family Transitions in West Germany: Evidence from cohort comparisons
This article addresses the timing of family transitions in early adulthood. Theoretical and empirical analyses are used to investigate the appropriateness of the notions of destandardization, differentiation and individualization for characterizing recent changes in West German life courses. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used for a comparison of (West German) birth cohorts and the respective timing of moving out of the par…
Cultural Transmission, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
This paper examines the relationship between cultural socialisation, educational attainment and intergenerational social mobility. Picking up on debates about the transmission of cultural capital and social advantage, we use data from the Taking Part Survey of England to analyse how far socialisation into cultural activities and encouragement play a role in educational attainment, intergenerational mobility and in the reproduction of class. This …
Leisure activities and retirement: Do structures of inequality change in old age
In this paper, relationships between old age, retirement and social inequalities, as marked by participation in leisure activities, are examined. Two issues are tackled: first, whether old age and particularly the transition into retirement have an effect on participation in three selected activities; and second, whether the social inequalities underlying these activities change with older age and retirement. The empirical investigation uses data…
Working Pensioners in Germany and the UK: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence on Gender, Marital Status, and the Reasons for Working
Work and Family Trajectories: Changes Across Cohorts Born in the First Half of the 20th Century
Increasing pension age — Inevitable or unfeasible? Analysing the ideas underlying experts' arguments in the UK and Germany
By the sweat of their brow? The effects of starting work again after pension age on life satisfaction in Germany and the United Kingdom
In recent years, the employment rates of people of pension age have increased considerably. However, longitudinal evidence on the effects of this employment on wellbeing which might contribute to an evaluation of this late-life work is scarce. Based on empirical findings so far and on theoretical approaches to wellbeing, work and retirement, both negative and positive effects of post-retirement work on life satisfaction are plausible. In this pap…
The Effects of Taking Up Employment After Pension Age on Self-Rated Health in Germany and the UK: Evidence Based on Fixed Effects Models
This article analyses the effects on self-rated health of taking up paid work again after pension age. With the United Kingdom and Germany, two different institutional contexts are studied. Using fixed effects models and based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we estimate the individual effects of taking up work again on self-rated health, and differentiate between taking up work i…
Wohlfahrtsstaat und Legitimation – Wie denkt Offe über den Wohlfahrtsstaat: Claus Offe , Macht und Effizienz. Studien zur kapitalistischen Rationalisierung der Arbeit, Wiesbaden: Springer VS (Ausgewäh…
In den vergangenen Monaten stand der Wohlfahrtsstaat in Deutschland und anderswo (noch) strker als zuvor im Mittelpunkt ffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit
Geschlechterungleichheiten in Arbeit, Wohlfahrtsstaat und Familie
In den letzten Jahrzehnten gab es Erfolge in der Bekämpfung von Ungleichheiten zwischen Männern und Frauen. Gleichzeitig verringern sich diese Ungleichheiten nur langsam. Die Autor_innen diskutieren die (wohlfahrts-)staatliche Regulierung von Geschlechterverhältnissen. Neben konzeptionellen Überlegungen stehen dabei quantitative und qualitative Befunde zu erwerbsbezogenen, wohlfahrtsstaatlichen und anderen Ungleichheiten im Mittelpunkt. Zudem wer…
Flexibilizing the Retirement Transition: Why, How and for Whom? Conceptual Clarifications, Institutional Arrangements and Potential Consequences
In many countries, flexibilizing the retirement transition is seen as an innovative policy which may help to solve some of the problems ageing societies face. The paper aims at specifying what is or can be meant by flexibilizing the retirement transition. The proposed conceptual framework contributes to a better understanding of the potential individual and structural consequences of flexibilized retirement transitions. It spells out four dimensi…
Psychology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · German (5 works) · Pension (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Demography (4 works)