Dirk Hofäcker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Hofäcker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofäcker |
| SIGNATURE | HOFACKER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2747-5765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Multidisciplinary perspectives on participatory research projects of educational sciences, psychology and sociology: Reflections about critical factors
In this paper, critical variables in participatory research are addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective on the basis of experiences from previous research projects in educational sciences, psychology, and sociology. An overview of multidisciplinary perspectives on participatory research is provided, including key factors for (successful) participatory processes on an individual and collective level. With that, we aim to stimulate future re…
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the Neet rate
This article examines the capability of various welfare states to mitigate youth vulnerability, operationalized as a low NEET rate. It aims to complement existing empirical knowledge with a novel set of indicators and Europe-wide configurational comparison of youth welfare regimes. A QCA-based analysis of 26 European countries revealed two routes with different sets of compensatory and social investment policies that lead to the effective mitigat…
Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: The Multifaceted Consequences of Labour Market Insecurity
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent consequences. Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social exclusion. Drawing on rich pan-Europ…
Trends and Determinants of Work-Retirement Transitions under Changing Institutional Conditions: Germany, England and Japan compared
Many governments world-wide are promoting longer working life due to the social and economic repercussions of demographic change. However, not all workers are equally able to extend their employment careers. Thus, while national policies raise the overall level of labour market participation, they might create new social and labour market inequalities. This paper explores how institutional differences in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan affe…
In line or at odds with active ageing policies? Exploring patterns of retirement preferences in Europe
Faced with demographic ageing, European policy makers since the mid-1990s have taken a turn from fostering early retirement to promoting longer working life by reducing early exit incentives and facilitating work continuation. However, it remains open whether these reforms are yet reflected in the retirement plans and preferences of future pensioners’ cohorts. Using most recent data on desired retirement ages from the fifth wave of the European S…
The politics of parental leave policies: Children, Parenting, Gender and the Labour Market
In recent decades, parental leave policies have turned into a key component of family policy packages within advanced societies to help reconcile work and family and reduce gender inequality. While
Social mobility and inequality in the life course: Exploring the relevance of context
Flexibility and work‐life conflict in times of crisis: A gender perspective
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of flexible working conditions on work‐family conflict in European countries. Flexible work has increasingly been used by employers to adapt to the demands of economic competition, often at the expense of employee's demands. Yet, at the same time, flexible work can provide a means to better combine work and family obligations. The paper seeks to explore which of these effects dominates for diffe…
Exploring the ‘new worlds’ of (late?) retirement in Europe
After a long period of promoting early retirement, European societies have recently started to implement various reforms aimed at fostering a longer working life. Yet cross-national variations in older workers' employment remain, as institutional path dependency, socio-economic climate and persistent retirement culture have not allowed all countries to implement reforms to the same degree. In our paper, we provide an up-to-date international over…
Reversing Early Retirement in Advanced Welfare EconomiesA Paradigm Shift to Overcome Push and Pull Factors
Recent reform efforts of advanced welfare states have attempted to reverse trends in early retirement and increase the statutory retirement age. This paradigm shift often occurred against the protest of unions, firms and their employees. As a consequence of expanding welfare states and as response to economic challenges since the 1970s early exit from work has become a widespread practice. Early retirement has been part of Continental Europe's we…
The Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work in Different Institutional Regimes: Comparing West Germany, East Germany and Bulgaria
The division of paid and unpaid work between spouses is essential for the placement of women within paid work, and hence implies several consequences—for the returns, which women receive for their education, for women's employment status in the active age, for women's horizontal and vertical labour segregation, and for their amount of pensions after retirement. Previous findings suggest that there exist systematic relationships between a country'…
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life Course. Patterns in Modern Societies: A Summary of the Results from the Globalife-Project
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Väter im internationalen Vergleich
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Patterns of Family Life Courses in Europe – between Standardisation and Diversity A Cross-national Comparison of Family Trajectories and Life Course Norms in European Countries
Throughout recent decades, a gradual shift away from an early contracted and simple life course pattern which dominated in the 1950s and 1960s to late protracted and more complex patterns could be observed within European countries. Yet, despite multiple cross-national similarities in the changes of individual life course patterns, there exist considerable differences in the form and frequency of these changes. We argue that one possible way of b…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Reversing Early Retirement in Advanced Welfare EconomiesA Paradigm Shift to Overcome Push and Pull Factors
Recent reform efforts of advanced welfare states have attempted to reverse trends in early retirement and increase the statutory retirement age. This paradigm shift often occurred against the protest of unions, firms and their employees. As a consequence of expanding welfare states and as response to economic challenges since the 1970s early exit from work has become a widespread practice. Early retirement has been part of Continental Europe's we…
In line or at odds with active ageing policies? Exploring patterns of retirement preferences in Europe
Faced with demographic ageing, European policy makers since the mid-1990s have taken a turn from fostering early retirement to promoting longer working life by reducing early exit incentives and facilitating work continuation. However, it remains open whether these reforms are yet reflected in the retirement plans and preferences of future pensioners’ cohorts. Using most recent data on desired retirement ages from the fifth wave of the European S…
The Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work in Different Institutional Regimes: Comparing West Germany, East Germany and Bulgaria
The division of paid and unpaid work between spouses is essential for the placement of women within paid work, and hence implies several consequences—for the returns, which women receive for their education, for women's employment status in the active age, for women's horizontal and vertical labour segregation, and for their amount of pensions after retirement. Previous findings suggest that there exist systematic relationships between a country'…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Exploring the ‘new worlds’ of (late?) retirement in Europe
After a long period of promoting early retirement, European societies have recently started to implement various reforms aimed at fostering a longer working life. Yet cross-national variations in older workers' employment remain, as institutional path dependency, socio-economic climate and persistent retirement culture have not allowed all countries to implement reforms to the same degree. In our paper, we provide an up-to-date international over…
Flexibility and work‐life conflict in times of crisis: A gender perspective
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of flexible working conditions on work‐family conflict in European countries. Flexible work has increasingly been used by employers to adapt to the demands of economic competition, often at the expense of employee's demands. Yet, at the same time, flexible work can provide a means to better combine work and family obligations. The paper seeks to explore which of these effects dominates for diffe…
Trends and Determinants of Work-Retirement Transitions under Changing Institutional Conditions: Germany, England and Japan compared
Many governments world-wide are promoting longer working life due to the social and economic repercussions of demographic change. However, not all workers are equally able to extend their employment careers. Thus, while national policies raise the overall level of labour market participation, they might create new social and labour market inequalities. This paper explores how institutional differences in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan affe…
The politics of parental leave policies: Children, Parenting, Gender and the Labour Market
In recent decades, parental leave policies have turned into a key component of family policy packages within advanced societies to help reconcile work and family and reduce gender inequality. While
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Social mobility and inequality in the life course: Exploring the relevance of context
Patterns of Family Life Courses in Europe – between Standardisation and Diversity A Cross-national Comparison of Family Trajectories and Life Course Norms in European Countries
Throughout recent decades, a gradual shift away from an early contracted and simple life course pattern which dominated in the 1950s and 1960s to late protracted and more complex patterns could be observed within European countries. Yet, despite multiple cross-national similarities in the changes of individual life course patterns, there exist considerable differences in the form and frequency of these changes. We argue that one possible way of b…
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the Neet rate
This article examines the capability of various welfare states to mitigate youth vulnerability, operationalized as a low NEET rate. It aims to complement existing empirical knowledge with a novel set of indicators and Europe-wide configurational comparison of youth welfare regimes. A QCA-based analysis of 26 European countries revealed two routes with different sets of compensatory and social investment policies that lead to the effective mitigat…
Patterns of Family Life Courses in Europe – between Standardisation and Diversity A Cross-national Comparison of Family Trajectories and Life Course Norms in European Countries
Throughout recent decades, a gradual shift away from an early contracted and simple life course pattern which dominated in the 1950s and 1960s to late protracted and more complex patterns could be observed within European countries. Yet, despite multiple cross-national similarities in the changes of individual life course patterns, there exist considerable differences in the form and frequency of these changes. We argue that one possible way of b…
Väter im internationalen Vergleich
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Globalization, Institutional Filters and Changing Life Course. Patterns in Modern Societies: A Summary of the Results from the Globalife-Project
Social mobility and inequality in the life course: Exploring the relevance of context
Flexibility and work‐life conflict in times of crisis: A gender perspective
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of flexible working conditions on work‐family conflict in European countries. Flexible work has increasingly been used by employers to adapt to the demands of economic competition, often at the expense of employee's demands. Yet, at the same time, flexible work can provide a means to better combine work and family obligations. The paper seeks to explore which of these effects dominates for diffe…
Exploring the ‘new worlds’ of (late?) retirement in Europe
After a long period of promoting early retirement, European societies have recently started to implement various reforms aimed at fostering a longer working life. Yet cross-national variations in older workers' employment remain, as institutional path dependency, socio-economic climate and persistent retirement culture have not allowed all countries to implement reforms to the same degree. In our paper, we provide an up-to-date international over…
Reversing Early Retirement in Advanced Welfare EconomiesA Paradigm Shift to Overcome Push and Pull Factors
Recent reform efforts of advanced welfare states have attempted to reverse trends in early retirement and increase the statutory retirement age. This paradigm shift often occurred against the protest of unions, firms and their employees. As a consequence of expanding welfare states and as response to economic challenges since the 1970s early exit from work has become a widespread practice. Early retirement has been part of Continental Europe's we…
The Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work in Different Institutional Regimes: Comparing West Germany, East Germany and Bulgaria
The division of paid and unpaid work between spouses is essential for the placement of women within paid work, and hence implies several consequences—for the returns, which women receive for their education, for women's employment status in the active age, for women's horizontal and vertical labour segregation, and for their amount of pensions after retirement. Previous findings suggest that there exist systematic relationships between a country'…
The politics of parental leave policies: Children, Parenting, Gender and the Labour Market
In recent decades, parental leave policies have turned into a key component of family policy packages within advanced societies to help reconcile work and family and reduce gender inequality. While
In line or at odds with active ageing policies? Exploring patterns of retirement preferences in Europe
Faced with demographic ageing, European policy makers since the mid-1990s have taken a turn from fostering early retirement to promoting longer working life by reducing early exit incentives and facilitating work continuation. However, it remains open whether these reforms are yet reflected in the retirement plans and preferences of future pensioners’ cohorts. Using most recent data on desired retirement ages from the fifth wave of the European S…
Trends and Determinants of Work-Retirement Transitions under Changing Institutional Conditions: Germany, England and Japan compared
Many governments world-wide are promoting longer working life due to the social and economic repercussions of demographic change. However, not all workers are equally able to extend their employment careers. Thus, while national policies raise the overall level of labour market participation, they might create new social and labour market inequalities. This paper explores how institutional differences in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan affe…
Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: The Multifaceted Consequences of Labour Market Insecurity
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent consequences. Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social exclusion. Drawing on rich pan-Europ…
Multidisciplinary perspectives on participatory research projects of educational sciences, psychology and sociology: Reflections about critical factors
In this paper, critical variables in participatory research are addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective on the basis of experiences from previous research projects in educational sciences, psychology, and sociology. An overview of multidisciplinary perspectives on participatory research is provided, including key factors for (successful) participatory processes on an individual and collective level. With that, we aim to stimulate future re…
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the Neet rate
This article examines the capability of various welfare states to mitigate youth vulnerability, operationalized as a low NEET rate. It aims to complement existing empirical knowledge with a novel set of indicators and Europe-wide configurational comparison of youth welfare regimes. A QCA-based analysis of 26 European countries revealed two routes with different sets of compensatory and social investment policies that lead to the effective mitigat…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Development economics (5 works)