Dr. Agnieszka Althaber

Dr. Phil.  Agnieszka Althaber, sociologist, research interests: Wealth and social inequalities, gender inequalities, couples and property, life course research, labour market research and occupations, quantitative research methods. PhD in sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, thesis: Part-time work in the life course of men - on the occupational structuring of transitions and consequences.

Postdoc researcher in subproject B06 “Property inequality in the private sphere”; 2010-2021 Research Group National Education Panel at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center; 2015 research stay at the University of Sydney, Australia; studies in sociology at the University of Leipzig and University of East London, UK.

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Activities

Publications

  • Althaber, A.; Leuze, K.; Künzel, R. (2023): “Financial Solidarity or Autonomy? How Gendered Wealth and Income Inequalities Influence Couples’ Money Management”, In: Social Inclusion, 11(1), 187–199. DOI: 10.17645/si.v11i1.6005
  • Althaber, Agnieszka (2022): Teilzeitarbeit im Lebensverlauf von Männern. Zur beruflichen Strukturierung von Übergängen und Konsequenzen, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Budrich Academic Press. Open-Access: https://shop.budrich.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/9783966659529.pdf
  • Althaber, A.; Leuze, K. (2020): “Der Einfluss der beruflichen Geschlechtersegregation und beruflicher Arbeitszeitarrangements auf Teilzeitarbeit”, In: Ebner, Christian; Haupt, Andreas; Matthes, Britta (eds.): Berufe und soziale Ungleichheit, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft 60. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 317-349. DOI:10.1007/s11577-020-00666-3
  • Allmendinger, J.; Kleinert, C.; Pollak, R.; Vicari, B.; Wölfel, O.; Althaber, A.; Antoni, M.; Christoph, B.; Drasch, K.; Janik, F.; Künster, R.; Laible, M.; Leuze, K.; Matthes, B.; Ruland, M.; Schulz, B.; Trahms, A. (2019): “Adult Education and Lifelong Learning”, in: Blossfeld, Hans-Peter and Roßbach, Hans-Günther (eds.): Education as a lifelong process: the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Second revised edition. Edition Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 325-346. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-23162-0_17
  • Althaber, Agnieszka (2018): “Die Suche nach Gemeinsamkeiten. Strukturelle Gründe für die Teilzeitarbeit von Frauen und Männern”, In: WZB-Mitteilungen, (161), 17-20.
  • Althaber, A.; Ruland, M. (2015): “Children can wait. Women working in higher-status occupations tend to postpone family formation”, In: WZB Report 2015, 29–31, Berlin.
  • Althaber, A.; Hess, J. & Pfahl, L. (2011): “Karriere mit Kind in der Wissenschaft. Egalitärer Anspruch und tradierte Wirklichkeit der familiären Betreuungsarrangements von erfolgreichen Frauen und ihren Partnern”, In: Alessandra Rusconi, Heike Solga (eds.): Gemeinsam Karriere machen. Die Verflechtung von Berufskarrieren und Familie in Akademikerpartnerschaften, Opladen u.a.: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 83-116.

Lectures (selection)

  • Althaber, A., Kapelle, N., & Leuze, K.: Bis dass der Tod uns scheidet? Die Geldverwaltung von Paaren in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Spring Conference of the Family Sociology Section of the DGS, Bamberg. (16.05.2024)
  • Althaber, A., Kapelle, N., & Leuze, K.: Until Death Do Us Part? Couples’ relative resources and money management strategies in Eastern and Western Germany. Conference “Ungleichheit und Zusammenhalt” of the Section for Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis of the German Sociological Association and the Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Bremen. (05.03.2024)
  • Klusáček, J., & Althaber, A.: Does financial integration make romantic partners happier? Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. European Consortium for Sociological Research Annual Conference 2023, Prague. (19.09.2023)
  • Althaber, A., & Leuze, K.: Can Couples' Money Management Mitigate Wealth and Income Inequalities between Partners? A Comparison of East and West Germany. Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, University of Michigan. ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Ann Arbor. (23.08.2023)
  • Althaber, A., & Leuze, K.: Mein, dein oder unser Geld? Ressourcenungleichheiten und die Geldverwaltung von Paaren in Ost- und Westdeutschland. GESIS.Spring Conference of the Section "Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis", Mannheim. (23.03.2023)
  • Althaber, A., & Leuze, K.: Einigkeit in Geldfragen? Quantitative Forschungsergebnisse zu Eigentumsungleichheiten und der Geldverwaltung von Paaren in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.  Research colloquium Couples sociological. A qualitative and quantitative liaison, Jena. (08.02.2023)
  • Althaber, A., & Leuze, K.: More money, more power? How wealth and income inequalities in couple households influence partners' money management in East and West Germany. Universität Bielefeld. Ad hoc group “Polarizations by Wealth? Institutional determinants and consequences of wealth inequalities”. 41. Congress of the German Sociological Association, Bielefeld. (27.09.2022)
  • Althaber, A., Leuze, K., & Künzel, R.: Wealth and Money in Couple Households: How do gendered income and wealth inequalities influence couples’ money management? London School of Economics and Political Science. ISA RC28 Spring Meeting “Social Stratification and Social Policy for a Post-Covid19 World”, London. (21.04.2022)
  • Althaber, A., & Saalfeld, R. K.: Eigentumsungleichheit in Paarbeziehungen. Theoretische Herausforderungen in einem methodenintegrativen Forschungsprojekt. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.Mixed Methods in Social Structure Analysis: Integration Potentials of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Approaches Göttingen. (01.04.2022)

Events

  • Early Researchers Workshop "Challenging Conventions in Academia” for SFB TRR 294 Structural Change of Property, Augustinerkloster, Erfurt, 4.10.2023.
  • conference "Ungleichheiten in Ost- und Westdeutschland – Persistenz oder Wandel?” of the Section Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis of the German Sociological Association, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 25./26.09.2023.
  • ECSR Network Workshop "Wealth Inequalities, Gender, and Family Structures”, Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham, UK, 15./16.06.2023.
  • Ad-Hoc-Gruppe "Polarizations by Wealth? Institutional determinants and consequences of wealth inequalities.“ on 41. Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Universität Bielefeld. 27.09.2022.
  • SFB Methods Workshop "Exploring Property - Research Designs and First Field Experiences in the SFB/Transregio Structural Change of Property". Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 24./25.03.2022.
  • Workshop "Schreibprozesse, Schreibroutinen & Schreibgruppen für Docs & Post-docs“  carried out by Dr. Lena Eckert, Organisation: Agnieszka Althaber, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 16./17.02.2022
  • Early Researchers Retreat of SFB TRR 294Structural Change of Property, Agnieszka Althaber together with Jacob Blumenfeld, Henrike Katzer, Sophie Jossi-Silverstein. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 13./14.09.2021.

Subprojects

B06 Property inequality in the private sphere: On the institutional and cultural (re-)structuring of ownership arrangements of couples

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