Research Group Leader: 

Caroline Berghammer

Researchers:  

Sara Fürnkranz, Gwen Göltl, Melanie Wagner

The research group “Family and Labour Market” studies how families and couples organise paid and unpaid work – considering e.g. part-time employment, flexible employment, housework and childcare – and examines the resulting impacts on demographic behaviour (e.g. fertility, union dissolution), well-being and gender equality. Another focus of our work includes studying gender role ideologies. We also investigate how demographic behaviour influences paid and unpaid work as well as other dimensions of inequality (e.g. poverty). Our research takes into account different family and partnership forms including single parents, same-sex couples and cohabiting couples. We use comparative survey data (e.g. Generations and Gender Surveys, time use surveys, EU Labour Force Surveys) as well as register data.