Projects
Ongoing Projects
Perceptions of Inequalities and Justice in Europe (PIJE)
The project aims to analyze how inequalities are perceived and evaluated across Europe, to identify the socio-economic factors shaping whether people regard inequalities as fair or unfair, and to examine how these evaluations influence social, political, and policy outcomes such as social cohesion, trust in democratic institutions, and political engagement.
Completed Projects
Explaining Preferences for Redistributive Taxation (Dissertation)
Although several countries in Europe have experienced rising levels of inequality in the last couple of decades, public demands for redistributive taxes remained on similar levels or even decreased. In this dissertation, I argue that we can understand this phenomenon by acknowledging the role of limited public information about inequality and tax rates and the importance of fairness heuristics in enabling individuals to demand redistribution by taxes.
Work and Corona (WoCo)
This project explores the transformation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. In collaboration with the Austrian Corona Panel Project, it developed survey waves focusing on changes in work, as well as work-related attitudes and preferences. The project’s central goal was to create a publicly accessible website enabling users to explore shifts in attitudes, behaviors, and preferences through an interactive dashboard.
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Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP)
The Austrian Corona Panel Project is the largest social survey project to cover the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria. The panel covers nearly two years of the pandemic, fielding 26 survey waves with roughly 1,500 respondents each wave. The dataset contains over 1,000 variables and is publicly available.
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JUSAW
The project JUSAW (Jung und auf der Suche nach Arbeit in Wien — Young and searching for a job in Vienna) investigated the consequences of early career unemployment in Austria’s capital Vienna. The project conducted a two-wave panel study at the start of an unemployment spell and a year afterwards. In addition, a field experiment investigated the impact of small nudges on unemployed individuals’ chances of finding a job.
CUPESSE
Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship was an EU-FP7-SSH funded project of 12 universities led by Jale Tosun from the University of Heidelberg. It aimed at analysing youth unemployment in Europe following the economic crisis. Besides publishing several papers and a book, it generated qualitative as well as quantitative data from 14 countries.