APITZSCH, Birgit

Max Weber Fellow 2011-2012

Email Birgit.Apitzsch@EUI.eu 
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 684
Office VF 28

European University Institute
Max Weber Programme
Via delle Fontanelle 10
I-50014 San Domenico

Departmental affiliation: Political and Social Sciences 
Mentor: Martin Kohli   

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My general research interests are in institutional theory, especially institutional change in labour markets and its ramifications for social integration.

My dissertation addressed the question of how regulations of labour market access shape the outcomes of flexibilization processes. More specifically, I investigated the impact of the projectification of work and employment on the life course and on labour relations in labour market segments with varying degrees of professionalization.

I pursued my dissertation as a doctoral fellow of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy and as a visiting doctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University. I received my D.Phil. in 2009 (summa cum laude) from the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne I published the book out of my dissertation, Flexible employment, new dependencies.

Prior to joining the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow I was a researcher at the Sociology Department of the University of Duisburg-Essen. There I taught courses I designed on the sociology of work, labour markets and their institutional underpinnings, at both B.A. and M.A. level. 

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