Academic research

Research interests

Perspectives

Social stratification, international comparative approach

Fields

Labor markets, families, and health

Methods

Longitudinal data analysis, methods of modern causal analysis, multilevel analysis of comparative micro data

Publications

Dissertation

Voßemer, J. (2019). The economic and non-economic consequences of job loss, unemployment, and inadequate re-employment in Germany and Europe. Bamberg: opus. doi: 10.20378/irbo-5454
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Articles

(*) SSCI-listed

2023

Högberg, B., Baranowska-Rataj, A., & Voßemer, J. (2023).  Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: Evidence from Swedish register data. European Sociological Review , 1-14. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcad005 (*)
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2022

Heyne, S., & Voßemer, J. (2022). Gender, unemployment, and subjective well-being: Why do women suffer less from unemployment than men? European Sociological Review, 1–16. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcac030 (*)

2021

Scheuring, S., Voßemer, J., Baranowska-Rataj, A., & Tattarini, G. (2021). Does fixed-term employment have spillover effects on the well-being of partners? A panel data analysis for East and West Germany. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 3001-3021. doi: 10.1007/s10902-020-00353-2 (*)
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2019

Högberg, B., Voßemer, J., Gebel, M., & Strandh, M. (2019). Unemployment, wellbeing and the moderating role of education policies: A multilevel study. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 60(4), 269–291. doi: 10.1177/0020715219874386 (*)

Voßemer, J., & Heyne, S. (2019). Unemployment and housework in couples: Task-specific differences and dynamics over time. Journal of Marriage and Family, 81(5), 1074–1090. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12602 (*)

Voßemer, J. (2019). Losing standard employment in Germany: The consequences of displacement and dismissal for workers’ subsequent careers. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 63, 100420. doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2019.100420 (*)

Voßemer, J. (2019). The effects of unemployment on non-monetary job quality in Europe: The moderating role of economic situation and labor market policies. Social Indicators Research, 144(1), 379–401. doi: 10.1007/s11205-018-2044-7 (*)
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2018

Voßemer, J., Gebel, M., Nizalova,  O. & O. Nikolaieva (2018). The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe. Advances in Life Course Studies, 35, 69–76. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2018.01.001 (*)
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Voßemer, J., Gebel, M., Täht, K., Unt, M., Högberg, M. &  M. Strandh (2018). The effects of unemployment and insecure jobs on well-being and health: The moderating role of labor market policies. Social Indicators Research, 138(3), 1229–1257. doi: 10.1007/s11205-017-1697-y (*)
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2016

Voßemer, J. & B. Schuck (2016). Better overeducated than unemployed? The short- and long-term effects of an overeducated labor market re-entry. European Sociological Review, 32(2), 251–265. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcv093 (*)
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2014

Gebel, M. & J. Voßemer (2014). The impact of employment transitions on health in Germany. A difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach. Social Science & Medicine, 108, 128–136.  doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.039 (*)

Working papers

Högberg B., Baranowska-Rataj, A., & Voßemer, J. (2021). Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: Evidence from Swedish register data. CEDAR Working Papers 2021: 20.
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Voßemer, J., & Baranowska-Rataj, A. (2020). Partner’s unemployment and well-being: the mediating role of relationship quality and stability. CEDAR Working Papers 2020: 4.
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Gebel M. & Voßemer, J. (2018). Synthesis of findings of WP4: Consequences of labour market insecurity on youth`s well-being and health. In Unt, M. & Gebel, M. (Eds.) Synthesis of the main empirical findings of EXCEPT project, EXCEPT Working Papers, WP No. 57. Tallin University, Tallinn.
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Baranowska-Rataj, A. et al. (2016). Interdependencies between labour market insecurity and well-being - evidence from panel data. EXCEPT Working Papers, WP No. 8. Tallinn University, Tallinn.
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Athanasiades, C. et al (2016). Report on the impact of the institutional setting and policies on well-being and health of youth in insecure labour market positions in EU-28 an Ukraine. EXCEPT Working Papers, WP No. 7. Tallinn University, Tallinn.
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Voßemer, J. & N. Eunicke (2015). The impact of labor market exclusion and job insecurity on health and well-being among youth - a literature review. EXCEPT Working Papers, WP No 2. Tallinn University, Tallinn.
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Presentations and workshops (current and last year)

06/2022 "Do parental job displacements lead to worse children‘s birth outcomes when there is more unemployment around?", University of Bamberg

10/2021 "Growing educational inequalities in subjective well‐being across the life course, ECSR conference (online)

06/2021 "Growing educational inequalities in subjective well‐being across the life course, RC28 conference, University of Turku (online)

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Professional services

Ad-hoc reviews

Advances in Life Course Research (*)
American Journal of Sociology (*)
BMC Public Health (**)
Education Economics
European Journal of Industrial Relations (*)
European Sociological Review (*)
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (*)
International Journal of Social Welfare
Journal of Marriage and Family  (*)
Journal of Youth Studies (*)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (*)
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (*) (**)
Social Forces (*)
Social Indicators Research (*)
Social Policy & Administration (*)
Social Science Research (*)
The European Journal of Health Economics (*)
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
Work and Occupations (*)
Work, Employment & Society (*)

(*) SSCI-listed, (**) SCIE-listed

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Professional services and workshops

07/2022 – Employee representative in the study commission (Studienkommission) of the School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim

11/2019 Organization of the ECSR network workshop “Labor market insecurity and health of family members”, University of Bamberg

02/2016 Organization of the 3.  EXCEPT workshop, University of Bamberg

09/2015 Reviewer of abstracts for the 2015 Annual BAGSS Conference, University of Bamberg

Academic memberships

Akademie für Soziologie, ECSR, ISA-RC28