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February 6, 2025: DIFIS Workshop: "Life course consequences of the professional provision of care work", Bremen.

Remuneration in the care sector: a look at employment histories and the connection with the shortage of skilled workers (in German).

Martin Kroczek [IAW]

December 5, 2024: Networking meeting of the research program on nursing education and the nursing profession of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)

Transitions from nursing assistant to specialist training from a theoretical and empirical perspective (in German).

Marcel Reiner [IAW] together with Dr. Jochen Späth [IAW] and Jan Braun [Esslingen University]

September 16, 2024: Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik 2024, Berlin.

The reaction of wages to skill shortage in nursing.

Martin Kroczek [IAW]

June 19, 2024: International Pension Workshop in Leiden (NL)

Pension reform effects in light of the changing task composition.

Dr. Natalie Herdegen [IAW] together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann [IAW] and Martin Kroczek [IAW]

June 19. 2024: Advisory Board "Senior Living and Care" of the University City of Tübingen

How is the current labor market situation affecting the provision of long-term care (in German)?

Dr. Andreas Koch [IAW]

Publications

Natalie Herdegen, Philipp Kugler, Jana Thole, Alexa Weikinger

Einstellungen zum Wohlfahrtsstaat: Was ist aus nationalen und internationalen Surveys bekannt? – Ein Data-Review.

In: DIFIS-Studie 2026, Nr. 9. ISSN: 2748-7199

Martin Kroczek, Julia Petersen, Marcel Reiner, Ulrike Rösler, Jochen Späth

Drivers of attractiveness and decent work in self-organizing nursing teams: a vignette study in home care.

In: Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 40 No. 9 pp. 325–344, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-04-2025-0178, April 2026.

Christin Schafstädt, Andrea Kirchmann

Empowerment in poverty-related life situations (in German).
In: Ortrud Leßmann/Kai Marquardsen (ed.). Armut erforschen. Akteursperspektive, strukturelle Bedingungen und politische Implikationen. Volume 1: Interdisziplinäre Armutsforschung. Nomos Verlag. Baden-Baden, 2025, pp. 227-238.

Bernhard Boockmann, Natalie Herdegen, Martin Kroczek

Pension Reform Effects in Times of Technological Change and Shifting Task Composition.

In: Journal of Economics and Statistics, April 18, 2025.

Marcel Reiner, Celine Keppner, Kathrin Mittelstät, Eva Hocher, Jochen Späth

Transitions into higher education and its utilization in practice - success factors, challenges, scope for action (in German).
In: Pflege & Gesellschaft (ISSN 1430-9653), issue 1, year 2025, page 37 - 50.