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Phone: +49 30 25491-373
Email: jalber@wzb.eu

Director of the Research Unit "Inequality and Social Integration"

My research has always aimed at building bridges between three frequently differentiated fields: Macro-theories of social development, quantitative empirical research, and public policy debates. While the focus in my earlier positions used to be on welfare state comparisons, the current focus in Berlin is on institution-sensitive analyses of social structure combining quantitative data from surveys with qualitative data on institutional change in public programmes in a comparative perspective. Up to 2008 the emphasis was on comparisons of quality in life in the enlarged European Union, now the emphasis is on comparisons of the European Social Model and the United States and on the elaboration of transatlantic similarities and differences.

2010

"What the European and American welfare states have in common and where they differ - Facts and fiction in comparison of the European Social Model and the United States", Journal of European Social Policy (forthcoming).
 

2009

United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 450 pages (ed. with Neil Gilbert)
 

2009

Family and the Welfare State in Europe – Intergenerational Relations in Ageing Societies, Cheltenham/Northampton, ÚK, USA: Edward Elgar 2009, 341 pages (with Agnes Blome and Wolfgang Keck).

German edition: Generationenbeziehungen im Wohlfahrtstaat . Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften,  419 pages (with Agnes Blome and Wolfgang Keck)
 

2008

Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union (ed. with Tony Fahey and Chiara Saraceno), London/New York: Routledge, 430 pages.
 

2008

"Ten Questions About Turkey's EU Membership", Critique & Humanism 27 (2): 21-29.
 

2007

"Die Ungleichheit der Wahlbeteiligung in Europa und den USA und die politische Integrationskraft des Sozialstaats", Leviathan 35 (4): 510-539 (with Ulrich Kohler).
 

2007

"Where Turkey stands in Europe and why should it be admitted to the EU", pp. 249-278 in: Dimitris Tsarouhas, Ebru Ertugal, Ayse Idil Aybars (eds) Bridging the Real Divide. Social and Regional Policy in Turkey's EU Accession Process, Ankara: Middle East Technical University Press.
 

2006

"The European Social Model and the United States", European Union Politics 7 (3):  393-419.
 

2006

"Das 'europäische Sozialmodell' und die USA", Leviathan 34 (2): 208-241.
 

2006

Europas Osterweiterung: Das Ende der Vertiefung? WZB-Jahrbuch 2005, Berlin: edition sigma (ed. with Wolfgang Merkel).
 

2005

"Wer ist das schwache Geschlecht? Zur Sterblichkeit von Männern und Frauen innerhalb und außerhalb der Ehe", Leviathan 33 (1): 3-39.
 

2004

"Gehört die Türkei zu Europa? Ein Sozialporträt der Türkei im Licht vergleichender Daten der Umfrageforschung", Leviathan 32  (4): 464-494.
 

2004

Perceptions of living conditions in an enlarged Europe, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin 2004, 59 pages (with Tony Fahey).
 

2004

Health and care in an enlarged Europe, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin 2004, 84 pages (with Ulrich Kohler).
 

2003

"Recent Developments of the German Welfare State: Basic Continuity or Paradigm Shift?", pp. 9-73 in Neil Gilbert und Rebecca A. Van Voorhis (eds) Changing Patterns of Social Protection, New Brunswick: Transaction.

2002

"Modernisierung als Peripetie des Sozialstaats?", Berliner Journal für Soziologie 12 (1): 5-35.
 

2001

"Hat sich der Wohlfahrtsstaat als soziale Ordnung bewährt?", pp. 59-111 in Karl Ulrich Mayer (ed.) Die beste aller Welten? Marktliberalismus versus Wohlfahrtsstaat, Frankfurt/Main: Campus.
 

2001

Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialstaat. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Sozialreform. Wiesbaden: Chmielorz, 188 pages (ed. with Jürgen Kohl).
 

 2000

Europe in a comparative global context. Special Issue of Journal of European Social Policy (ed. with Guy Standing), Special Issue of Journal of European Social Policy, 117 pages.