Prof. Dr. Jens Alber

10 2002  - 09 2011   
Professor at the Free University Berlin and Director of the Research Unit "Inequality and social Integration" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin
     
1991 - 2002    
Chair for Social Policy, University of Konstanz, Department of Politics and Management

1986 - 91    
Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
     
1986    
Habilitation in sociology, University of Mannheim
     
1983 - 86    
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Sociology, University of Cologne
     
1980 - 83    
Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence (Research Project "The Development of the Western European Welfare State Since the Second World War")
     
1979    
Dr. phil., University of Mannheim (Sociology, Political Science)
     
1977 - 80    
Assistant at the Research Institute for Sociology, University of Cologne, and researcher in the HIWED II-Project
     
1973 - 77    
Research Position in the HIWED-Project (Historical Indicators of Western European Democracies)
     
1972 - 73    
Research and teaching assistant at the chair for Sociology III, University of Mannheim
     
1972    
Magister Artium, University of Konstanz (Sociology, Political Science, Psychology)

• Alber, Jens (2010): "What the European and American Welfare States Have in Common and Where They Differ. Facts and Fiction in Comparisons of the European Social Model and the United States". In: Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2, S. 102-125.
• Alber, Jens/Gilbert, Neil (Eds.) (2010): United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America. International Policy Exchange Series, Vol. 1. Oxford/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, XIV, 450 S.
• Alber, Jens/Fahey, Tony/Sacareno, Chiara (Eds.) (2008): Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union. London/New York, NY: Routledge, XVI, 430 S.
• Alber, Jens/Kohler, Ulrich (2007): "Die Ungleichheit der Wahlbeteiligung in Europa und den USA und die politische Integrationskraft des Sozialstaats". In: Leviathan, Jg. 35, H. 4, S. 510-539.