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  1. Beyond Beveridge and Bismarck: Revising the Typology of Pension Systems for the 21st Century

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, September 2026, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  2. Converging or unequal retirement patterns? Late working lives, retirement trajectories, and pension income in Germany over three decades of cohorts

    Article • Social Forces, December 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  3. Comparing welfare states and their reforms

    Article • August 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  4. Mobilization from below facing welfare state reforms

    Article • August 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  5. Welfare state reform in the age of polycrisis: an introduction

    Article • August 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  6. Handbook on Welfare State Reform

    Article • August 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  7. Vom Mitgliederschwund zur Stabilisierung deutscher Gewerkschaften im neuen Millennium?

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  8. How organized interests shape labour relations and social policies

    Article • May 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  9. The political economy of pension policy

    Article • May 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  10. From early retirement to later exit from work: shifting towards active ageing

    Article • October 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  11. Pension governance in a globalizing world

    Article • July 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  12. Die Entzweiung der Siamesischen Zwillinge: Politische Entfremdung und Mitgliederschwund deutscher Gewerkschaften

    Article • January 2023, Nomos Verlag

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  13. Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science

    Article • Scientific Data, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  14. Studying the politics of pension reforms and their social consequences

    Article • July 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  15. Welfare state support during theCOVID‐19 pandemic: Change and continuity in public attitudes towards social policies in Germany

    Article • European Policy Analysis, June 2022, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  16. Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes

    Article • Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  17. Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

    Article • Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  18. Unions and Employers

    Article • December 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  19. Introduction

    Article • June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  20. The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe's Great Recession

    Article • June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  21. Postscript

    Article • June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  22. Social concertation at a crossroad

    Article • June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  23. When governments include social partners in crisis corporatism

    Article • June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  24. Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, January 2021, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  25. Accumulation or absorption? Changing disparities of household non-employment in Europe during the Great Recession

    Article • Socio-Economic Review, February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  26. Accumulation or absorption? Changing disparities of household non-employment in Europe during the Great Recession

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  27. The Legitimacy of Public Pensions in an Ageing Europe: Changes in Subjective Evaluations and Policy Preferences, 2008–2016

    Article • January 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  28. Changing work and welfare: unemployment and labour market policies

    Article • January 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  29. Poverty in old age

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  30. Social concertation in Europe during the Great Recession: A fsQCA-study of social partner involvement

    Article • July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  31. Multipillarisation remodelled: the role of interest organizations in British and German pension reforms

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  32. Machtressourcentheorie und Korporatismusansatz

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  33. Institutionalismus, historischer

    Article • January 2018, Nomos Verlag

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  34. Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  35. Privatisierung und Vermarktlichung der Altersvorsorge: Eingetrübte Aussichten des deutschen Mehrsäulenmodells

    Article • WSI-Mitteilungen, January 2018, Nomos Verlag

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  36. Class, Union, or Party Allegiance? Comparing Pension Reform Preferences in Britain and Germany

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  37. Introduction: Analysing Organized Interests and Public Opinion Towards Welfare Reforms

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Professor Per Lægreid

  38. Conclusion: The Influence from Below—How Organized Interests and Public Attitudes Shape Welfare State Reforms in Europe

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  39. The Popularity of Pension and Unemployment Policies Revisited: The Erosion of Public Support in Britain and Germany

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  40. Making Deservingness of the Unemployed Conditional: Changes in Public Support for the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits

    Article • September 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  41. The New Pension Mix in Europe

    Article • May 2017, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  42. Pushed out prematurely? Comparing objectively forced exits and subjective assessments of involuntary retirement across Europe

    Article • Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, September 2015, Elsevier

    Jonas Radl, Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  43. Demografische Alterung und Reformen der Alterssicherung in Europa – Probleme der ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Nachhaltigkeit

    Article • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  44. Karl Hinrichs and Matteo Jessoula (eds.) (2012), Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £63.00, pp. 280, hbk.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  45. Familien am Rande der Erwerbsgesellschaft

    Article • January 2015, Nomos Verlag

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  46. Machtressourcentheorie und Korporatismusansatz

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  47. The Privatization and Marketization of Pensions in Europe: A Double Transformation Facing the Crisis

    Article • European Policy Analysis, January 2015, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  48. Welfare Retrenchment

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  49. Methode

    Article • Soziologische Revue, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  50. Mitgliederrückgang und Organisationsstrategien deutscher Gewerkschaften

    Article • November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  51. Editorial: Der Umbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Krisenzeiten: Institutioneller Wandel in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich

    Article • Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, September 2013, De Gruyter

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  52. Institutional Change in Advanced Democracies

    Article • June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  53. Global Social Policy Digest

    Article • Global Social Policy, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  54. Governing pension fund capitalism in times of uncertainty

    Article • Global Social Policy, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  55. Shifting responsibilities in Western European pension systems: What future for social models?

    Article • Global Social Policy, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  56. Europe’s Transformations Towards a Renewed Pension System

    Article • October 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  57. James W. Russell (2011), Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States, 2nd edn. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. £16.95, pp. 195, pbk.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, December 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  58. The role of trade unions in European pension reforms: From ‘old’ to ‘new’ politics?

    Article • European Journal of Industrial Relations, August 2011, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  59. Introduction: Causes, consequences and cures of union decline

    Article • European Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2011, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  60. Social capital, ‘Ghent’ and workplace contexts matter: Comparing union membership in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2011, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  61. The Varieties of Pension Governance

    Article • March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  62. Germany: Departing from Bismarckian Public Pensions

    Article • March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tobias Wiß, Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  63. Introduction: Studying Pension Privatization in Europe

    Article • March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  64. The Changing Public–Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure

    Article • March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  65. The Governance and Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe

    Article • March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  66. The Public–Private Pension Mix and Old Age Income Inequality in Europe

    Article • March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  67. Taming pension fund capitalism in Europe: collective and state regulation in times of crisis

    Article • Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Tobias Wiß, Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  68. Unions and Employers

    Article • July 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  69. Kontingenz und historisch-vergleichende Makrosoziologie: Von der Großtheorie zur historischen Fallstudie. Anmerkungen zu Wolfgang Knöbl: „Die Kontingenz der Moderne“

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  70. Business and Employers’ Associations

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  71. Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems ‐ Edited by Bruno Palier and Claude Martin

    Article • International Journal of Social Welfare, June 2009, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  72. The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States

    Article • January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  73. Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  74. Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in Society

    Article • September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  75. Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA

    Article • July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  76. The Politics of Pension Reform: Managing Interest Group Conflicts

    Article • July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  77. Book Reviews

    Article • Swiss Political Science Review, September 2005, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  78. When Less is More

    Article • International Sociology, June 2005, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  79. European Rigidity Versus American Flexibility? The Institutional Adaptability of Collective Bargaining

    Article • Work and Occupations, May 2005, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  80. Book Reviews

    Article • West European Politics, May 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  81. Comparing Welfare Capitalism

    Article • January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  82. Die Mitgliederentwicklung deutscher Gewerkschaften im historischen und internationalen Vergleich

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  83. Bookshelf 2002

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, December 2002, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  84. Trade unions’ changing role: membership erosion, organisational reform, and social partnership in Europe

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, December 2002, Wiley

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  85. Welfare and Employment in a United Europe

    Article • Political Science Quarterly, January 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  86. Guillén, Mauro F.: The limits of convergence. Globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain

    Article • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, December 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  87. Any Way out of ‘Exit from Work’? Reversing the Entrenched Pathways of Early Retirement

    Article • September 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  88. Jens Alber und Martin Schölkopf: Seniorenpolitk. Die soziale Lage älterer Menschen in Deutschland und Europa

    Article • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  89. Striking deals: concertation in the reform of continental European welfare states

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  90. Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  91. A Comparative Profile

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  92. Switzerland

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  93. United Kingdom / Great Britain

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  94. A Guide to the Handbook

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  95. Austria

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  96. Belgium

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  97. Denmark

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  98. Finland

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  99. Germany

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  100. When Institutions Matter:Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-1995

    Article • European Sociological Review, June 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  101. The role of tripartite concertation in the reform of the welfare state

    Article • Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, March 1999, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  102. Europe Through the Looking-Glass: Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives

    Article • Acta Sociologica, December 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  103. Europe Through the Looking-Glass: Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives

    Article • Acta Sociologica, October 1998, SAGE Publications

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  104. Der Wandel der Arbeitsbeziehungen im westeuropäischen Vergleich

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  105. The Siamese Twins: Citizenship Rights, Cleavage Formation, and Party-Union Relations in Western Europe

    Article • International Review of Social History, December 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  106. Barrieren und Wege „grenzenloser“ Solidarität: Gewerkschaften und Europäische Integration

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  107. Germany

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  108. Can Path Dependence Explain Institutional Change? Two Approaches Applied to Welfare State Reform

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  109. Mehr oder weniger? Quantitativer versus qualitativer Vergleich

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  110. Reforming Welfare States and Changing Capitalism

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus

  111. Vergleichende Politische Soziologie: Quantitative Analyse- oder qualitative Fallstudiendesigns?

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus