Dr. Sandra Buchholz is Professor of Sociology. Her research focuses on the international comparison of education systems as well as employment and welfare regimes, their effects on social inequality structures and life courses as well as quantitative methods, especially longitudinal research methods and event history modelling. Her articles have been published in peer-reviewed national and international journals (such as European Sociological Review, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Berliner Journal für Soziologie, Sociologia del lavoro, Journal of Comparative Family Studies). Additionally, she has been the editor of several international comparative book volumes which analysed changes in social inequalities in Europe and in the United States of America.

Books

Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S. and Kurz, K. (eds.) (2011). Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S., Hofäcker, D. and Kolb, K. (eds.) (2011). Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S., Budoki, E. and Kurz, K. (eds.) (2008). Young Workers, Globalization and the Labor Market. Comparing Early Working Life in Eleven Countries. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Buchholz, S. (2008). Die Flexibilisierung des Erwerbsverlaufs. Eine Analyse von Einstiegs- und Ausstiegsprozessen in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. 

Articles and Book Chapters

Buchholz, S., Rinklake, A. and Blossfeld, H.-P. (). ‘Reversing Early Retirement in Germany – A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Recent Pension Reforms on the Timing of the Transition to Retirement and on Pension Incomes.’ Comparative Population Studies: accepted for publication in 2013.   

Buchholz, S., Imdorf, C., Hupka-Brunner, S. and Blossfeld, H.-P. (2012). ‘Sind leistungsschwache Jugendliche tatsächlich nicht ausbildungsfähig? Eine Analyse zur beruflichen Qualifizierung von Jugendlichen mit geringen kognitiven Kompetenzen im Nachbarland Schweiz.’ Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 64(4), pp. 701-727.

Skopek, N., Kolb, K., Buchholz, S. and Blossfeld, H.-P. (2012). ‘Einkommensreich – Vermögensarm? Die Zusammensetzung von Vermögen und die Bedeutung einzelner Vermögenskomponenten im europäischen Vergleich.’ Berliner Journal für Soziologie 22(2), pp. 163-187.

Buchholz, S. and Blossfeld, H.-P. (2012). ‘Changes in the economy, the labor market, and expectations for the future: What might Europe and the United States look like in twenty-five years?’ New Directions for Youth Development, Special Issue: Youth Success and Adaptation in Times of Globalization and Economic Change 135, pp. 17-25.

Buchholz, S., Hofäcker, D., Mills, M., Blossfeld, H.-P., Kurz, K. and Hofmeister, H. (2009). 'Life courses in the globalization process: the development of social inequalities in modern societies.' European Sociological Review 25(1), pp. 53-71.

Rinklake, A. and Buchholz, S. (2011). Increasing inequalities in Germany - Older people’s employment lives and income conditions since the mid-1980s. In: Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S. and Kurz, K. (eds.): Ageing Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.