Matthias Dütsch

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, ESPECIALLY WORK AND EMPLOYMENT

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Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room: F21/01.25, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: matthias.duetsch(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-2559
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Pillar 3: Changes in Human Capital, Labour Markets and Demographic Structures and their Relation to Social Inequalities in Modern Societies

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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Sociology, especially work and employment
Head of Unit 1.7 Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Systems in Transformation; Coordination Occupational Safety and Health Structures at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Faculty Member of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Matthias Dütsch is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students who conduct empirical studies on social inequalities in labour markets, occupational change, career mobility, labour market policy, structures and changes in the life course, organizational justice, or working conditions and health inequalities.

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// RESEARCH

His research focuses on social inequalities in the labour market, working conditions, the effectiveness of occupational safety measures and structures, occupational stress and strain, occupational change, employment trajectories and occupational mobility, and on social justice.

Research Projects:

Labor market institutions, occupations, and employment careers
Working conditions and health: minimum wage effects on the state of health of low-wage workers

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dütsch, Matthias, Clemens Ohlert, Baumann, Arne (2025): The Minimum Wage in Germany: Institutional Setting and a Systematic Review of Key Findings, in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 245(1-2): 113-151

Dütsch, Matthias, Monika Senghaas, Gesine Stephan, Olaf Struck (2025): Does organizational context matter? An examination of the factors influencing employees' judgments of minimum wage increases. In: Journal for Labour Market Research, 59: 1-15.

Dütsch, Matthias, Orkun Altun, Luisa Grundmann, Ralf Himmelreicher (2023): What Does the German Minimum Wage Do? The Impact of the Introduction of the Statutory Minimum Wage on the Composition of Low- and Minimum-Wage Labour, in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 243(3-4): 355-396

Dütsch, Matthias, Franziska Ganesch, Olaf Struck (2019): Employment trajectories in heterogeneous regions: Evidence from Germany, in: Advances in Life Course Research, 40: 43-84

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Professor Dütsch's website at the Professorship of Sociology esp. Labour Research

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