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 Impact on Social Inequality in Modern Societies

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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Sociology, especially work and employment
Secretariat of the German Minimum Wage Commission c/o 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 in minimum wage and low wages jobs, minimum wage effects, occupational change, employment trajectories and occupational mobility, occupational burdens and strains, 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, 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 (2022): COVID‑19 and the labour market: What are the working conditions in critical jobs?, in: Journal for Labour Market Research 56(10): 1-17

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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