Michael Gebel

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, ESPECIALLY METHODS OF EMPIRICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH

______________________________________________________________________

Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room: F21/01.16A, 96045 Bamberg, Germany
______________________________________________________________________

E-Mail: michael.gebel(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-2629
______________________________________________________________________

Pillar 2: Educational and Social Inequality Across the Entire Life Course
Pillar 3: Changes in Human Capital, Labour Markets and Demographic Structures and their Impact on Social Structures in Modern Societies
______________________________________________________________________

// CURRENT POSITIONS

Director of the Institute of Sociology
Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research
Faculty Member at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

........................................................................................................................................................

// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Michael Gebel is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of education, labor market and family sociology. Doctoral students supervised by Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel are required to conduct theory-driven empirical social research using advanced methods of causal inference, longitudinal data analysis and/or multi-level analysis of cross-country comparative micro-data.

........................................................................................................................................................

// RESEARCH

Professor Dr. Michael Gebel’s research focuses on the transition to adulthood (education-to-work transition, family formation, leaving parental home), non-standard employment, unemployment, international comparative social research, quantitative methods of longitudinal data analysis, and quantitative methods of causal inference. He has co-authored five internationally comparative books on Central and Eastern Europe and North Africa and the Middle East and published widely in leading SSCI-listed journals such as Advances in Life Course Studies, European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Social Forces, Social Science & Medicine, Social Indicators Research, Socio-Economic Review and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Socio-Economic Consequences of Temporary Employment: A Comparative Panel Data Analysis (SECCOPA), ERC-Starting Grant

........................................................................................................................................................

// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fauser, S. and M. Gebel (2023). Labour market dualism and the heterogeneous wage gap for temporary employment: A multilevel study across 30 countries. Socio-Economic Review DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwac072

Manzoni, A. and M. Gebel (2023). Young adults’ labour market transitions and intergenerational support in Germany. European Sociological Review DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcad006

Gebel M. and S. Gundert (2023). Changes in income poverty risks at the transition from unemployment to employment: Comparing the short-term and medium-term effects of fixed-term and permanent jobs. Social Indicators Research DOI: 10.1007/s11205-023-03118-5

........................................................................................................................................................

Professor Dr. Michael Gebel's website can be found here.

........................................................................................................................................................