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Karin Schönpflug is an economist and a Senior Researcher in the research group Social Cohesion and Polarisation. Before joining IHS in 2008, she was a researcher at the Austrian Ministry of Finance; and she taught macroeconomics at the University of Portland Maine and at Otago University in New Zealand. Currently she teaches at the FH-Campus Vienna and the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt.
Karin’s research is concentrated on the socio-economic inclusion and exclusion of queer and marginalized people, most recently including the intersectional aspect of ageing, building on her expertise in the sustainability of public finances with population ageing. She is interested in statistical practices in population accounting as well as the construction of consumer price indices, both connected to legal inclusion, social cohesion and creation of inequality. She has worked on the social costs of violence and discrimination for women, children and LGBTIQ+ populations.
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Feminist economics and queer aging: exploring caring labor through LGBTQI narratives in older ages. (2026) IJAL - International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.5625
Queere und intersektionale Perspektiven zum Gender Pay Gap. (2023)
In Fattmann, Wolf, Johanna and Wiede (eds), Gender Pay Gap. Vom Wert und Unwert von Arbeit in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Reihe Politik- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte, 113, Dietz
Queer Utopia for a Feminist Economics. Gender and Sexuality. (2021)
Journal of the Center for Gender Studies, ICU, 16, 1-30
If Queers were Counted: An Inquiry into European Socioeconomic Data on LGB(TI)QS. (2018)
with Christine M. Klapeer, Roswitha Hofmann and Sandra Müllbacher
Feminist Economics, 24, 1-30
Feminism, Economics and Utopia. Time Travelling through Paradigms. (2008) Routledge.