IHS - People
People at IHS in alphabetical order:
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nadia Steiber
- Education and Employment
Senior Fellow+43 1 59991 194
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intergenerational social mobility, life course, well-being and health, quality of work, work motivation, labour supply, youth unemployment, gender division of work, motherhood penalty, work-life balance, retirement decisions, ageing societies.
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Nadia is Professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Sociology of the University of Vienna and since October 2020 Fellow at the IHS. From 2018-2020 she worked as a Senior Researcher at the IHS. Nadia holds a doctoral degree from Nuffield College, Oxford University (sociology, DPhil, 2007). From 2013 to 2017, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Sociology of the University of Vienna. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy (Max Weber Programme & Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship).
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Current projects at the IHS
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing labour market crisis for the Austrian population
Within this project original survey data has been collected in June 2020 (N=2,000 persons aged 20-64) with the aim to study the implications of the pandemic on the livelihood of families, on family relations, working conditions, mental well-being, and the perception of the contagion risk at the work place in different sections of the workforce. Research project funded by the Vienna Chamber of Labour, the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, and the Institute for Advanced Studies (PI: Nadia Steiber). LINK
- Huffington Post: "Study Reveals Good News And Bad News For People Over 50", Sep 2015
- Kleine Zeitung: "Gut gebildete Mütter kehren rascher auf Arbeitsmarkt zurück", April 2016
- Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Was die Hände verraten", Oct 2016
- Der Standard: "Der Arbeitsmarkt verzeiht keine Fehler", Feb 2017
- Wiener Zeitung: "Jung und Arbeitslos", Dec 2017
- Science Daily: "The Long Arm of Childhood Conditions", Oct 2019
- Der Standard: "Jede fünfte Familie muss auf Erspartes zurückgreifen", March 2021
- Wiener Zeitung: "Der Händedruck und die Sterblichkeit", July 2022
- Der Standard: "Schwacher Händedruck weist auf Krankheiten hin", July 2022
- Science Daily: "Weak handgrip strength may signal serious health issues" , July 2022