Prof. Markus Gangl has been awarded a research grant by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved under the priority program “The German Labor Market in a Globalized World” (SPP 1764). His project “Organizational Structure, Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: an Empirical Study Using Linked Employer-Employee Data” addresses the role of firms for wage inequality in the German labor market and aims to understand the contribution of relevant changes in firms’ behavior and organization to the rise of wage inequality in Germany since the 1990s.
Markus Gangl is Professor of Sociology, area social stratification and social policy, at the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University and principal investigator at SAFE. He is doing research on the analysis of careers, unemployment and poverty dynamics, on the relationship between public policies, social stratification and income distribution, on the methodology of causal inference in the social sciences and on statistical methods for the analysis of social science data more generally.
