Team Nadia Steiber
Specialization
- Social stratification and social inequality
- Education and social mobility
- Employment
- Family
- Ageing
- Well-being/health
- Quantitative methods
Research Projects
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FAMREG: Family outcomes of assortative mating: New insights based on couple-level survey/register data
01/2024-12/2026
Based on large-scale register data, linked with survey data, this project investigates from a life course perspective how gender inequality within couples unfolds over time. The data allow us to study the impact of where people live and work on which types of partners they choose. Subsequently, we study the implications of ‘modern relationships’ in which the woman is more educated and/or earns more than the man on family-related and work-related decisions. FAMREG is funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). It is carried out by an interdisciplinary team in cooperation of the Departments of Sociology and Demography of the University of Vienna, Umeå University in Sweden, and the Institute for Advanced Studies.
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HYPOFAM: The Rise of Hypogamy and its Consequences for Family Life
01/2022-07/2026
The HYPOFAM Project investigates, based on large-scale data from administrative records in Austria, how a societal trend towards greater shares of hypogamous heterosexual couples - in which she is more educated or earns more than him - affects couples and their behaviors. We study the impact of couple constellations in terms of her and his socio-economic status on couples’ fertility, gendered employment and income trajectories after the birth of a first child. HYPOFAM is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). It is carried out by an interdisciplinary team in cooperation of the Department of Sociology of the University of Vienna, the JKU in Linz and the Institute for Advanced Studies.
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AKCOVID: The COVID-19 health and labour market crisis and its impact on the population
04/2020-12/2022
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) and January 2021 (panel design) 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.
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Pathways to the future - A longitudinal study on the social integration of young people in Vienna
12/2016-12/2022
The research project “Paths to the Future” is a longitudinal study using a variety of methods. The study accompanies young people in Vienna on their way from a lower tier secondary school (NMS) to other educational paths, vocational education, labour market training and professional life. The survey focuses on different, interconnected stages during adolescence: educational system and vocational training, professional life and labour market training measures, family relationships and social networks as well as identity-forming processes and dynamics of youth culture. The project analyses life courses in relation to social origin, educational success and labour market opportunities, as well as the desired or dreaded future of young people in Vienna. The project takes a holistic approach and involves all research areas of the Department, such as migration, work, family, culture, city or social inequality.
Team
Team Leader
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.303
T: +43-1-4277-49290
nadia.steiber@univie.ac.at
Nadia is professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the Department (since 2020) and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). She is affiliated with the Wittgenstein Centre (for details, see CV). Her main areas of research are at the intersection of employment and family research and encompass research on the health implications of life course events.
Current projects: HYPOFAM, FAMREG, and AKCOVID.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.302
T: +43-1-4277-49298
lara.lebedinski@univie.ac.at
Lara is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department since 2022 and works in the HYPOFAM project. She holds a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy (2012). From 2012 to 2014 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and from 2017 to 2022 at the Institute of Economic Sciences, Serbia. Her research covers topics related to human capital, labour economics and family economics.
Administration
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.313
T: +43-1-4277-48242
bernd.liedl@univie.ac.at
Bernd is an administrative assistant at the Department and data manager at the Data Centre, he also works in the FWF project HYPOFAM. He obtained his MA in Sociology at the University of Vienna (2024) and holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy (2013). His research focuses on poverty, inequality in the labour market and migration.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.306
sandrine.metzger@univie.ac.at
Sandrine is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and has previously earned an MSc degree in Statistics and Applied Economics from the ENSAI Graduate School, France. Her doctoral research examines gender inequalities in mental health over the life course, focusing particularly on the consequences of parenthood transitions.
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.302
T: +43-1-4277-49295
mo.muehlboeck@univie.ac.at
Monika is an assistant professor (non-tenure track) at the Department since March 2021 and Senior Researcher at the IHS. Before joining the Department, she worked at the University of Mannheim (2020-2021). She holds a PhD in Political Science (2012) and a BSc in Mathematics (2013). She has been Visiting Professor at Central European University (CEU), Fellow at the University of Colorado, and Visiting Researcher at the University of Turku. Her research covers public policy, labor market, European integration, political representation, and quantitative methods.
Doctoral Candidate and Researcher
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.302
T: +43-1-4277-49292
christina.siegert@univie.ac.at
Christina is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Department. She obtained her MA in Sociology at the University of Vienna (2020) and previously held positions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2019) and Statistics Austria (2018). Her research interests lie at the intersection of poverty, employment and family research, with a strong focus on gender inequality.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Zimmer: R.306
T: +43-1-4277-49288
manuel.tomas.valdes.fernandez@univie.ac.at
Manuel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department since 2025 and works in the HYPOFAM project. He holds a PhD in Soziology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2021). From 2021 to 2024 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid. His research covers topics related to education, social mobility and social stratification.
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Zimmer: R.302
T: +43-1-4277-49291
lili.vargha@univie.ac.at
Lili is an assistant professor (non-tenure track) at the Department since August 2024. Before joining the Department, she worked as Research Fellow (2020-2023) and Junior Faculty (2023-2024) at the Humboldt University Berlin; she is also affiliated with the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute in Budapest. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Pécs in 2019, specialising in demography. Her research focuses on life course research, demography, family research and quantitative methods.
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.306
T: +43-1-4277-49294
stefan.vogtenhuber@univie.ac.at
Stefan is an assistant professor (non-tenure track) at the Department since 2021 and senior researcher in the Education and Employment Research Group at the IHS since 2004. Previously, he has been working at the Department of Economic Sociology at the University of Vienna (2016-2017). He holds a PhD in Sociology (2015). His research covers education, professional training and labour market analysing large national and international surveys and register data.
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Zimmer: R.306
T: +43-1-4277-49279
laura.samantha.zilian@univie.ac.at
Laura is an assistant professor (non-tenure track) at the Department since August 2023. Before joining the Department, she worked as a researcher at the University of Graz (2018-2023) and at WU Vienna (2020-2021). She received her PhD in Environmental Systems Science from the University of Graz in 2021. Her research focuses on labour market analysis, the impact of digital transformation, digital inequality and quantitative methods.
Research Fellows
University of Messina, IT
alessandra.trimarchi@unime.it
Doctoral Candidates
Institute for Advanced Studies
david.binder@ihs.ac.at
Website
Institute for Advanced Studies
maria.koepping@ihs.ac.at
Website