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Conference contributions 2025

ESPAnet annual conference, Milan 27 – 29 August 2025
 

Adapting entitlement principles of social citizenship. A case study on social policies to reduce care-based differences in social rights.
 

Stream: The politics and policies shaping access to social rights: Rethinking social citizenship amidst global challenges, Stream
Convenors: Ivana Dobrotic and Sonja Blum.
 

Patricia Frericks, Johanna Barthel, Julia Höppner,
 

FIS annual forum, Leipzig 03 – 04 November 2025
 

Lebenslagen- und lebensphasen-bezogene Ungleichheiten. Eine Analyse des (mis)matches von gegenwärtigen Rentennormen und Lebensverläufen nach dem Übergang in Elternschaft (in German)
 

Patricia Frericks, Johanna Barthel, Julia Höppner
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Publications

  • Green, L. N., & Herbst-Debby, A. (2025). Motherhood as a prism shaping financial literacy for retirement among Generation Y women. Social Sciences, 14(5), 283.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2023). Family in societal redistribution: A theoretical inquiry. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(13/14), 212-228.
     

  • Herbst-Debby, A. (2023). What's your pension story? Women's perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic on their old-age pension status, past and present. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 1-20.
     

  • Herbst-Debby, A., & Achouche, N. (2023). Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts. Women's Studies International Forum, 100, 102814.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2022). Family care work coverage in pensions: Mapping and contextualizing international variations and developments. Social Politics, 29(4), 1360-1378.
     

  • Herbst-Debby, A. (2022). (De)Legitimization of single mothers' welfare rights: United States, Britain and Israel. Journal of European Social Policy, 32(3), 302-316.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2021). How to quantify qualitative characteristics of societal differences: A method for systematic comparison of qualitative data (SCQual). International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(3), 311-322.
     

  • Herbst-Debby, A., Endeweld, M., & Kaplan, A. (2021). Differentiated routes to vulnerability: Marital status, children, gender and poverty. Advances in Life Course Research, 49, 100418.
     

  • Frericks, P., & Höppner, J. (2019a). Does the marketisation of pensions lead to individualisation? An examination of family-related pension entitlements. Policy and Politics, 47(4), 579-597.
     

  • Frericks, P., & Höppner, J. (2019b). Self-responsibility readdressed: Shifts in financial responsibility for social security between the public, the individual and the family in Europe. American Behavioral Scientist, 63(1), 65-84.
     

  • Herbst-Debby, A. (2019). The economically responsible single mom who sees to her future: Welfare-to-work programs and pension savings. Journal of Social Policy, 48(3), 489-510.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2015). Social inequality and leading principles in welfare states: The impact of institutional marketisation, fragmentation and equalisation on the social structure. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2014). Unifying self-responsibility and solidarity in social security institutions: The circular logic of welfare-state reforms in Europe. European Societies, 16(4), 522-542.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2013). Strengthening market principles in welfare institutions: How hybrid pension systems impact on social-risk spreading. Journal of Social Policy, 42(4), 665-683.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2012). Gender-equalising and gender-neutral policies and their pitfalls: A typology of the gender dimensions of social policies. European Journal of Social Security, 14(1), 2-20.
     

  • Frericks, P. (2011). Marketising social protection in Europe: Two distinct paths and their impact on social inequalities. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 31(5/6), 319-334.
     

  • Frericks, P., Knijn, T., & Maier, R. (2009). Pension reforms, working patterns and gender pension gaps in Europe. Gender, Work and Organization, 16(6), 710-730.
     

  • Frericks, P., Maier, R., & De Graaf, W. (2009). Towards a neo-liberal Europe? Pension reforms and transformed citizenship. Administration and Society, 41(2), 135-157.
     

  • Frericks, P., Maier, R., & De Graaf, W. (2008). Male norms and female adjustments: The influence of care credits on gender pension gaps in France and Germany. European Societies, 10(1), 97-119.

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