The many faces of GESIS
Vita
- Since October 2022 Researcher, Department Data and Research on Society, Team Social Surveys, responsible for the linking of survey data and digital behavioral data
- April 2021 – September 2022 Research assistant, University of Konstanz, Sociology, Chair of Microsociology (Prof. Dr. Claudia Diehl) and Chair of Empirical Social Research (Prof. Dr. Thomas Hinz)
- Since June 2015 Doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 2015-2021 Research assistant, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Sociology, Media and Culture Studies
- 2016 Visiting Doctoral Student at the Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- 2012-2015 M.A. Sociology, University of Mannheim
- 2009-2012 B.A. Sociology, University of Mannheim
Research
Research interests- Income inequality and poverty in modern societies
- Low-wage employment, working poverty, and minimum wages
- Minimum income protection, social security, social policy
Publications
Journal article
Gábos, András, Barbara Binder, Réka Branyiczki, and István G. Tóth. 2024. "Unravelling the relationship between employment, social transfers and income poverty: policy and measurement." Journal of European Social Policy online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272.
Binder, Barbara, and Andreas Haupt. 2022. "The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 80 (August 2022): 100712. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100712.
Binder, Barbara, and Andreas Haupt. 2018. "Wohlstand für alle? Die Entwicklung einkommensschwacher Haushalte seit 2005." WSI-Mitteilungen 71 (5): 358-369.
Chapter in an edited book
Gábos, András, Barbara Binder, Réka Branyiczki, and István G. Tóth. 2019. "Employment and poverty dynamics before, during, and after the crisis." In Decent Incomes for All: Improving Policies in Europe, edited by Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills, International Policy Exchange Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lange, Barbara, Andreas Haupt, Gerd Nollmann, and Hermann Strasser. 2016. "Warum mehr Armut in Deutschland?" In Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits, edited by Machin Amanda, and Nico Stehr, zu|schriften der Zeppelin Universität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Gábos, András, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth, and Barbara Lange. 2014. "Az aktív korúak foglalkoztatottsága és szegénysége az Európai Unióban és Magyarországon: válság elött, alatt és után.." In Társaldami Riport 2014, edited by Tamás Kolosi, and István G. Tóth, Budapest: Tárki.
Monograph
Binder, Barbara. 2024. Minimum wages and income inequality: The impact of minimum wages on income inequality in the USA since 1989. Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000176161.
Working and discussion paper
Binder, Barbara, Alexander Mack, and Valentina Ponomarenko. 2020. Harmonization of income data in EU-SILC. Update of GESIS Paper 2015|18. Köln: GESIS.
Gábos, András, Barbara Lange, Réka Branyiczki, and István G. Tóth. 2015. Employment and poverty dynamics in the EU countries before, during and after the crisis. ImPRovE Working Paper 15/06. Antwerpen: Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy - University of Antwerp.
Data/Software
Lange, Barbara, and Donika Limani. 2016. Database building for IPOLIS (Integrated Poverty and Living Conditions Indicator Systems). http://ipolis.tarki.hu.
Mack, Alexander, and Barbara Lange. 2015. Adding information on at-risk-of-poverty thresholds to longitudinal EU-SILC data. https://www.gesis.org/en/missy/materials/EU-SILC/tools/datahandling.
Mack, Alexander, and Barbara Lange. 2015. Harmonization of income data in EU-SILC. https://www.gesis.org/en/missy/materials/EU-SILC/tools/datahandling.
Other article
Binder, Barbara. 2018. "Armut in der Region." In Baden TV aktuell (live news broadcast at a local TV station), 18.10.2018.
Presentation at a conference
Binder, Barbara, and Julia Weiß. 2024. "Bridging the Gap: Integrating Google Trends Data with Survey Data to Enhance Public Opinion Monitoring." WAPOR 2024 Annual Conference , Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 2024-07-29.
Binder, Barbara, András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, and István G. Tóth. 2023. "Rising employment and stagnant poverty rates in the EU - a puzzle revisited." Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion “Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse”, 2023-03-22.
Binder, Barbara. 2021. "Do minimum wages reduce income inequality? Estimating the impact of minimum wages on income inequality using unconditional quantile regressions in Germany and the USA." ECSR Annual Conference 2021, 2021-11-07.
Binder, Barbara. 2021. "Do minimum wages reduce income inequality? Estimating the impact of policies on income inequality using unconditional quantile regressions." ESPAnet Conference 2021, KU Leuven, Leuven, 2021-08-31.
Binder, Barbara. 2021. "Senkt der gesetzliche Mindestlohn die Einkommensungleichheit und -armut in Deutschland?" 3. Workshop der Geschäfts- und Informationsstelle für den Mindestlohn, Geschäfts- und Informationsstelle für den Mindestlohn, Berlin, 2021-11-15.
Binder, Barbara. 2021. "Senkt der gesetzliche Mindestlohn die Einkommensungleichheit und –armut in Deutschland?" Erwerbsverläufe, Sozialpolitik und Ungleichheit. Joint conference of the sections „Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse“ and „Sozialpolitik“, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin.
Binder, Barbara, András Gábos, István G. Tóth, and Réka Branyiczki. 2021. "The impact of changes in employment and social transfers on poverty trends in the European Union in times of economic recovery." 7th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim.
Binder, Barbara, and Andreas Haupt. 2021. "The moderating role of taxation on the relationship between workfarism and income inequality." ESPAnet Conference 2021, KU Leuven, Leuven, 2021-08-31.
Binder, Barbara. 2019. "Do minimum wages reduce income inequality in the USA?" ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2019, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 2019-03-21.
Binder, Barbara, and Andreas Haupt. 2018. "Keeping pace or lose the race? Low-income households and income inequality in the USA and Germany, 1992-2014." ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2018, Yonsei University, Seoul, 2018-05-25.
Binder, Barbara, and Andreas Haupt. 2018. "Keeping pace or lose the race? Low-income households and income inequality in the USA and Germany, 1992-2014." Erster Kongress der Akademie für Soziologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, 2018-04-04.
Binder, Barbara, and Andreas Haupt. 2018. "The USA has reduced income inequality in the lower half more successfully than Germany since the early 1990s. Why?" ECSR 2018 Conference: Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Europe, Sciences Po, Paris, 2018-10-29.
Binder, Barbara. 2017. "Die Entwicklung der Armutsquote in Deutschland und den USA im Vergleich [Poverty trends in Germany and the USA in comparison]." Herbsttagung der Sektion Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse der DGS: Inequality Reloaded, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, 2017-09-28.
Binder, Barbara. 2017. "Komprimiert der gesetzliche Mindestlohn die Verteilung der Einkommen?" Workshop Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns der Geschäfts- und Informationsstelle für den Mindestlohn, Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA), Berlin, 2017-09-12.
Lange, Barbara. 2017. "The link between minimum wages and poverty in the USA." RC28 Summer Meeting 2017, Columbia University, New York City, 2017-08-08.
Lange, Barbara. 2016. "Why has poverty in Germany increased since the 1990s? ECSR 2016 Conference: Stratification and Population Processes in European Societies." ECSR 2016 Conference, Stratification and Population Processes in European Societies, Oxford University, Oxford, 2016-09-22.
Lange, Barbara. 2016. "Why has poverty in Germany increased since the 1990s?" ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Economic Inequalities, Deprivation, and Poverty, Universität Bern, Bern, 2016-08-29.
Lange, Barbara. 2015. "Führt mehr Beschäftigung zu weniger Armut in der EU? [Does more employment result in less poverty in the EU?]." Jahrestagung der DGS-Sektion „Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse“: Sozialstruktur und soziale Ungleichheit, Universität Bremen, Bremen, 2015-10-05.
Lange, Barbara. 2015. "Welfare politics and poverty in Germany." BIGSSS International Conference 2015 From Poverty to Parties & Institutions to Inequality: Linking Structural Inequalities to Social Policy-Making, Universität Bremen, Bremen, 2015-09-24.
Presentation not at a conference
Binder, Barbara. 2017. "Der Zusammenhang von Mindestlöhnen und Armut in den USA [The link between minimum wages and poverty in the USA]." Forschungskolloquium der Lehrstuhlbereiche Prof. Auspurg und Prof. Brüderl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, 2017-01-18.
Lange, Barbara. 2016. "The link between minimum wages and income inequality." Stanford Inequality Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, 2016-04-22.
Lange, Barbara. 2015. "Social policy and low-income households in Hungary. An application of unconditional quantile regression on the TÁRKI Household Monitor Survey." Tárki Workshop, Tárki Social Research Institute, Budapest, 2015-11-19.
Lange, Barbara. 2015. "Welfare politics and poverty in Germany: Explaining changes in poverty rates." Summer School on Advanced poverty research: Poverty and material deprivation dynamics, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg, 2015-07-06.
Articles or interviews in non-scientific media
Binder, Barbara, Kira Schacht, and Olaya Argüeso. 2019. "Germany’s minimum wage is barely above the poverty line." Deutsche Welle. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-minimum-wage-is-barely-above-the-poverty-line/a-46797781.