Susanne Edler
Dr. phil.
susanne.edler@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 7810
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7769-3704
AREAS OF INTEREST
Labor market, work organization, technological change, discontinuous employment relationships, social inequality, social policy, methods of empirical social research
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Departement für Sozialarbeit, Sozialpolitik und globale Entwicklung
Rte Bonnesfontaines 11
1700 Fribourg
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Departement für Sozialarbeit, Sozialpolitik und globale Entwicklung
Rte Bonnesfontaines 11
1700 Fribourg
Biografie
RESEARCH AND WORKING EXPERIENCES
07/2020 - present
Postdoc assistant at the Université de Fribourg
09/2016 - 06/2020
Postdoc position in the ERC-funded project “The Resurgence in Wage Inequality and Technological Change: A New Approach” at the University of Haifa
08/2015 - 01/2016
Mobility grant from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
04/2012 - 06/2015
Research Assistant at Research Project B4 “Companies and Inequality: The Synchronic and Diachronic Inequality Effects of Temporary Layoffs (Recalls)” in the Collaborative Research Center 882 (CRC882), Bielefeld University
10/2010 - 03/2012
Research Assistant at the Data Service Center for Business and Organizational Data (DSC-BO), Bielefeld University
03/2008 - 07/2010
Student assistant at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb)
EDUCATION
04/2012 - 01/2017
PhD at Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
10/2003 - 07/2010
Diploma in Sociology with focus on Methods of Empirical Social Research, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
SASE 2017 Early Career Workshop Award
Mobility grant from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (08/2015 – 01/2016)
Erasmus Student Grant, Université Francois Rabelais de Tours (09/2005 – 06/2006)
TEACHING
FA 2020-2024: Social stratification (Lecture), Empirical social research (Lecture), Université de Fribourg
SP 2024: Advanced Statistics: Multilevel Analysis using R (Lecture), Economy and Society (Lecture), Université de Fribourg
SP 2014: Work organization and career trajectories (Seminar), Bielefeld University
Forschung und Publikationen
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Publikationen
12 Publikationen
Educational trajectories within and beyond the core education phase in Switzerland: a sequence analysis based on SHP data 1999–2023
Andreas Hadjar, Susanne Edler, (2025) | ArtikelThe Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Perceived Employment (In)Security in Switzerland
Susanne Edler and Ivo Staub, Swiss Journal of Sociology (2023) | ArtikelComputers meet politics at wage structure: an analysis of the computer wage premium across rich countries
Tali Kristal and Susanne Edler, Socio-Economic Review (2021) | ArtikelRecalls – Flexibility at the Expense or to the Benefit of Employees: Effects of Temporary Layoffs on Employees in the German Labor Market
Susanne Edler (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2020), ISBN: 9783658296117 | BuchRecall – A way to mitigate adverse effects of unemployment on earnings across occupations?
Susanne Edler and Peter Jacobebbinghaus and Stefan Liebig, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2019) | ArtikelErwartungen und Erfahrungen von Beschäftigten in Deutschland
Susanne Edler, Andrea Hense, Stefan Liebig, Meike May, Julia Rüdel, Franziska Schork (DIW Data Documentation: 2018) | BuchkapitelEffects of unemployment on wages: differences between types of reemployment and types of occupation
Susanne Edler, Peter Jacobebbinghaus, Stefan Liebig, (2015) | Working Paper„Erwartungen und Erfahrungen von Beschäftigten in Deutschland“ Standardisierte Beschäftigtenbefragung des Teilprojekts B4 „Betriebe und Ungleichheit: Synchrone und diachrone Ungleichheitseffekte zeitweiser Entlassungen (Recalls)“
Liebig, Stefan and Edler, Susanne and Hense, Andrea and Schork, Franziska and May, Meike and Jacobebbinghaus, Peter, (2015) | Data SetChanging reward structures: (Temporary) layoffs and returns on human capital.
Susanne Edler, Andrea Hense, (2015) | Working PaperEmpirische Organisationsforschung in Deutschland – Datennutzung und -dokumentation. Eine Metaanalyse ausgewählter deutscher Journals.
Edler, Susanne and Hohlweg, Jelena Johanna Nadja and Meyermann, Alexia and Pruisken, Henrik, (2014) | Working Paper