Markus Gangl

Markus Gangl (born May 4, 1972 in Stuttgart ) is a German social scientist and university professor .

Life

Gangl studied sociology , political science and economics at the universities in Stuttgart and Mannheim . He graduated in 1997 as a social scientist in Mannheim. He then worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Science Center for Social Research and at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research . The doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. was carried out by Walter Müller in 2002 at the University of Mannheim with the dissertation Unemploymentdynamics in the United States and West Germany . The dissertation was awarded the Gerhard Fürst Prize.

In 2004 he Gangl a call to the Chair for Methods of Social Research and Applied Sociology at the University of Mannheim. In the 2007/2008 academic year he moved to the University of Wisconsin – Madison as Professor of Sociology . In 2011 he returned to Germany, where he held the professorship for sociology with a focus on social structure and social policy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . He also continues to work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an honorary professor in the Department of Sociology.

In 2012 Gangl was accepted into the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Research priorities

Gangl deals with the theoretical and empirical analysis of employment and life courses and income inequality. Among other things, he is also involved in the development of quantitative methods in social research .

Publications (selection)

• Unemployment dynamics in the United States and West Germany: economic restructuring, institutions and labor market processes. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003. ISBN 3-7908-1533-0
• with Thomas A. DiPrete: Assessing bias in the estimation of causal effects: Rosenbaum bounds on matching estimates and instrumental variables with imperfect instruments. Sociological Methodology 34, 271-310 (2004)
• Scar effects of unemployment: An assessment of institutional complementarities. American Sociological Review 71/6, 986-1013 (2006)
• Causal inference in sociological research. Annual Review of Sociology 36, 21-47 (2010)

Web links

• Gangl on uni-frankfurt.de
• New additions to the Leopoldina with biographies in 2012 (p. 27) (main source, as of February 20, 2014)