Dr. Stefanie Gerold
Stefanie Gerold studied Economics (BSc) and Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy (MSc) at the Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU). She gained her PhD in Economics and Social Sciences in 2020. Her dissertation focused on employee preferences for shorter working hours, various models for working-time reduction as well as inequalities in working hours and income.
Between 2018 and 2022, Stefanie worked as a research assistant at TU Berlin. In the BMBF project ReZeitKon she researched changes in time use, time wealth and working condition during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the research project Platform Cleaners, funded by the Hans Boeckler Foundation, she investigated domestic cleaning services mediated by platforms.
In 2022, Stefanie started working as a postdoc at the Chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment at BTU Cottbus – Senftenberg.
Research areas
- Sustainable work and social-ecological transformation
- Time wealth and time use
- Platform work
- Critiques of work
Current courses
Winter semester 2022/23:
Sommersemester 2022:
Recent publications
Peer-reviewed articles:
Geiger, S.M., Freudenstein, J.-P., von Jorck, G., Gerold, S., Schrader, U. (2021). Time wealth: Measurement, drivers and consequences. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 2: 100015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100015
Kammerlander, M., Omann, I., Gerold, S., Mock, M., Stocker, A. (2020). How does a social practice perspective add to the development of policy instruments to reduce consumption-based CO2 emissions? A case study of Austria. Climate Policy 20, 323-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1727830
Gerold, S., Nocker, M. (2018). More leisure or higher pay? A mixed-methods study on reducing working time in Austria. Ecological Economics 143, 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.06.016
Gerold, S., Soder, M., Schwendinger, M. (2017). Arbeitszeitverkürzung in der Praxis. Innovative Modelle in österreichischen Betrieben. Materialien für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 43/2, 177-204. https://wug.akwien.at/WUG_Archiv/2017_43_2/2017_43_2_0177.pdf
Gerold, S. (2017). Die Freizeitoption: Perspektiven von Gewerkschaften und Beschäftigten auf ein neues Arbeitszeitinstrument. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 42/2, 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-017-0265-7
Book chapters:
Geiger, S.M., Gerold, S. (2022). Interdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften: Zeitwohlstand. Erkenntnisse aus den pandemiebedingten Einschränkungen als Chance für eine gesellschaftliche Entschleunigung. In: Mundt, I./Sellig, J./Henkel, A. (Eds.), 10 Minuten Soziologie: Stress. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 151-162. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459614-012
Gerold, S. (2021). Revaluations of Work: Enabling and Combining a Diversity of Activities. In Seidl, I., Zahrnt, A. (Hg.) Post-Growth Work. Employment and Meaningful Activities within Planetary Boundaries, Routledge, 43-54.
Gerold, S. (2019). Neubewertungen von Arbeit: Vielfalt von Tätigkeiten ermöglichen und kombinieren, In Seidl, I., Zahrnt, A. (Hg.), Tätigsein in der Postwachstumsgesellschaft. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, 59–73.
Working papers and project reports:
Gerold, S.,Gruszka, K., Pillinger, A., Theine, H. (2022). Putzkraft aus dem Netz – Perspektiven und Erfahrungen von Reinigungskräften in der plattformvermittelten Haushaltsreinigung, Working Paper der HBS-Forschungsförderung Nr. 259.
Hofbauer, J., Gerold, S., Klaus, D., Wukovitsch, F. (2022). Kapitel 7. Erwerbsarbeit. In: Görg, C., Madner, V., Muhar, A., Novy, A., Posch, A., Steininger, K., Aigner, E. (Hrsg.): APCC Special Report: Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben. Springer Spektrum: Berlin/Heidelberg., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4223121
Gerold, S., Hoffmann, M., Aigner, E. (2022). Towards a Critical Appraisal of Work in Ecological Economics: A Moral Economy Perspective. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4196768
Gruszka, K., Pillinger, A., Gerold, S., Theine, H. (2022). (De)valuation of household cleaning in the platform economy. Ecological Economic Papers No. 44/2022. WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Buhl, J., Erdmann, L., Gerold, S., Geiger, S., Jorck, G. v., Schrader, U. (2021). Time use rebound effects from adopting time efficient practices in Germany: a zero-inflated negative binomial approach. Arbeitspapier des Fachgebiets Arbeitslehre/Ökonomie und Nachhaltiger Konsum 3.
Gerold, S., Geiger, S. (2020). Arbeit, Zeitwohlstand und Nachhaltiger Konsum während der Corona-Pandemie. Arbeitspapier des Fachgebiets Arbeitslehre/Ökonomie und Nachhaltiger Konsum Nr. 2.
Gerold, S., Stein, U. (2020). Are working hours a new driver of inequality? On the relation between hours inequality, earnings inequality, and collective bargaining in Germany.IMK Working Paper 203, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.