Michael Gebel is Full Professor of Sociology especially Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Bamberg. He graduated both in economics and social sciences and earned his doctoral degree in Sociology at the University of Mannheim. His main research interests are youth labour markets and transitions to adulthood in international comparison, specifically post socialist Eastern European and Muslim Middle Eastern countries.
He is co-coordinator of the international and interdisciplinary research EU-Horizon2020 project on social exclusion of youth in Europe (EXCEPT) (http://www.except-project.eu/home/)., which the European Commission funded with 2.5 Million Euros and involving 57 researchers from 9 countries and 13 advisory board members. In addition, he is coordinator of the research project "Opportunities and Barriers at the Transition from Education to Work. A Comparative Youth Study in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan" (http://www.tew-cca.de/) a project which involves 15 researchers from 5 countries and funded with 402,000 Euros by the VolkswagenStiftung.
Heyne, S. and M. Gebel (2016). Education effects on the school-to-work transition in Egypt: A cohort comparison of labor market entrants 1970-2012. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 46(A), 37-49.
Gebel, M. and S. Heyne (2016). Delayed transitions in times of increasing uncertainty: School-to-work transition and the delay of first marriage in Jordan. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 46(A), 61-72.
Gebel, M. and S. Heyne (2014). Transitions to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa: Young women’s rising? Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Gebel, M. and J. Voßemer (2014). The impact of employment transitions on health in Germany. A difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach. Social Science & Medicine, 108, 128–136.
Kogan, I., C. Noelke and M. Gebel (eds.) (2011). Making the transition. Education and labor market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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