Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Biegert, Thomas, Kühhirt, Michael & Van Lancker, Wim (2026): There Is Cumulative Status Bias and Status Entrenchment in NBA Awards: Comment on McMahan and Shor (2024). Sociological Science 13: 287-302. [Open access link] [Replication files]

Breznau, Nate, … Biegert, Thomas … (total of 151 authors) (2025): The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions. Royal Society Open Science 12(3): 241038. [Open access link]

Biegert, Thomas, Kühhirt, Michael & Van Lancker, Wim (2023): They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections. American Sociological Review 88(2): 189-219. [Open access link] [Replication files]

Biegert, Thomas, Özcan, Berkay & Rossetti-Youlton, Magdalena (2023): Household Joblessness in US Metropolitan Areas during the COVID19 Pandemic: Polarization and the Role of Educational Profiles. Socius 9: 23780231231158087. [Open access link] [Replication files]

Biegert, Thomas, Brady, David & Hipp, Lena (2022): Cross-National Variation in the Relationship between Welfare Generosity and Single Mother Employment. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 702(1): 37-54. [Open access link]

Breznau, Nate, … Biegert, Thomas … (total of 166 authors) (2022): Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(44): e2203150119. [Open access link]

Biegert, Thomas & Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2022): Accumulation or absorption? Changing disparities of household non-employment in Europe during the Great Recession. Socio-Economic Review 20(1): 141-168. [Link] [Replication files & ungated pre-review version]

Biegert, Thomas (2019): Labor Market Institutions, the Insider/Outsider Divide and Social Inequalities in Employment in Affluent Countries. Socio-Economic Review 17(2): 255-281. [Link]

Meyer, Brett & Biegert, Thomas (2019): The Conditional Effect of Technological Change on Collective Bargaining Coverage. Research & Politics. [Open access link] [Replication files]

Biegert, Thomas & Kühhirt, Michael (2018): Taking Lemons for a Trial Run: Does Type of Job Exit Affect the Risk of Entering Fixed-term Employment in Germany? European Sociological Review 34(2): 184-197. [Link] [Replication files & ungated pre-review version]

Brady, David & Biegert, Thomas (2017): The Rise of Precarious Employment in Germany. Research in Sociology of Work 31: 245-271. [Link] [Ungated version]

Biegert, Thomas (2017): Welfare Benefits and Unemployment in Affluent Democracies: The Moderating Role of the Institutional Insider/Outsider Divide. American Sociological Review 82(5): 1037-1064. [Link]

Biegert, Thomas (2014): On the Outside Looking in? Transitions Out of Non-employment in the United Kingdom and Germany. Journal of European Social Policy 24(1): 3-18 (JESP/ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Prize Paper). [Link]

Monographs, Chapters, Working Papers

König, Christian, Biegert, Thomas, Heisig, Jan Paul & Solga, Heike (2025): Cross-National Analysis of the Short- and Longer-Term Effects of Conditions at Labor Market Entry. Mapineq Deliverable No. D4.2. [Link]

Biegert, Thomas (2023): Labour Market Policies and Social Inequality in Labour Market Outcomes, in: Clegg, Daniel & Durazzi, Niccolo (eds.): Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing: 479-494.

Täht, Kadri, Unt, Marge & Biegert, Thomas (2023): Does a Higher Minimum Salary Protect Youth from In-work Poverty? Cross-national Evidence from the EU, in: Karner, Christian & Hofäcker, Dirk (eds.): Research Handbook on the Sociology of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 275-287.

Unt, Marge, Täht, Kadri & Biegert, Thomas (2022): Cross-national Differences in In-work Poverty among Young Adults in EU. EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 18. [Link]

Unt, Marge, Täht, Kadri & Biegert, Thomas (2022): An Assessment of In-work Poverty among Female and Male Youth in Europe. EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 16. [Link]

Brady, David, Biegert, Thomas & Vitols, Sigurt (2015): Continuity and Change in the German Labour Market, in: Dolphin, Tony (ed.): Technology, Globalisation, and the Future of Work in Europe. Essays on Employment in a Digitised Economy. London: Institute for Public Policy Research: 69-73.

Biegert, Thomas (2014): Patterns of Non-employment: How Labor Market Institutions Shape Social Inequality in Employment Performance in Europe. Mannheim: University of Mannheim (Dissertation, received the Lorenz von Stein Prize for the best dissertation in Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim in 2014). [Link]

Biegert, Thomas (2011): Patterns of Non-employment: Labor Market Institutions and the Employment Performance of Social Groups. MZES Working Paper 145. [Link]

Work Under Review and in Progress

Economic Impact on Labor Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the EU (with Marge Unt & Kadri Täht, under review)

Why Comparative Social Policy Research Needs Better Theory and Measurement (with Wim Van Lancker, under review)

Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Researching Institutional Interplay (in progress)

The Impact of Labor Market Conditions at Entry in the EU (with Christian König, Heike Solga & Jan-Paul Heisig, in progress)

Household Joblessness in US Local Labor Markets, 1970-2021 (with Berkay Özcan, in progress)

Methods for Researching the Impact of Social Policies on Socio-Economic Outcomes (in progress)

Group Differences in Cumulative Status Bias in Basketball Awards (in preparation)

Blog Posts, Media Coverage, etc.

“Was macht den Star zum Star?”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 19, 2023. [Link]

“Households failed to absorb massive job loss during economic crisis”, Social Europe, 02/2020. [Link]

“Nutzlose Befristungen”, Böckler Impuls, 09/2018. [Link]

“The Worker Retraining Challenge”, U.S. News & World Report, February 6, 2018. [Link]

“Good Job”, LSE News, December 15, 2017. [Link]

“A generous welfare state can help reduce unemployment – if there are good job opportunities for the jobless.”, LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog, October 3, 2017. [Link]