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Ulrike Muehlberger
Ph.D., Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

Spring 2008

email: Ulrike.Muehlberger [@] wifo.ac.at

Education

• 2004, PhD in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence
• 2002, PhD in Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
• 2000, Master in Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
• 1998, Master in Political Science, University of Vienna
  

Positions Held

• Current Positio n Researcher, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
• November 2002–November 2007 Lecturer/Assistant Professor/Universitätsassistentin Department of Economics, Unit of Labour Economics Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration
• June 2001–September 2002 Junior Lecturer/Vertragsassistenti n Department of Economics, Unit of Labour Economics, Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration
• July 2000–June 2003
  Research Fellow Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Growth Research, Vienna
• November 1997 and July 1998
  Project Assistant Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO )
• April–October 1997
  Project Assistant University of Vienna, Department of Government
• October 1996–September 1997
  Project Assistant Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Growth
  Research, Vienna
• October 1995–July 1996
  Teaching Assistant Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration
  

Visiting Positions

• February 2007 Visiting Researcher European University Institute
• September 2005–Dezember 2005 and March 2006
  Visiting Researcher ICER (International Center for Economic Research), Turin
• September 2004–August 2005 Visiting Researcher, Harvard University (Weatherhead Center)
• October 2000–January 2001 Visiting PhD Researcher London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of Industrial Relations
• September 2000 Visiting Researcher ECASS, University of Essex
• March 2000 Visiting Researcher Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies (CEPS/INSTEAD), Luxembourg
• October 1996–July 1997 Visiting Student University of Constance, Germany
  

Research Prizes

• 2007 Dr. Heinz Kienzl Prize
• 2004 Research Prize ofthe Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation
• 2004 Leopold Kunschak Prize
• 1998 Theodor Körner Prize
  

Fellowships and Grants

• 2008 Fellowship ofthe Berkeley-Austria-Exchange Program for a one-month research visit atthe University of California at Berkeley.
• 2005–2006 Fellowship atthe International Center for Economic Research (ICER), Turin, Italy
• 2004–2005 Grant fromthe Austrian Central Bank (‘OeNB-WU Förderpreis’)
• 2004–2005 Dr. Maria Schaumayer Post-doc Fellowship
• 2000–2001 Post-graduate scholarship fromthe European Union
• 2000–2001 Socrates grant
• 2000 Fellowship from TMR Large Scale Facility Programme (EU)
• 1998–2000 Post-graduate fellowship fromthe Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport
• 1998–2000 Post-graduate fellowship fromthe Bundesland Upper Austria for International Study Programmes
• 1999 Publication subsidy fromthe Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport
• 1999 Grant fromthe Viennese Chamber of Labour
• 1998 Scholarship fromthe Socialforum, Vienna
• 1997 Scholarship fromthe Johann-Böhm-Fund, Vienna
• 1996–1997 Erasmus Grant fromthe European Union

Research Interests

Labour Economics, Gender and Work, Organisation Studies

Teaching

Labour Markets and Atypical Employment, Outsourcing and Dependent Forms Experience of Self-employment, Gender and Work, Introduction to Micro- and Macro­economics, Applied Microeconomics

Other Academic Activities

• Seminar on “Gender-sensitive University Didactics”, Department of Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration
• July 2004 Summer School ofthe European Science Days 2004 on “Organizational Economics.theory and Evidence on the Boundary ofthe Firms” (Scientific Director: George Baker, Harvard University)
• July 2003 Summer School ofthe European Science Days 2003 on “Work, Pay and Productivity. Personnel Economics” (Scientific Director: Edward Lazear, Stanford University)

Languages

• German (native)
• English (excellent)
• Italian (good)
• French (fair)

Publications

Monographs

• Muehlberger, U. (2007): Dependent Self-Employment: Workers onthe Border between Employment and Self-Employment. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mühlberger, U. (2000): Neue Formen der Beschäftigung. Arbeitsflexibilisierung durch atypische Beschäftigung in Österreich, Vienna: Braumüller.

Articles

• Muehlberger, U. and Bertolini, S. (forthcoming): the Organizational Governance of Work Relationships between Employment and Self-employment. Socio-Economic Review.
• Muehlberger, U. and Pasqua, S. (forthcoming): Workers onthe Border Between Employment and Self-employment. Review of Social Economy.
• Muehlberger, U. (2007): Hierarchical Forms of Outsourcing andthe Creation of Dependency. Organization Studies, 28 (5), 707-729.
• Mühlberger, U. (2000): Zur sozialen Konstruktion der Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Frauen, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 29 (3), 357-371.
• Mühlberger, U. (1998): Atypische Beschäftigung in Österreich, in: WISO, 21 (4), 73­102.
• Zagler, M. and Mühlberger, U. (1998): the European Employment Price Index: Implementation and Feasibility in Austria, Austrian Journal of Statistics, 27 (3), 159-169.

Chapters In Books

• Mühlberger, U. (2004): Arbeitsmarktökonomie aus der Gender-Perspektive, in Hanappi-Egger, E., Bendl, R. and Hofmann, R., Interdisziplinäres Gender- und Diversitätsmanagement: Einführung intheorien und Praxis, Vienna: Linde Verlag.
• Mühlberger, U. (2004): Wege aus der Frauenarmut durch Arbeitsmarktpartizipation, in Heitzmann, K. and Schmidt, A., Auswege aus der FrauenArmut, Frankfurt, et al.: Peter Lang.
• Tálos, E. (in association with Ulrike Mühlberger) (1999): Atypische Beschäftigung in Österreich, in Tálos, E. (ed.), Atypische Beschäftigung: Internationale Trends und sozialstaatliche Regelungen, Vienna: Manz, 252-284.

Conference Papers

• Mühlberger, U. (1999): Explaining Atypical Employment: Towards an Integrated Proceeding Economic and Sociological Approach, in Kantarelis, D. (ed.), Business and Economics for the 21st Century, Volume III, Worcester, 281-292.
• Working Muehlberger, Ulrike and Pasqua, Silvia (2006): the “Continuous Collaborators” in Italy. Hybrids between Employment and Self-employment. CHILD Working Paper 10/2006.
• Muehlberger, Ulrike and Pasqua, Silvia. 2006. Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment. ICER Working Paper 11/2006.
• Böheim, R. and Muehlberger, U. (2006): Dependent Forms of Self-employment inthe UK. Identifying Workers onthe Border between Employment and Self-employment, IZA Working Paper No. 1963 and Working Paper No. 93 at the Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration.
• Muehlberger, U. (2005): Hierarchies, Relational Contracts, and New Forms of Outsourcing, ICER Working Paper 22/05.
• Muehlberger, U. (2002): From Relational Employment to Relational Contracting: Outsourcing and Dependent Self-employment inthe British and Austrian Insurance Industry, EUI SPS Working Paper, Florence.
• Muehlberger, U. (2000): Women’s Labour Force Attachment in Europe: An Analytical Framework and Empirical Evidence for the Household, IRISS Working Paper Series No. 2000-07, Brussels: Directorate General XII.

Theses

• Muehlberger, U. (2004): From Relational Employment to Relational Contracting.theory and Evidence of Dependent Self-employment, PhD thesis atthe European University Institute (EUI), Department of Social and Political Sciences.
• Mühlberger, U. (2002): Outsourcing, Dependency and Quasi-integration, Doctoral Dissertation atthe Vienna University of Economics & B. A.
• Mühlberger, U. (1998): Atypische Beschäftigung in Österreich: Sozial- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Implikationen atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse, Master’s thesis, University of Vienna.
• Project
• Böheim, R., Mühlberger, U. and Weber, A. (2005–2007): Is there an Integrative And Function of Labour Flexibility? Study financed bythe Jubiläumsfonds ofthe OeNB.
• Studies Zagler, M. and Muehlberger, U. (2000–2003): the Logic of Outsourcing and Dependent Self-employment. A Comparative Analysis of Motives, Rationales, and Explanations in Austria andthe United Kingdom. Study financed bythe Jubiläumsfonds ofthe OeNB.
• Aiginger, K. and Czerny, M. (in association with Böheim, M. Knoll, N. Obermair, A. Stankovsky, J. Tolonay, R. Mühlberger, U. Ragacs, Ch. Zagler, M.) (1998): Kooperationen in einem erweiterten Europa. Industrielle Mittelbetriebe im Transformationsprozeß der MOEL, Study ofthe Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO).
• Tálos, E (in association with Ulrike Mühlberger) (1998): Länderbericht Österreich, in Tálos, E., Atypische Beschäftigungsformen und politische Maßnahmen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Fraueninteressen, Study of the Department of Government and Political Science at the University of Vienna.
• Zagler, M., Walther, H., Guger, A., Mühlberger, U., Ragacs, C. (1997): the European Employment Cost Index, Implementation and Feasibility in Austria, Study ofthe Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Growth Research.
• Work in Muehlberger, U. and Pernicka, S.: Transferring the Labour-Capital Conflict into the Progress Domain of Corporate Associations:the Case of Dependent Forms of Self- and employment. To be submitted tothe European Journal of Industrial Relations.
• Submissions Pernicka, S. and Muehlberger, U: Abhängige Selbstständigkeit in der Versicherungswirtschaft. Neue Konflikte im Spannungsfeld traditioneller Vertretungsstrukturen. To be submitted to Industrielle Beziehungen.
• Böheim, R. and Muehlberger, U.: Dependent Forms of Self-employment inthe UK. Identifying Workers onthe Border between Employment and Self-employment. To be submitted to the Industrial Relations Journal.

Conference Presentations

• The Organizational Governance of Work Relationships Between Employment and Self-employment. European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), Vienna, Austria, July 5-7, 2007.
• Transferringthe labour-capital conflict intothe domain of corporate associations:the case of dependent forms of self-employment. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 28-30, 2007.
• Dependent Self-employment. Tagung vom Beirat für gesellschaft-, wirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Alternativen (BEIGEWUM) und Forschungswerkstatt In Fem. "Ensicherungsgesellschaft. Aktuelle Debatten zur Präkarisierung", Vienna, Austria, May 3-5, 2007.
• Dependent Self-employment inthe UK. Workers onthe Border between Employment and Self-employment. European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-23, 2006.
• The Organizational Governance of Work Relationships between Employment and Self-Employment. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Trier, Germany, June 30–July 2, 2006.
• European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Verona, Italy, June 22-24, 2006.
• 7th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, London, July 15–17, 2005.
• Economics for the Future, Celebrating 100 years of Cambridge Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge (UK), September 17–19, 2003.
• 13th World Congress ofthe International Industrial Relations Association (IRRA), Berlin, September 8–12, 2003.
• 15th Annual Meeting ofthe Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Aix-en-Provence, June 26–28, 2003.
• Presentation atthe Research Seminar ofthe Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU), University of Warwick, November 13, 2002.
• 15th World Congress of Sociology ofthe International Sociological Association (ISA), Brisbane, July 7–13, 2002.
• International Conference atthe Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University on "The Regional Divide. Promises and Realities of the New Economy in a Transatlantic Perspective," Toronto, May 3–4, 2002.
• 12th Annual Meeting ofthe Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), London School of Economics, July 7–10, 2000.
• 3rd Business and Economics Society International Conference, Las Palmas, July 22–26, 1999.