Visiting Academic - Professor Ulrike Schneider (May-August 2007)

Professor Schneider trained in economics at the University of Hannover (Germany) and started working at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Department of Economics) in 2002. She is Director of the Institute for Social Policy and of the (newly established) Research Institute for the Economics of Aging. In addition, she is Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Nonprofit Organizations.

Through her academic work, Professor Schneider has developed research interests in a range of issues at the intersection of ageing, economics, and social policy analysis. Her interest in the Economics of Aging was intensified in the course of post-doctoral studies at the Universities of Syracuse and Berkeley and at the Urban Institute in 1994/95.

In the past decade Professor Schneider has specialized on issues related to long-term care. Her work has included peer-reviewed externally funded research on living and care arrangements of older persons, the relationship between employment and informal care, funding and provision of long-term care services, and long-term care policy in Germany, Austria and the United States.

Building on her previous research, Professor Schneider continues to carry out research on public programs in support of older persons, with a particular emphasis on access to and provision of social services. She has a particular interest in the relative performance of non-profit organisations in the provision of quality social services. In addition, she is investigating workplace issues and corporate caregiver assistance schemes. Professor Schneider also has an interest in old-age poverty risks.

Selected Publications
Schneider, Ulrike, Österle, August (2007): Fiscal Competition and Activist Social Policy. In: Andersson, K.; Eberhartinger, E.; Oxelheim, L. (eds): National Tax Policy in the EU – To Be or Not to Be? Springer (in print)

Schneider, Ulrike, Reyes, Carlos. (2007): Mixed blessings - A discussion of long-term care benefits in Germany. In: Claire Ungerson; Sue Yeandle (eds.): Commodified care in developed welfare states. Palgrave McMillan, 137-165.

Spiess, C. Katharina, Schneider, Ulrike (2003). Interactions between care giving and paid work hours among European midlife women, 1994 to 1996. Ageing and Society, 23, 1, 41-68.

Sabelhaus, John, Schneider, Ulrike. 1997. Measuring the Distribution of Well-Being: Why Income and Consumption Give Different Answers. Konjunkturpolitik. Zeitschrift für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (Applied Economics Quarterly), 43, 2, 153-176.

See also following links:-
Vienna University of Economics and Business Adminstration
Institute for Social Policy, Vienna
Forschungsinstitut für Altersökonomie