Janine Leschke

Labour market policies, social policies and employment: comparative quantitative data analysis, non-standard employment, social insurance systems, flexicurity, labour migration.

July 2003 – December 2006: PhD at Social Science Faculty of Freie Universität Berlin

Title: ‘Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe capable of covering the special risks that persons with non-standard employment contracts are facing?’

June 2003: Diploma Politikwissenschaften (Political Science) studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Université Laval, Quebec. Specialisation in labour market policies, economics, and statistics

July 2003 – August 2006: Labour market researcher at Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Languages spoken:

German (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish (basic)

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• Leschke, J. / Jepsen, M. (2009) Transitional Labour Markets, from theory to policy application. Can transitional labour markets contribute to a less traditional gender division of labour ?, CES Working Papers, No. 2009.27, Paris: Sorbonne.

• Galgóczi, B. / J. Leschke / A. Watt (eds.) (2009) EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies, Aldershot: Ashgate.

• Galgóczi, B. / J. Leschke /A. Watt (2009) Intra-EU Labour Migration - Flows and Policy Responses, in: Galgóczi, B. / J. Leschke / A. Watt (eds.) EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies, Aldershot: Ashgate.

• Vandaele, K. / J. Leschke (2009) Seguire l’organising model dei sindacati britannici? L’organizzazione dei lavoratori atipici in Germania e Olanda, Economia & Lavoro, XLII (3), 157-181. (Following the ‘organizing model’ of British unions? Organizing non-standard workers in Germany and the Netherlands)

• Leschke, J. (2009) Has the Lisbon strategy contributed to more and better jobs?, in: Benchmarking Working Europe 2009, Brussels: ETUI.

• Leschke, J. (2008) Unemployment insurance and non-standard employment, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

• Keune, M. / J. Leschke / A. Watt (2008) Privatisation and liberalisation of public services in Europe. An analysis of economic and labour market impacts, Brussels: ETUI-REHS.

• Keune, M. / J. Leschke / A. Watt (2008) Introduction: liberalisation, privatisation and the labour market, in: Keune / Leschke / Watt: Privatisation and liberalisation of public services in Europe. An analysis of economic and labour market impacts, Brussels: ETUI-REHS.

• Leschke, J. / M. Keune (2008) Precarious employment in the public and private sectors: comparing the UK and Germany, in: Keune / Leschke / Watt: Privatisation and liberalisation of public services in Europe. An analysis of economic and labour market impacts, Brussels: ETUI-REHS.

• Leschke, J. (2008) Flexicurity in Germany: The Hartz Reforms, in: M. Jepsen / M. Keune (eds): How Secure is Flexicurity? Brussels: Peter Lange, forthcoming.

• Leschke, J. / M. Keune (2008) Precarious employment in the public and private sectors: comparing the UK and Germany, European Economic and Employment Policy Brief, No. 1(2008)

• Jepsen, M. / J. Leschke (2008) Social protection and social reality in Europe, in: Benchmarking Working Europe 2008, Brussels: ETUI-REHS.

• Leschke, J. (2007) To what extent are temporary work and part-time work cushioned by different forms of security?, in: H. Jørgensen / P. Madsen (eds.): Flexicurity and Beyond: Finding a new agenda for the European Social Model, DJØF Publishing, Copenhagen, p. 561-601.

• Leschke, J. / G. Schmid / D. Griga (2006) On the Marriage of Flexibility and Security: Lessons from the Hartz-reforms in Germany, in: H. Jørgensen / P. Madsen (eds.): Flexicurity and Beyond: Finding a new agenda for the European Social Model, DJØF Publishing, Copenhagen, 335-364.

• Leschke, J. (2007) Gender differences in unemployment insurance coverage – a comparative analysis, Discussion Paper, Berlin: WZB.

• Leschke, J. (2007) Employment, in: Benchmarking Working Europe 2007, Brussels: ETUI-REHS.

• Lehrer, D. / J. Leschke / S. Lhachimi / A. Vasiliu / B. Weiffen (2007) Negative results in social science, European Political Science 2007(6), 51–68.

• Leschke, J. (2007) Atypische Beschäftigung in Europa: Benachteiligung beim Zugang zu Arbeitslosenleistungen, RKW Magazin, 58(1), 22-23.

• Leschke J. (2007) Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe adapting to new risks arising from non-standard employment? Working Paper DULBEA , Research Series, N°07-05.RS, March.

• Jepsen, M. / J. Leschke (2006) New challenges for social protection in the EU, in: Labour Education 2006(4), no. 145.

• Leschke, J. / G. Schmid / D. Griga (2006) On the Marriage of Flexibility and Security: Lessons from the Hartz-reforms in Germany, Discussion Paper, Berlin: WZB.

• Auer, P. / Ü. Efendioglu / J. Leschke (2004) Active labour market polices around the world. Coping with the consequences of globalisation, Geneva: ILO.

• Schömann, K. / J. Leschke (2004) Lebenslanges Lernen und Soziale Inklusion – Der Markt alleine wird’s nicht richten, in: R. Becker / W. Lauterbach (eds.): Bildung als Privileg? Erklärungen und Befunde zu den Ursachen der Bildungsungleichheit, Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

• Leschke, J. / I. Schömann / K. Schömann (2004) Activation policies need careful policy design and monitoring: lessons from Canada and Germany, in: A. Serrano Pascual (ed.): Are activation models converging in Europe? The European Employment Strategy for young people, Brussels: ETUI-REHS.

Projects

• Job quality in Europe
• European Employment Policy
• Euro area forecasting network
• Cross-border labour mobility within enlarged EU
• Precarious employment in Europe
• Privatisation and marketisation of services - social and economic impacts on employment, labour markets and trade unions