Professor

Research Interests

• Comparative Welfare State Research
• Policy Analysis, Long-term Care Policies
• Social Work and Social Policy

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Short CV

Since 2017
Professor for Political Science with a focus on Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

2010-2017
Professor for Social Policy at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies of the University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf.

2004-2010
Senior researcher at the Institute for Economic and Social Studies (WSI) at the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf.

2004
Dissertation in political sciences at the University of Heidelberg.

2003-2004
Seconded as an expert to the Office of the Committee for European Integration of the Polish government in Warsaw, funded by a scholarship program of the Volkswagen Foundation.

2000-2003
Doctoral student and post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne.

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Selected Publications

Full Publication List (August 2024)

Book

Falkner, Gerda/ Oliver Treib/ Miriam Hartlapp/ Simone Leiber (2005): Complying with Europe? The Impact of EU Minimum Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited volumes

Klammer, Ute/ Simone Leiber/ Sigrid Leitner (Hg.) (2019): Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press.

Klenner, Christina/ Simone Leiber (Hg.) (2010): Welfare States and Gender Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Continuity and Post-socialist Transformation in the EU Member States, Brussels: ETUI.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Leiber, Simone/ Rossow, Verena/ Österle, August/ Frerk, Timm (2021): Yet another black box: brokering agencies in the evolving market for live-in migrant care work in Austria and Germany, in: International Journal of Care and Caring, 5 (2), 187-208.

Leiber, Simone/ Kamil Matuszczyk/ Verena Rossow (2019): Private Labor Market Intermediaries in the Europeanized Live-in Care Market between Germany and Poland: A Typology, in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 65 (3), 365–392.

Leiber, Simone/ Stephanie Heinemann/ Stefan Greß (2014): Explaining Different Paths in Social Health Insurance Countries: Healthcare System Change and Cross-border Lesson-drawing between Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, in: Social Policy and Administration 49 (1), 48-108.

Heinemann, Stephanie/ Simone Leiber/ Stefan Greß (2013): Managed competition in the Netherlands - A qualitative study, in: Health Policy 109, 113-121.

Leiber, Simone/ Stefan Greß/ Maral-Sonja Manouguian (2010): Health Care System Change and the Cross-border Transfer of Ideas: Influence of the Dutch Model on the 2007 German Health Reform, in: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 35 (4), 539-568.

Hartlapp, Miriam/ Simone Leiber (2010): The Implementation of EU-Social Policy: The "Southern Problem" Re-visited, in: Journal of European Public Policy 17 (4), 468-486.

Leiber, Simone (2007): Transposition of EU Social Policy in Poland: Are there Different "Worlds of Compliance" in East and West?, in: Journal of European Social Policy 17 (4), 349-360.

Falkner, Gerda/ Simone Leiber (2004): Europeanization of Social Partnership in Smaller European Democracies?, in: European Journal of Industrial Relations 10 (3), 245-266.

Falkner, Gerda/ Miriam Hartlapp/ Simone Leiber/ Oliver Treib (2004): Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with EU Directives, in: West European Politics 27 (3), 452-473.

Contributions to collected books

Leiber, Simone/ Rossow Verena (2021): Self-regulation in a Grey Market? Insights from the Emerging Polish–German Business Field of Live-in Care Brokerage, in: Horn, Vincent et al. (Hg.): The Global Old Age Care Industry. Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2021, 127-152.

Klammer, Ute/ Simone Leiber/ Sigrid Leitner (2019): Introduction: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, in: dies. (Hg.): Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, 1-17.

Klammer, Ute/ Simone Leiber/ Sigrid Leitner (2019): Conclusion: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy – Lessons Learned, in: dies. (Hg.): Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, 217-228.

Conference papers

Auth, Diana/ Simone Leiber /Sigrid Leitner (2019): The interrelation of class, ethnicity, gender, and employment in coping with care: An intersectional analysis addressing family caregivers in Germany, Paper presented at the 4th Transforming Care Conference 2019, 24–26 June 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, Thematic panel “Inequalities and care needs in old age”