Module II

Socio-Economic Inequality in Times of Crises

This module sheds light on socio-economic inequalities in times of crisis using a unifying empirical approach and leveraging a variety of data sources, such as linked registers, survey experiments, and high-frequency process data. Using crisis as a category of analysis, the projects in this module pay particular attention to crises as objectifiable events such as the COVID-19 crisis, the 2007/8 Financial Crisis, the environmental crisis or humanitarian migration due to political crises, including warfare.

Beyond this, the projects are also interested in the political implications of such crisis events, and whether they can exacerbate system-endemic crises, such as the erosion of liberal democracy. This module thus explores how these crises deepen existing inequalities and discrimination, how they shape intergroup relations, and how these relations, in turn, affect support for democracy, and how the associated processes interact with ethnicity, gender, and migration status.

Contacts

Michael Siegenthaler, Main Representative and Representative in the Scientific Committee
Eva Green, Representative in the Education and Equal Opportunities Committee
Philippe Wanner, Representative in the Knowledge Transfer and Communication Committee
Kristina Schüpbach, Module Coordinators

Projects

Tobias Müller (University of Geneva), Martina Viarengo (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Philippe Wanner (University of Geneva)
The Longitudinal Impact of Crises on Economic, Social, and Mobility-Related Outcomes: The Role of Gender, Skills, and Migration Status

Eva G. T. Green (University of Lausanne), Anita Manatschal (University of Neuchâtel) and Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor (University of Geneva)
Attitudes Towards Migration and Democracy in Times of Intertwined Crises

Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich) and Michael Siegenthaler (ETH Zurich)
Monitoring Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination in Hiring Decisions in Times of Crisis