Soziologie

From secondments to platform and gig work to daily commuting: cross-border labor markets are a very multifaceted phenomenon. In an interview with Christina Petrick-Löhr from Personalwirtschaft, Prof. Ursula Mense-Petermann, talks about the diversity and complexity of cross border labour markets and what it means to see them not only as empirical phenomena but as social structures with own patterns, rules and regulations. She explains, how this approach is taken up by a group of international researchers in the recently established Research Training Group on ”Cross-border Labour Markets”, hosted by Bielefeld University and University Duisburg-Essen.

Full interview