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Research Interests

• Reconciliation of family care and paid work
• Family care and well-being
• Social inequality

Research Projects

• Principal Investigator in the project ‚Teurer Wohnen: Entwicklung der Wohnkostenbelastung im Lebensverlauf seit den 1990er Jahren‘ (Hans Böckler Foundation, 2024–2026)
• Principal Investigator in the project ‚Pflege-Ruhestand-geringerer Rentenanspruch? Familiäre Pflege in der späten Erwerbsphase und ihre Konsequenzen für die Alterssicherung‘ (FNA, 2022–2023)

Biography

• since 2018 Researcher at the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), Berlin
• 2018 Ph.D. in Sociolgy, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen/Jacobs University
• 2017 Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin
• 2014–2017 Research Assistant, at the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Bremen University

Selected Publications

• Kelle, N. & Ehrlich, U. (2025). Family care in Germany and its gender-(un)specific patterns: An analysis using novel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample. International Journal of Care and Caring, 9(2), 197─213. DOI: 10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000084 (vorab online publiziert: 24.10.2024)
• Ehrlich, U., Kelle, N., Klaus, D., Möhring, U. (2024). How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the wellbeing of family care-givers? A longitudinal study of older adults in Germany. Ageing & Society, 44(7), 1533-1550. DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X22000873 (vorab online publiziert: 19.08.2022)
• Ehrlich, U. (2023). The association between family care and paid work among women in Germany: Does the household economic context matter? Work, Employment and Society, 37(1), 117–136. DOI: 10.1177/09500170211069841  (first published online May 12, 2022)
• Henning, G., Ehrlich, U., Gow, A. J., Kelle, N., & Muniz-Terrera, G. (2023). Longitudinal associations of volunteering, grandparenting, and family care with processing speed: A gender perspective on prosocial activity and cognitive aging in the second half of life. Psychology and Aging 38(8), 790–807. DOI: 10.1037/pag0000780
• Möhring, K., Zinn, S. Ehrlich, U. (2023). Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers. European Journal of Ageing, 20(15). DOI: 10.1007/s10433-023-00761-2
• Ehrlich, U., Möhring, K., Drobnič, S. (2020). What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women’s Employment. Journal of Family Issues 41(9), 1387–1419 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X19880934 (first published online October 16, 2019)
• Ehrlich, U., Minkus, L., Hess, M. (2020). Einkommensrisiko Pflege? Der Zusammenhang von familiärer Pflege und Lohn [The care-wage penalty: the association between family care and wages]. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 53(1), 22–28 DOI: 10.1007/s00391-019-01666-5
• Ehrlich, U., Kelle, N. (2019): Pflegende Angehörige in Deutschland: Wer pflegt, wo, für wen und wie? [Family caregivers in Germany: Who provides care? Where? For whom? And how?] Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 65(2), 175–203. DOI: 10.1515/zsr-2019-0007
• Ehrlich, U. (2019): Familiäre Pflege und Erwerbsarbeit: Auf dem Weg zu einer geschlechtergerechten Aufteilung? [Family care and paid work: On the way towards more gender equality?] Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 69(33-34), 49–54.

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