To provide socially necessary services: Is working for the common good attractive?

GenDis investigates the social situation, occupational mobility and occupational motivation of service workers producing public goods. Particular attention is paid to occupations in which contradictions between the relevance to the common good and working conditions are commonplace or in which personnel bottlenecks are predicted. The project aims to find out under which conditions people of working age are also prepared in the future to engage professionally in socially necessary services (e.g. health, security, education).

The Sociological Research Institute Göttingen (SOFI) is leading the project, evaluating survey and process data and carrying out qualitative analyses. Scientific cooperation partners in the project are the BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training) and the GWS.

Publications
Lehweß-Litzmann, R., Vogel, B., Sonnenburg, A., Thobe, I., Wolter, M. I., Krebs, B. & Maier, T. (2021): Arbeit für Daseinsvorsorge und Klimaschutz Impulspapier, Göttingen.
Sonnenburg, A., Thobe, I. & Wolter, M. I. (2021): Gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen im Wirtschaftskreislauf. GWS Discussion Paper 2021/2, Osnabrück.
Wolter, M. I. & Bernardt, F. (2021): Situation der gesellschaftlich notwendigen Dienstleistungen in Südniedersachsen. GWS Discussion Paper 2021/1, Osnabrück.
Lehweß-Litzmann, R., Sonnenburg, A., Thobe, I., Wolter, M. I., Krebs, B., Maier, T. & Vogel, B. (2020): Was sind gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen? Eine konzeptionelle Eingrenzung. SOFI Working Paper 2020-20, Göttingen.
Sonnenburg, A., Thobe, I., Krebs, B. & Lehweß-Litzmann, R. (2020): Gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen sicherstellen. GWS Kurzmitteilung 2020/03, Osnabrück.