Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS)

Lina Tobler

Research focuses

• Social inequality in the labor market
• Transition from education to work
• Labor market consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

Curriculum vitae

• 2012-2016: B.A. Sociology, University of Mannheim (and University of Leeds)
• 2016-2017: M.Sc. Sound Design and Audiovisual Practice, University of Glasgow
• 2018-2021: M.Sc. Sociology and Social Research, University of Cologne
• since 2020: Research Associate, University of Cologne

Selected publications

• Tobler, L. & Leesch, J. (2026) Workers, jobs, and how they are matched: A decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch. Social Science Research 135, 103311: 1-15. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103311
• Tobler, L., Christoph, B., Fervers, L. & Jacob, M. (2025) When the Burden Lifts: The Effect of School and Day Care Reopenings on Parents' Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies 26, 4: 1-34. doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00819-7
• Tobler L., Fervers L., Jacob M. & Knize V. (2024) Unequal effects on working time: immigrants' vulnerability in the German labor market in the early COVID-19 pandemic. European Societies 26(5): 1307-1332. doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2024.2308011.
• Fervers L., Tobler L., Knize V., Christoph B. & Jacob M. (2023). Kids back to school - parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents' employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of European Social Policy, 33(3): 373-387. doi.org/10.1177/09589287231176775
• Knize V., Tobler L., Christoph B., Fervers L. & Jacob M. (2022). Workin' moms ain't doing so bad: Evidence on the gender gap in working hours at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Research, 34(1): 161-192. doi.org/10.20377/jfr-714