Publications 

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Diehl, C., Lang, J., Brüggemann, O. and Strauß, S. (2025) Is My Wage Fair? Validating Fairness Perceptions Among Women and Men. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 

• Brüggemann, O., Lang, J. (2025) Gendered Responses to Unfair Pay: Evidence from a Factorial Survey Experiment among Employees in German Firms. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 

• Strauß, S., Brüggemann, O. and Lang, J. (2025) Who Perceives Lower Wages for Women to be Fair? How Perceptions of the Fairness of Men’s and Women’s Wages Vary by Firm and Workplace Characteristics. European Sociological Review

• Brüggemann, O. (2024) Employees‘ perceptions of internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time. European Societies 

• Brüggemann, O. and Hinz, T. (2023) Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries. European Sociological Review 

Research magazine articles

• Brüggemann, O., Hinz, T., Lang, J., Strauß, S. and Zubanov, N. (2025) Wie fair empfinde ich meinen Lohn? Das Arbeitsumfeld macht den Unterschied. IAB-Forum 

• Strauß, S., Brüggemann, O., Lang, J. (2022) From Her Perspective. The Work Context Shapes Women’s Views on Pay. In_equality magazine, N° 4: 46-49

• Hinz, T., Liebig, S. & Brüggemann, O. (2021) Gendered Professions, Gendered Pay: The Question of Fairness. In_equality magazine, N° 2: 22-25 

Others

• Brüggemann, O. (2024) Fortbestehende Geschlechterungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt: Wahrnehmungen von Verteilungsgerechtigkeit und beruflichem Aufstieg. Dissertation

• Strauß, S., Hinz, T., Zubanov, N., Lang, J. and Brüggemann, O. (2022) Fair: Arbeiten in Deutschland. Dataset 

Work in Progress

• Hinz, T., Brüggemann, O., Lang, J., Strauss, S., and Zubanov, N. Absolute Pay, Relative Position, and Inequality: Employees’ Perceptions of Fair Earnings Within Firms. (Under review)

• Kalleitner, F., Adriaans, J., Brüggemann, O., Moya, C. and Bohmann, S. Agreeing in Principle, Disagreeing on Policy: How Beliefs About the Gender Pay Gap Shape Fairness Concerns and Policy Preferences. (Data collection completed) 

• Brüggemann, O., Hinz, T., Lang, J., Strauss, S., and Zubanov, N. Filling Two Needs with One Deed. How Reminders Can Improve Reliability and Validity of Survey-Based Estimates. (Data collection completed)