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., Zubanov, N. Absolute Pay, Relative Position, and Inequality: Employees’ Perceptions of Fair Earnings Within Firms. (R&R)

• 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. (*shared first-authorship, order based on lottery, Working Paper)

• Adriaans, J., Bohmann, S., Brüggemann, O., Kalleitner, F. and Moya, C. From Problems to Solutions: How Beliefs about Policy Effectiveness and Popularity Affect Demand for Gender Equality Policies. (alphabetical order, proposal submitted to call for replication and novel political science survey experiments)

• Brüggemann, O. and Di Stasio, V. Beyond Overt Discrimination: The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Subtle Discrimination at Work. (Pilot completed, data collection in UK, DE, NL and ES ongoing, pre-registration in preparation)

• Brüggemann, O. and Di Stasio, V. Subtle Also Counts: Shifting Managers’ Attributions, Responses, and Policy Preferences on Workplace Discrimination. (Pilot completed, data collection  in UK, DE, NL and ES ongoing, pre-registration in preparation)

• Brüggemann, O. and Di Stasio, V. Same Situation, Different Actors: Discrimination Attributions from Multiple Perspectives. (Pilot completed, data collection in UK, DE, NL and ES ongoing, pre-registration in preparation)

• Brüggemann, O., Martiniello, B. and Di Stasio, V. From Recognition to Action: How Prototypicality Shapes Employees’ Informal and Formal Reporting of Ethnic Discrimination. (Pilot completed, data collection in UK, DE, NL and ES ongoing, pre-registration in preparation)

• Brüggemann, O., Di Stasio, V. and Geurts, N. Do Others See It as Discrimination? How Social Expectations Shape Bystander Intervention at Work. (Pilot completed, data collection in UK, DE, NL and ES ongoing, pre-registration in preparation)

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