Publications 

Peer-review journal articles

• 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

• Diehl, C., Lang, J., Strauß, S. and Brüggemann, O. (2024) Is My Wage Fair? Validating Fairness Perceptions Among Women and Men. Working Paper No. 33, Cluster of Excellence ’The Politics of Inequality’ (Accepted at Socius) 

• Adriaans, J., Bohmann, S., Brüggemann, O., Kalleitner, F. and Moya, C. Informing about gender inequality: Beliefs about the gender pay gap and support for gender equality policies. (Data collection completed) 

• Hinz, T., Brüggemann, O., Lang, J., Strauss, S., Zubanov, N. Bringing in the Context: How Firm Characteristics are Related to Employees’ evaluation of Fair Wages. Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment. (Data collection completed)

• 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)