Aart-Jan Riekhoff

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"Behind Closed Doors: Intra-Couple Pension and Wealth Gaps in Germany and Beyond" 🚪👩‍🦳👴
@lisdata.bsky.social / @liser.lu policy brief by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and me out now!
Read more here 👉
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Hae Eläketurvakeskuksen pro gradu -palkintoa! Palkitsemme ansiokkaan eläkeaiheisen opinnäytteen vuodelta 2025. Palkinnon arvo 2 000 on euroa.

https://www.etk.fi/ajankohtaista/pro-gradu-palkinto-haettavissa-vuonna-2025-hyvaksytylle-elakeaiheiselle-opinnaytteelle/

#gradu #palkinto #eläke

Congrats, Jan! 🤩

The average future net replacement rate in the OECD is 63%. Retirement ages are set to increase in more than half of OECD countries, on average from 64.7 to 66.4 years. Men have higher disposable income than women in old age, at 92% and 82% of the average disposable income of the total population, respectively. Gender gaps are large, but steadily declining, from 28% in 2007 to 23% in 2024 in the OECD on average. Also gender gaps in career length have dropped sharply, from 10.2 to 5.9 years between 2000 and 2023 in the OECD on average. Past fertility projections have been too optimistic. If fertility were to fall further, population ageing may be faster than currently projected, further undermining pension sustainability.

#Pensions at a Glance 2025 launched today.
🧵 with some key insights from this edition.
Full report now available here:
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Pathways into and out of temporary disability retirement: an 8-year sequence analysis study in Finland Abstract . Every year, a significant number of people in Finland retire on a disability pension. Half of them are granted a temporary disability pension. O

📑 To read more about the results, you can find the article in open access here: academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan... 3/3

A graph displaying the 9 clusters that were found in the analysis.

📊 Using sequence analysis and clustering, we find that relatively few return to work after the temporary disability pension: only around a fifth within four years after the start of the pension. The labour market status before the start strongly predicts chances of return to work 2/3

Screen shot of the abstract of the article: Every year, a significant number of people in Finland retire on a disability pension. Half of them are granted a temporary disability pension. Our study examines the different pathways into and out of temporary disability retirement and analyses how individual-level factors are associated with these pathways. We used comprehensive register data on Finns aged 30–58 who received a temporary disability pension in 2018 and followed them for 4 years before and after their pension claim. Sequence analysis in combination with clustering was used to identify typical patterns in and out of temporary disability pension. In addition, we examined the association between individual-level factors and the observed pathways. We identified nine distinct clusters with unique pathways. Two-thirds of the study population belonged to five clusters in which receipt of a disability pension continued for several years. The majority had been employed before receiving the pension. Only 18% belonged to a single cluster characterized by return to work, while persons in the remaining three clusters (20%) ended up in unemployment or unknown labour market states. The different pathways also differed by individual-level factors. We identified several different pathways into and out of temporary disability pensions. Most of them were characterized by long-term disability retirement rather than return to work. A better understanding of these pathways and associated individual factors is crucial to developing more effective strategies to facilitate return to work and prevent long-term disability.

📢 New article with @apolvinen.bsky.social and Riku Perhoniemi in the European Journal of Public Health! What happens to Finns who end up on a temporary disability pension, not only after the start of the pension but also before? 1/3

RC28 spring meeting deadline is December 1, 2025. Looking forward to seeing you in Seville. eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...

Suriname isn't there yet, but yeah, Dutch should be world cup's official language 😄

If you don’t have access to the chapter, there is also a discussion paper version: www.netspar.nl/wp-content/u....

Abstract: This chapter discusses the literature with respect to the role of employers in the retirement processes of older workers and provides suggestions for future research. The first part of the chapter reviews existing theoretical insights regarding the employers’ actions and attitudes toward older workers and retirement. The next section discusses empirical findings with regard to age-related stereotypes in the workplace and age norms with respect to retirement, and presents some results from an international comparative employer study. The chapter concludes with a section on the management of retirement processes, focusing on the exit and hiring of older workers.

Together with Kène Henkens and Harry van Dalen we updated the chapter on “Managing an older workforce and retirement: The employer’s perspective” for the forthcoming second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Retirement. academic.oup.com/edited-volum....

Kiitos #sosiaalipolitiikanpäivät2025! @sustageable.fi yhteistyönä @laursalo.bsky.social & @ajriekhoff.bsky.social vetivät työryhmää työmarkkinoiden uudesta sosiaalipolitiikasta. Kiinnostavia keskusteluja työmarkkinapoluista, työelämän inklusiivisuuden tarpeesta ja uusista työn muodoista.

Congrats, Andreas! 🤩

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.

#research #hiring

Very good summary of our @europeansocieties.bsky.social article by @ajriekhoff.bsky.social with @katikuitto.bsky.social & @lmpalomaki.bsky.social
Indeed, consequences of financial hardship turn out to be quite different for men and women 💁‍♀️🙍‍♂️

Retirement timing and changes in quality of life: a retrospective analysis of transition from employment to old-age retirement in Finland - European Journal of Ageing Retirement marks a significant life transition that is often accompanied by profound changes in perceived quality of life (QoL). The direction and magnitude of those changes depend on multiple factors...

The article in the European Journal of Ageing is published open access, you can read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 3/3

Our results show that those who had the lowest levels of quality of life were the first to retire and had the largest improvements in quality of life after retirement. Improvements in quality of life were mainly explained by increases in coping (“jaksaminen”) and satisfaction with leisure time 2/3

Previous research shows that retirement is often associated with changes in perceived quality of life. But does it matter WHEN you retire? And what drives those changes in the quality of life? In our new article with @lmpalomaki.bsky.social, Jyri Liukko & @sannatenhunen.bsky.social we find out 1/3

Our article with @terhia.bsky.social and Joonas Uotinen "(Un)happy Together—The Interrelated Life Satisfaction of Older Couples" published online in Social Indicators Research: rdcu.be/eBZin

A fine outcome of a discussion on a bus trip back from the first @sustageable.fi consortium meeting 😀

Publication alert 🚨
@katjamoe.bsky.social‬ @claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.

At the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference in Turku. This afternoon presenting our research on entrepreneurial entry of gig workers in Finland

Addressing financial hardship throughout the life course can improve pension adequacy - SustAgeable Our latest study shows that experiencing financial problems during the early and mid-life course does not necessarily bear negative consequences for one’s pension income in old age. However, a better ...

Experiencing financial problems during the early and mid-life course does not necessarily bear negative consequences for one’s pension income in old age,

writes researcher @ajriekhoff.bsky.social on the blog.

Read the full post:
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#pensions #financialhardship

Remember to send in your abstracts for our working group on "New social policies for changing labour markets" at the Finnish Social Policy Conference (October 23-24 in Helsinki). Deadline for submissions: September 1.

🎥 I had the pleasure of speaking with Sage Research Methods about open science, open-source knowledge production and the @cpfdata.bsky.social Comparative Panel File Open Harmonization Project.
Unfortunately (and surprisingly), the full interview is behind a paywall for now: lnkd.in/e4McXwa2

In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?

@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.

Now out in SER!

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Reversing ageism and extending working lives: the Finland model

Since the mid-90s Finland has taken big steps transition from a country of early retirement to one of later retirement.

This article reviews 30 years of key policy, legislative, and institutional changes that enabled Finland to confront deep-rooted ageism.

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🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social
Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce”
📌 €25,000/year + fees
📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed
📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025

👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab...

#PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

Hei työelämätutkija! 👋
Lähetä abstrakti meidän työryhmään Sosiaalipolitiikan päiville!

Hello fellow working life researcher! 👋
Send an abstract to our working group at the Social Policy Conference!

Dl 1.9. ❗️