Mustafa Firat

Life Courses and Retirement Adjustment Among Men and Women in the Netherlands - Mustafa Firat, Mark Visser, Kène Henkens, 2025 This study examines life courses and retirement adjustment in the Netherlands. Gender-split latent class analyses identify four distinct trajectories among men ...

📣New article out
💡This article suggests that how we live and work across our entire life course shapes how we experience retirement, emphasizing that it is the accumulation of resources over time, not just circumstances at retirement, that matters for later-life well-being.
doi.org/10.1177/0164...

Teachers’ multicultural beliefs or countries’ integration policies? Contextual influences on students’ multicultural learning and attitudes towards immigrants - Social Psychology of Education With societies experiencing growing cultural diversity through international mobility of people, there are concerns about negative attitudes towards immigrants. These concerns have prompted the import...

❤️Academia is not always rewarding, unless you make it rewarding by writing an article with the love of your life!

📣Our joint side project with my beautiful and smart wife, Bilge Gencoglu, is now out in Social Psychology of Education.

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What drives people to work in retirement? The role of work–family trajectories, finances, health, and welfare state generosity in bridge employment across Europe Abstract. Bridge employment—retirees performing paid work before permanently retiring—is becoming increasingly common. However, it remains unclear how brid

❓What drives people to work in retirement?
👉My latest PhD paper attempts to answer this question from a life course and cross-national perspective. The paper can be read open access at Work, Aging and Retirement.
doi.org/10.1093/work...

Very interesting study!

Congratulations on your promotion!

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I would love to be added 🙋🏻‍♂️

Social Psychology II by me!

I would love to be added!

📢 Call for Papers 📢

💡 @genoni.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social and I are organizing a Workshop on the Integration Paradox

📃 We aim to discuss critical, innovative work on the IP

⏰ When: 18 June 2025

✒️ How: See tinyurl.com/yj8d9233

📍 Where: @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Apply now!

Can I be added please?

Is it still possible to be added? I study intergroup relations, especially interested in intergroup contact, prejudice, discrimination, and bicultural identity.

Can I please be added to the list? I study work-family trajectories and retirement against the background of aging populations across Europe.

Can I please be added? I study the role of work-family trajectories in retirement processes.

My wife defended her PhD ❤️

👏🏻 Watching her dedication and brilliance in this journey has been an absolute privilege.

💐 Besides seeing her grow, I also learnt much from her while for my own PhD. I’ve always seen her as a model and followed her footsteps.

🙏 I’m grateful for everything she taught me.

Can I also be added?

Can I be added? I study the social psychology of migration, integration, and intergroup relations.

Can you please add me if still possible?

Great, thanks!

Hi Mark, thanks for the list. Still possible to be added? I would like to be added if possible.

Yes, please, if still possible to be added.

Congratulations!

📣 I'm thrilled to share that I've embarked on a new journey as a visiting researcher at @wzb.bsky.social!

💡 Over the coming months, I'll work on understanding the migrant-native gap in retirement income from a life course perspective, using SHARE data.

Stay tuned for more!

Good news:

The deadline for papers for the JCASP contact generalization special issue has been extended to June 1st!

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Good news! Our article received enough citations to be a #TopCitedArticle in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🥳

The paper can be accessed from here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨In a new paper, we look at how job resources over the course of career predict retirement timing among older workers in Europe
👇Access the paper for free for the findings
🙏This paper is part of a project funded by Instituut Gak and uses SHARE data
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I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in:
* MDPI journals
* Hindawi journals
* Frontiers journals

Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you.

Editors of said journals particularly welcome.

RT this. A lot.

Presentations by:
- @mustafafirat.bsky.social , Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes.
- Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.

Come join us next Thursday 👇

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨

We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ

Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.