Aart-Jan Riekhoff
Senior researcher at the Finnish Centre for Pensions (ETK), focusing on retirement and pensions in the context of life courses, social inequalities, and changing labour markets | etk.fi/en/contactinformati…
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff"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 👉 www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffHae Eläketurvakeskuksen pro gradu -palkintoa! Palkitsemme ansiokkaan eläkeaiheisen opinnäytteen vuodelta 2025. Palkinnon arvo 2 000 on euroa. etk.fi/ajankohtaista/pro-g… #gradu #palkinto #eläke
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff#Pensions at a Glance 2025 launched today. 🧵 with some key insights from this edition. Full report now available here: www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 1/4
- 📢 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
- 📊 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
- 📑 To read more about the results, you can find the article in open access here: academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan... 3/3
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffRC28 spring meeting deadline is December 1, 2025. Looking forward to seeing you in Seville. eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
- 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....
- If you don’t have access to the chapter, there is also a discussion paper version: www.netspar.nl/wp-content/u....
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffKiitos #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.
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff💫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... 🧵👇
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffCome 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
- We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffVery 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 💁♀️🙍♂️
- 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: www.sustageable.fi/tulokset/add... #pensions #financialhardship
- 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 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
- 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
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffOur 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 😀
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffPublication 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.
- New paper: @katjamoe.bsky.social, @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social study the motherhood penalty in net wealth and public pension wealth in Germany www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- At the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference in Turku. This afternoon presenting our research on entrepreneurial entry of gig workers in Finland
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffExperiencing 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: www.sustageable.fi/tulokset/add... #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.
- With @laursalo.bsky.social we're organising a working group at the Finnish social policy days. Make sure to send an abstract (FI/EN) if you're doing research on change in labour markets, underlying causes, consequences, or policies to address inequalities! DL: 1.9 www.helsinki.fi/fi/konferens...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff🎥 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
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffIn 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! 🧵
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffSince 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. urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-f...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff🚨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
- 🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨 Apply or circulate: A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries" Deadline: July 21 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffHei 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. ❗️
- With @laursalo.bsky.social we're organising a working group at the Finnish social policy days. Make sure to send an abstract (FI/EN) if you're doing research on change in labour markets, underlying causes, consequences, or policies to address inequalities! DL: 1.9 www.helsinki.fi/fi/konferens...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffWhat do Europeans think about their public-private pension income mix? In our (@karendublin.bsky.social and Juan J Fernandez) new study in the Journal of European Social Policy, we analyse pension attitudes across 6 countries based on a novel survey: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
- With @laursalo.bsky.social we're organising a working group at the Finnish social policy days. Make sure to send an abstract (FI/EN) if you're doing research on change in labour markets, underlying causes, consequences, or policies to address inequalities! DL: 1.9 www.helsinki.fi/fi/konferens...
- Not often that there is an official mythbuster to give a keynote at a sociology conference
- Heading out east to Lappeenranta to join the ESA RN21 mid-term conference. It so far from home that it's almost like going abroad 😅 Tomorrow I will be talking about doing research on age and ageing with register data and present new work on gig work and entrepreneurial entry. Looking forward!
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffAcademic studies consistently show that access to citizenship has positive effects. Immigrants who become citizens experience lower unemployment, earn higher income, less likely to be overqualified for jobs & experience stronger sense of belonging eg @gathmannch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions tinyurl.com/2wez4wp7 Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻 When? November 20-21 November 🍂 For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨 Please circulate!
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffInterested in doing a PhD on social inequalities in retirement transitions? Then join our team at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany 😀 We offer great research conditions and a thriving research environment: www.bib.bund.de/EN/Institute...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff🗞️ Hot off the (last month’s) press: Happy to finally share that the paper with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social on family life course predictors of wealth has been published in @demresjournal.bsky.social ! See the whole article (open access 🫶) here: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... Little 🧵
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffCheck out this Centre for Population Change webinar on pension reforms & public pension adequacy. Our Emerging Researchers in Ageing Chair, Dr Lisa Davison, presents on their work with colleagues from Southampton using Luxembourg Income Study data. @cpc-cg.bsky.social @lisadavisonphd.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff❓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...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffWe are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffPrivate savings for retirement have increased significantly over the past decade. According to a comprehensive survey, especially young people save for retirement. www.etk.fi/en/topical-i... #pension #research #economy
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffWorking paper alert! I use variance decomposition techniques to see how much Finnish wage inequality, and its change over time, is explained by within-firm vs between-firm (and between-industry) differences in compensations (link: labore.fi/julkaisu/dri...)
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffIn diesem Beitrag des sozialpolitikblog fassen Kati Kuitto und Dirk Hofäcker die Ergebnisse aus einem Forschungsprojekt zu den langfristigen Auswirkungen von Arbeitsmarktunsicherheiten auf das Sparverhalten und die Rentenansprüche junger Menschen zusammen: 👉🏼 difis.org/blog/?blog=159
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffCall for papers for ESPAnet #socialpolicy conference in Milan open until 24/4. We are chairing again a stream on #poverty and #inequality together with @zparolin.bsky.social @danieledmiston.bsky.social and @sbeduk.bsky.social. ✉️🖨️ www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffWe're hiring! Vacancies for 3 permanent research positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level at NIDI (The Hague), in the field of labor market studies, inequality, and human geography/spatial studies. #Sociology #Demography #SocialSciences #Economics nidi.nl/en/about-us/...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff“Declining Fertility, Human Capital & Economic Sustainability”: M Myrskyla @angelorenti.bsky.social @htikkanen.bsky.social et al show how fertility & investment in education affect pension burden. @flux-consortium.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffNew paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈 Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants. with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0197...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffThe average monthly pension in Finland in 2024 was €2,100: €2,349 for men and €1,893 for women. www.etk.fi/en/topical-i... New #statistics 📈 #pension #economy #socialsecurity #Finland
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffMy new policy brief about mental health disorders and childlessness
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffToday is the day! The first-ever ETK Pension Research Forum -webinar starts at 13 CET! If you haven't registered yet, do it now, and check our programme: www.etk.fi/en/topical-i... Warmly welcome on behalf of the organizing team! 💙 #ETKResearch #ETKPensionResearchForum #pensions #PensionReforms
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffNew article published, first one of PhD-candidate Anika Chowdhury who has done impressive analyses on Dutch register data looking at retirement pathways, available open access www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffNew publication with @aleksikarhula.bsky.social! ”Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low-Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods” #segregation #segregaatio #lähiöt onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffOur new #research examines how changes in individuals’ resources (health, financial, time) are associated with #volunteering among older Europeans. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/gero... @invest-flagship.bsky.social @netresilience.bsky.social @geronsociety.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffNew paper with Kamila Cygan-Rehm (@tudresden.bsky.social) and Regina T. Riphahn (@fauwiso.bsky.social) out now in Socio-Economic Review (@sasemeeting.bsky.social)! We investigate how Minijobs (subisidized small jobs) affect motherhood penalties in the long run 1/13
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffThe MaxHel center is looking for two postdocs who will be based at our Helsinki site. Join an international team working with exciting data in a fantastic city. Full details here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff"Leveraging an Australian reform that raised the pension eligibility age by seven years, we show that the reform significantly increased the likelihood of grandmothers delaying retirement ... we observe a decline in fertility rates among their daughters" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- 👇 Only few days left for sending abstracts!
- 📣 Check out this exciting conference held in Finnish Lappeenranta in June. Including a keynote speech by yours truly 🤓 Together with Jolanta Perek-Bialas I will be talking about age and ageing in survey and register-based research. DL for abstracts: Feb 28. www.lut.fi/en/RN21-conf...
- Great office space when your kids have holidays and you do not 😅
- Join us on March 17 for the first ever ETK #Pension #Research Forum! A webinar with presentations by @oysteinhernaes.bsky.social, Ozan Yanar, Thorsten Heien and Camilla Marabini, and comments by Tuulia Hakola-Uusitalo and Traute Meyer. For more info and registration: www.etk.fi/en/topical-i...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff(Big) Pub day! What was once a replication project for my first-year PhD stats class turned into a different beast. Read on for some thoughts on intergenerational mobility along axes of occupational characteristics. (Coauthors @xisong.bsky.social and Yu Xie) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffComing up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers! Submit your paper by 30 March! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/ Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
- 📣 Check out this exciting conference held in Finnish Lappeenranta in June. Including a keynote speech by yours truly 🤓 Together with Jolanta Perek-Bialas I will be talking about age and ageing in survey and register-based research. DL for abstracts: Feb 28. www.lut.fi/en/RN21-conf...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffHow and why did the impact of widowhood on depressive symptoms vary across Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic? Take a look at our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social!
- In “Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic & Depressive Symptoms Following Widowhood,” a widowhood penalty applied only to those who lost their spouse during periods of stringent restrictions. @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff1/ 🚸 *Does grandparental involvement boost school grades?* Our new study (with @valeriabordone.bsky.social) explores whether grandchild care, financial support or contact impact grandchildren's school performance. Let's unpack the findings🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffGreat news! The abstract deadline has been extended until 12.2. Still time to draft your abstract!
- Mainly for Finnish sociologists, but if someone wants to come to Turku from abroad, they're more then welcome! I'm hosting a working group with @laursalo.bsky.social at the Finnish Sociology Days on March 20-21. Deadline for abstracts January 31. More info here: sosiologipaivat.fi/sosiologipai...
- Remember to submit your abstracts by Friday!
- Mainly for Finnish sociologists, but if someone wants to come to Turku from abroad, they're more then welcome! I'm hosting a working group with @laursalo.bsky.social at the Finnish Sociology Days on March 20-21. Deadline for abstracts January 31. More info here: sosiologipaivat.fi/sosiologipai...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffOur article on earnings development of new immigrants (with Shadia Rask) is available open access in European Sociological Review: doi.org/10.1093/esr/... Part of @sustageable.bsky.social project.
- Our SustAgeable project is now on Bluesky: @sustageable.bsky.social. Check it out and follow for groundbreaking research on economic and social sustainability in an ageing society www.sustageable.fi/en/
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffDoes #EconSky need another child penalty paper? Professor Eva Österbacka's and my contribution to this topic in the European Journal of Population We compare earnings of mother's to their peers when they return to workplace by duration of childcare leave
- Reposted by Aart-Jan RiekhoffI am looking for a doctoral student or someone close to finishing their Master's degree for a two year contract. The project focuses on socioeconomic segregation and uses register data. Excellent opportunity to start a phd in a top class phd program! Details here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
- Reposted by Aart-Jan Riekhoff"Recent Fertility Declines – What Can We Learn from Register-based Research?" Online Webinar, January 23, 2–4 pm CET. You can find the program and sign up here: eaps.nl/page/registe... @eaps.bsky.social @flux-consortium.bsky.social
