Artikkelit - Selaus tekijän mukaan "Laaksonen, Mikko"
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Body weight and premature retirement : population-based evidence from Finland
Viinikainen, Jutta; Tikka, Santtu; Laaksonen, Mikko; Jääskeläinen, Tuija; Böckerman, Petri; Karvanen, Juha
European Journal of Public Health : 4 (Oxford University Press, 19.07.2021)Background Health status is a principal determinant of labour market participation. In this study, we examined whether excess weight is associated with withdrawal from the labour market owing to premature retirement. ... -
Changes in healthy and unhealthy working life expectancies among older working-age people in Finland, 2000–2017
Laaksonen, Mikko; Elovainio, Marko; Kainulainen, Sakari; Leinonen, Taina; Jääskeläinen, Tuija; Rissanen, Harri; Koskinen, Seppo
European Journal of Public Health : 5 (Oxford university press, 07.10.2022)Background Raising the statutory retirement age has been a common policy response to population ageing, but health problems may restrict labour force participation in older ages. We examined the development of healthy and ... -
Changes in Unemployment Affect Sickness Absence and Disability Retirement Rates: A Municipality-Level Panel Study
Blomgren, Jenni; Laaksonen, Mikko; Perhoniemi, Riku
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health : 12 (MDPI, 11.06.2021)To enhance understanding of the interplay between unemployment and sickness absence and disability retirement, the aim of this study was to examine how changes in area-level unemployment rates are associated with changes ... -
Childhood determinants for early psychiatric disability pension: A 10-year follow-up study of the 1987 Finnish Birth Cohort
Merikukka, Marko; Ristikari, Tiina; Tuulio-Henriksson, Annamari; Gissler, Mika; Laaksonen, Mikko
International Journal of Social Psychiatry : 8 (Sage, 03.11.2018)Background: Mental disorders can affect work ability and lead to early exit from the labour market through disability pension. Aims: This study aimed to identify childhood determinants of psychiatric disability pension ... -
Company-level determinants of disability retirement : a multilevel study of Finnish private sector workplaces
Laaksonen, Mikko; Rantala, Juha; Liukko, Jyri; Polvinen, Anu; Varis, Jarno; Kesälä, Meeri; Kuivalainen, Susan
European Journal of Public Health (Oxford University Press, 23.04.2019)Background We examined whether the risk for disability retirement varies between companies over and above the individual-level characteristics of their employees and which company-level characteristics are associated with ... -
Consumption of psychotropic drugs among disability pension applicants with mental disorders: comparing awarded and rejected applicants in Finland
Perhoniemi, Riku; Tuulio-Henriksson, Annamari; Blomgren, Jenni; Laaksonen, Mikko
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Springer, 14.03.2020)Purpose Psychotropic drug consumption as a proxy measure of mental health problems during a disability pension process has only been studied among awarded applicants. This study examined psychotropic drug purchase ... -
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees
Polvinen, Anu; Laaksonen, Mikko
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (Sage, 22.02.2023)Retirement on a disability pension is more common in the public than the private sector. Our study examined the differences in retirement on a disability pension in the public sector compared to the private sector. The ... -
Determinants of disability pension applications and awarded disability pensions in Finland, 2009 and 2014
Perhoniemi, Riku; Blomgren, Jenni; Laaksonen, Mikko
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (Sage, 02.05.2019)Aims: Examining the non-medical determinants of applying for and being awarded disability pension is important for assessing the functionality of the disability pension system. We examined how demographic and socioeconomic ... -
Determinants of transition from partial to full disability pension: a register study from Finland
Polvinen, Anu; Laaksonen, Mikko
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (Sage, 31.05.2021)Aims: This study explored the rate of transition from partial to full disability pension (DP) and aimed to determine whether age, sex, education, employment status, employment sector, pension type and medical cause of ... -
Do individual and work-related factors differentiate work participation trajectories before and after vocational rehabilitation?
Leinonen, Taina; Solovieva, Svetlana; Husgafvel-Pursiainen, Kirsti; Laaksonen, Mikko; Viikari-Juntura, Eira
Plos One : 2 (Public Library of Science, 21.02.2019)Background Understanding diverse labor market trajectories around vocational rehabilitation provides important insight into potential effectiveness of rehabilitation efforts. We examined factors associated with work ... -
Educational differences in years of working life lost due to disability retirement
Laaksonen, Mikko; Rantala, Juha; Järnefelt, Noora; Kannisto, Jari
European Journal of Public Health : 2 (Oxford University Press, 22.12.2017)Background To assess the contribution of disability retirement on lost working years, we calculated the length of time spent on disability pension in various diagnostic groups by the level of education over the past 10 ... -
Explanations for economic difficulties among old-age pensioners previously on disability pension
Polvinen, Anu; Laaksonen, Mikko; Rantala, Juha; Palomäki, Liisa-Maria; Kuivalainen, Susan
European Journal of Public Health (Oxford University Press, 31.12.2019)Background This study looks at how previous disability retirement is associated with economic difficulties in covering the costs of everyday basic necessities in old age, and the extent to which the differences in economic ... -
From long-term sickness absence to disability retirement: diagnostic and occupational class differences within the working-age Finnish population
Salonen, Laura; Blomgren, Jenni; Laaksonen, Mikko
BMC Public Health : 1078 (Springer, 08.07.2020)Background It is well documented that sickness absence is strongly associated with disability retirement. A long-term sickness absence (LTSA) in particular increases the risk of disability retirement, but little is known ... -
Health as a predictor of early retirement before and after introduction of a flexible statutory pension age in Finland
Leinonen, Taina; Laaksonen, Mikko; Chandola, Tarani; Martikainen, Pekka
Social Science & Medicine (Elsevier, 24.04.2016)Background Little is known of how pension reforms affect the retirement decisions of people with different health statuses, although this is crucial for the understanding of the broader societal impact of pension policies ... -
Impact of a Finnish reform adding new sickness absence checkpoints on rehabilitation and labor market outcomes: an interrupted time series analysis
Laaksonen, Mikko; Blomgren, Jenni; Rinne, Hanna; Perhoniemi, Riku
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health (NOROSH, 01.10.2023)Objectives In 2012, new checkpoints were introduced in the Finnish sickness absence system to improve early detection of long-term work disability and hasten return to work after illness. We examined whether the reform ... -
Incentives, Health, and Retirement: Evidence from a Finnish Pension Reform
Ollonqvist, Joonas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Laaksonen, Mikko; Martikainen, Pekka; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarkiainen, Lasse
VATT Working Papers (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 05.07.2021)We analyse the effects of changes in retirement incentives on retirement behaviour, and in particular whether individuals' health status modifes the effects of retirement incentives. We study these issues in the context ... -
Increasing labor force participation in older age requires investments in work ability
Laaksonen, Mikko
Scandinavian journal of work environment and health : 1 (Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health NOROSH, 05.01.2021) -
Individual- and company-level predictors of receiving vocational rehabilitation: a multilevel study of Finnish private sector workplaces
Laaksonen, Mikko; Liukko, Jyri; Varis, Jarno; Kesälä, Meeri; Kuivalainen, Susan; Polvinen, Anu; Rantala, Juha
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (Springer, 18.12.2019)Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the magnitude of company-level variation in vocational rehabilitation (VR) and to determine which individual- and company-level characteristics are associated with receiving ... -
Labor market position after a rejection of a disability pension application: a register-based cohort study
Laaksonen, Mikko; Gould, Raija; Liukko, Jyri
Disability and Rehabilitation : 25 (Taylor & Francis, 17.08.2017)Purpose: To study labor market positions of rejected disability pension applicants and to examine which characteristics predict ending up in these positions after the rejection. Methods: Nationwide Finnish register data ... -
Labour shortages and employer preferences in retaining and recruiting older workers
Riekhoff, Aart-Jan; Järnefelt, Noora; Laaksonen, Mikko; Liukko, Jyri
International Journal of Manpower (Emerald, 29.11.2023)Purpose – This article investigates whether employers are more likely to employ older workers when faced with a shortage of qualified labour. Furthermore, it analyses whether in such cases age stereotypes moderate employers’ ...