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Finland: Pension reforms in Finland
(Edwar Elgar, 2022)This chapter provides a review of pension reforms in Finland which were implemented since the early 1990s. The Finnish pension system is rather unique, with a nearly universal coverage and a dominant role of the public ... -
Finland’s slow recovery from the financial crisis : A demographic explanation
Journal of the Economics of Ageing (Elsevier, 16.06.2017)This article uses the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) method to explore how demographic changes have impacted recent macroeconomic developments in Finland. NTA allows us to break down national income and consumption by ... -
From long-term sickness absence to disability retirement: diagnostic and occupational class differences within the working-age Finnish population
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 ... -
From plans to action? : Retirement thoughts, intentions and actual retirement: an eight-year follow-up in Finland
Ageing & Society (Cambridge University Press, 10.07.2020)This study applies Feldman and Beehr's three-step model to examine retirement as a decision-making process leading from retirement thoughts to retirement plans and from retirement plans to actual retirement. The results ... -
From social security to social investment? : Compensating and social investment welfare policies in a life-course perspective
Journal of European Social Policy : 5 (Sage, 21.11.2016)This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the forms and characteristics of social investment policies and their potential trade-off with social security schemes by assessing developments of welfare spending profiles ... -
Gender differences in old-age poverty in 14 EU countries : exploring the role of household structure
International Review of Economics (Springer, 17.04.2024)The risk of poverty among older people varies widely across countries and between men and women. This study of 14 European Union (EU) countries investigates the impact of household structure on gender differences in old-age ... -
Gender Differences in Retirement in a Welfare State with High Female Labour Market Participation and Competing Exit Pathways
European Sociological Review : 6 (Oxford University Press, 03.11.2017)In this article, we analyse whether and how, in the context of high female labour market participation and competing exit pathways, Finnish women’s retirement differs from men’s. We test for the influence of gendered life ... -
Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State
Social Sciences - Open Access Journal : 9 (MDPI, 01.09.2019)Parental leaves are, besides unemployment, the main reason for career breaks in early career. Despite the progress in recent decades towards more equal sharing of childcare between mothers and fathers, the labour market ... -
Gender inequalities in family leaves, employment and pensions in Finland
(Edwar Elgar, 13.12.2021)In this chapter, we discuss how family leave-related career breaks relate to gender inequalities in employment and pensions in Finland. While being considered as one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, the ... -
Good or bad (in)stability? : A cross-cohort study of the relation between career stability and earnings mobility in Finland
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (Elsevier, 10.01.2022)Although recent studies have found no signs of drastic destabilisation of employment and careers, it is possible that the returns of having a stable or unstable career have changed. This study looks at the link between ... -
Health as a predictor of early retirement before and after introduction of a flexible statutory pension age in Finland
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 ... -
Health shocks and couples’ labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory?
Social Science & Medicine (Elsevier, 22.03.2021)A health shock can have lasting consequences for the employment of not only the individuals experiencing it, but also their spouses. In this article, we complement the individual approach to the impact of health shocks ... -
Ikääntyvien työttömyys ja työttömyysputki
(Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, 26.03.2019)Tämän katsauksen tavoitteena on antaa ajankohtainen kuva työttömyysputken vaikutuksesta ikääntyvien työttömyyteen ja työllisyyteen. Aluksi esitellään työttömyysputken rakenne. Erityistä huomiota kiinnitetään putken ... -
Impact of a Finnish reform adding new sickness absence checkpoints on rehabilitation and labor market outcomes: an interrupted time series analysis
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
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
Scandinavian journal of work environment and health : 1 (Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health NOROSH, 05.01.2021) -
Independent policy learning: Contextual diffusion of active labour market policies
(Palgrave Macmillan, 03 / 2018)This chapter analyses in which ways diffusion based on interdependent policy learning explains the spread of active labour market policies (ALMP) in the OECD countries. By applying error correction models using multiplicative ... -
Individual- and company-level predictors of receiving vocational rehabilitation: a multilevel study of Finnish private sector workplaces
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 ... -
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a lifecourse perspective: An introduction
Social Policy & Administration : 3 (Wiley, 16.04.2021) -
Information and legitimacy : results from an experimental survey on attitudes to the 2017 pension reform in Finland
Journal of Pension Economics & Finance (Cambridge University Press, 14.01.2021)The legitimacy of a pension system or any social security program depends on its credibility and perceived fairness. In order to gauge this legitimacy, we need to understand the relation between people's knowledge and ...