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Aart-Jan Riekhoff
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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 | https://www.etk.fi/en/contactinformation/arie-aart-jan-riekhoff/
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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....
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....
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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💫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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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
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September 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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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 💁‍♀️🙍‍♂️
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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
August 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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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 😀
(Un)happy Together—The Interrelated Life Satisfaction of Older Couples
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August 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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.
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...
August 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
At the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference in Turku. This afternoon presenting our research on entrepreneurial entry of gig workers in Finland
August 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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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
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 ...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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...
August 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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🎥 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
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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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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June 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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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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Reversing ageism and extending working lives: the Finland model
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June 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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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. ❗️
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...
June 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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What 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....
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June 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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...
June 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Not often that there is an official mythbuster to give a keynote at a sociology conference
June 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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!
June 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Academic 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

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May 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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📣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!
May 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Interested 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...
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May 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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🗞️ 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...

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Demographic Research - Uncovering what matters: Family life-course aspects and personal wealth in late working age (Volume 52 - Article 22 | Pages 689–740)
Volume 52 - Article 22 | Pages 689–740
www.demographic-research.org
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Check 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
Exploring pension reforms and public pension adequacy - Traute Meyer, Paul Bridgen, Lisa Davison
YouTube video by Centre for Population Change Connecting Gens
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May 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM