Mustafa Firat
mustafafirat.bsky.social
Mustafa Firat
@mustafafirat.bsky.social
PhD in Sociology @Radboud University | MSc & MA in Psychology @University of Alberta & @Bogazici University | work-family | retirement | life course | welfare state | social inequality | migration | integration | intergroup relations
📣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...
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 ...
doi.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
❤️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.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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...
link.springer.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
❓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...
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
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Social Psychology II by me!
September 15, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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📢 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!
November 19, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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.
November 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
📣 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!
May 7, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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Good news:

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

Please redistribute/share

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
April 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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...
April 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM
🚨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
doi.org/10.1093/work...
April 11, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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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.
March 14, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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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.
January 18, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Come join us next Thursday 👇
Join us for the first 2024 webinar of the @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social webinar next Thursday (25 Jan.) at 4 pm CET (10 am EST). This workshop-style webinar focuses on Multidomain/Multichannel Sequence Analysis. See: sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/
January 18, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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🚨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.
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (f/m/x) / ID 242
The research units Skill Formation and Labor Markets (Director: Professor Heike Solga) and Health and Inequality (Head: Professor Jan Paul Heisig) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) are...
bit.ly
January 11, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Call-for-contribution for the next round of our webinar series "work-in-progress edition" targeting research projects using sequence analysis at their developmental stages! Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.8th, 2024. More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...
December 4, 2023 at 2:29 PM
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Launching Pensions at a Glance 2023 tomorrow! You can follow the launch and access the report from 11 am Paris time here:
www.oecd.org/els/public-p...
Launching the new 2023 Pensions at a Glance on Wednesday 13 December, 11 am Paris time!
More info and the possibility to follow the launch online via oe.cd/pag
December 12, 2023 at 5:21 PM
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At the EUI we have a #vacancy for a #postdoc, for 2.5 years, to study inequality in school careers in the Netherlands using register data. Maybe you know a researcher who would be interested in this position. #socsky

Deadline: 31/12/2023.

See for more:
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
December 11, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Personality and Social Psychology Review is seeking proposals for a special issue 📝 ow.ly/W83o50Qg0is
Submit a Proposal for Special Issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review | SPSP
ow.ly
December 7, 2023 at 7:21 AM
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Interesting paper by Mustafa Firat, @visser.bsky.social, and Gerbert Kraaykamp about work-family trajectories across Europe with SHARE data
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes
Work and family trajectories develop and interact over the life course in complex ways. Previous studies drew a fragmented picture of these trajectories and had limited scope. We provide the most comp...
www.frontiersin.org
December 4, 2023 at 9:35 PM
First post here, and for a good reason 🙏

📣1st paper from my PhD is out!

💡Using data from ~80,000 older adults (50+) from 28 EU countries, we looked at what happened in people’s lives at each age from 15 to 49.

❓What we found? Read the article for free doi.org/10.3389/fsoc...

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes
Work and family trajectories develop and interact over the life course in complex ways. Previous studies drew a fragmented picture of these trajectories and had limited scope. We provide the most comp...
doi.org
December 1, 2023 at 9:58 AM
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Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!!

Deadline for applications - December 10
Start date - September 1

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Call for Two PhD Candidates | Sciences Po Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales
www.sciencespo.fr
November 15, 2023 at 10:29 AM