Aart-Jan Riekhoff

If you don’t have access to the chapter, there is also a discussion paper version: www.netspar.nl/wp-content/u....

Abstract: This chapter discusses the literature with respect to the role of employers in the retirement processes of older workers and provides suggestions for future research. The first part of the chapter reviews existing theoretical insights regarding the employers’ actions and attitudes toward older workers and retirement. The next section discusses empirical findings with regard to age-related stereotypes in the workplace and age norms with respect to retirement, and presents some results from an international comparative employer study. The chapter concludes with a section on the management of retirement processes, focusing on the exit and hiring of older workers.

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....

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.

Congrats, Andreas! 🤩

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

💫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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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

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 💁‍♀️🙍‍♂️

Retirement timing and changes in quality of life: a retrospective analysis of transition from employment to old-age retirement in Finland - European Journal of Ageing Retirement marks a significant life transition that is often accompanied by profound changes in perceived quality of life (QoL). The direction and magnitude of those changes depend on multiple factors...

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

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

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 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 😀

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.

At the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference in Turku. This afternoon presenting our research on entrepreneurial entry of gig workers in Finland

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 ...

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

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.

🎥 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

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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Reversing ageism and extending working lives: the Finland model

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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🚨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

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. ❗️

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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A description of the working group theme. Text can also be found by clicking on the link.

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!

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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📣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!

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...

🗞️ 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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YouTube video by Centre for Population Change Connecting Gens Exploring pension reforms and public pension adequacy - Traute Meyer, Paul Bridgen, Lisa Davison

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

Absolutely, done! 👍