Merita Mesiäislehto

SPA winners

Honoured to receive the best paper award of @jicsp.bsky.social together with Sanni Välimäki, @jlammit.bsky.social and Johanna Närvi. Thank you🙏🏻

And thank you for an inspiring conference in York @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social !

@flux-consortium.bsky.social

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Congratulations to the winners of the @universitypress.cambridge.org best article price for @jicsp.bsky.social at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference at #York2025:

Sanni Välimäki
@jlammit.bsky.social
@merita.bsky.social
Johanna Närvi

See the paper here: tinyurl.com/d3u5ny4t

Finland Is Falling Behind Other Nordic Countries in Employing People in Vulnerable Labour Market Positions Peppi Saikku & Merita MesiäislehtoActive labour market policy is often seen as a hallmark of the Nordic welfare model, and Finland has typically followed the example set by other Nordic countries in i...

When it comes to supporting people in vulnerable labour market positions, Finland has taken a stricter and more individual-responsibility-focused path than its Nordic neighbours, @merita.bsky.social and Peppi Saikku from @thlfi.bsky.social write in INVEST-blog.

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Suomi jää jälkeen muista Pohjoismaista heikossa työmarkkina-asemassa olevien työllistämisessä Peppi Saikku & Merita Mesiäislehto Aktiivinen työvoimapolitiikka nähdään vahvasti pohjoismaisena luomuksena ja Suomi on usein seurannut muiden Pohjoismaiden esimerkkiä sen kehittämisessä. Työvoimapalv...

"Suomi on perinteisesti seurannut muita Pohjoismaita aktiivisessa työvoimapolitiikassa, mutta nyt tämä linja on muuttumassa", @thlfi.bsky.social:n @merita.bsky.social & Peppi Saikku kirjoittavat INVEST-blogissamme.

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#osatyökykyiset #työllistyminen #työmarkkinat

‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid People with post-infectious diseases sometimes struggle to communicate the debilitating impact of their conditions. But a new technique can help them explain visually

"Fatigue,‘brain fog’ – these words don’t do justice to what people are actually experiencing.Fatigue sounds like tiredness, but it is in fact deep sickness"
Interesting read&impressive work by my sister Maaret Jokela-Pansini and her colleagues at Oxford University www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

W/ Angela Guarin, @miahako.bsky.social and Molly Costanzo. Read the article in Social Politics here academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

Our new article examines child support receipt among single mothers in extended families across 6 Latin American countries. We find that while these households provide crucial support, they may also reduce fathers' financial contributions—highlighting important gender&caregiving dynamics. ⬇️

Happy to have contributed a chapter to this new book that explores the intersections of gender, family & policy from a global perspective! Our chapter with @miahako.bsky.social and @millasalin.bsky.social discusses the gender and family policies in Finland and the impacts of COVID-19

New study📢
Our latest article explores growing inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) across Europe. Despite rising participation rates, disparities in access between educational groups have widened during the 2000s.

@flux-consortium.bsky.social

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My 6-year-old son's preschool class in our small town has been counting the books they have read since last autumn, and this week they got to 100! They invited the headmaster of the school to read the book nr 100 and then they had a party. Love the idea🤩

New paper out -- studying geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level (with Outi Sirniö and Juhani Saari):

doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Our comparative study on single mothers and child support receipt among extended families is now available in the LIS Working paper series! With Angela Guarin, Mia Hakovirta & Molly Costanzo. You can read the full paper here👉 www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-wp-webap...

Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood?

A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job

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Is the wine glass half full or half empty?