Also happy to share that I have recently started my first job as a postdoc research associate jointly at LIS Cross-National Data Center and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
Today, I received an official letter that my doctoral degree has been confirmed. Special thanks to my supervisors Bernhard Ebbinghaus & Marek Naczyk for educating me throughout this journey, and to my examiners Michaela Kreyenfeld & Kenneth Nelson, also Bess Bukodi at milestone exams
Huge thanks to the organizers, @katjamoe.bsky.social@katikuitto.bsky.social@moritzhess.bsky.social !!
Soon will be there to host the Stream on Sustainability of pensions in ageing welfare states with @katikuitto.bsky.social@moritzhess.bsky.social#ESPAnet2024@ilmakunnasilari.bsky.social@kunlee.bsky.social@tbiegert.bsky.social@jeinhoff.bsky.social@crowold.bsky.social & others
Very pleased to receive _CHALLENGING INEQUALITY_ by Evelyne Huber & John Stephens! This is THE most important book on rising economic inequalities across post-industrial societies. Everyone studying inequality, the welfare state, social policy, labor unions, & parties should read it.
In our new OA research report, @apolvinen.bsky.social@susankuivalainen.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1093/work...
I conclude that pension reform discussions should put more emphasis on institutional contexts, for balancing the goal of activation and social equity.
In "Beveridgean" pension systems, female employment rates and poverty risks are more sensitive to changes in public pension spending, whereas in the "Bismarckian" regime, educational differences in the effects on male employment are particularly larger
By constructing and analyzing time-series cross-section data of 21 countries from 1998 to 2018, I show that long-term associations between employment rates of different socio-demographic groups and public pension spending per older person systematically vary across pension regimes.
The paper argues that the consequences of pension reforms vary depending on the institutional design of public pensions, such as whether public pensions focus on basic income protection (Beveridgean) versus status maintenance (Bismarckian)