PhD vacancy at Tilburg University ! Together with Mine Kühn and Jeroen Vermunt, we are looking for a talented PhD candidate for the project ‘The Changing Landscape of Women’s Retirement: Physical and Mental Health Consequences of Working Longer’. Apply bf 26.06: tiu.nu/22309

Educational expansion has improved labour force participation of over-55-year-olds in the 2000s. New research article reveals that, in Finland, the education level of women has risen to top EU levels. etk.fi/en/topical-iss… #research #workinglives #careers

The deadline for the early bird fee for #ESPAnet2024 is approaching. Go to the website events.tuni.fi/espanet2024/re… and register before 19.6 to get the discounted fee.

We are hiring a Postdoc in Comparative Political Economy of Labour Market Risks and Welfare State Transformations Universiteit Leiden. Part of TransEuroWorkS. Research on structural #labourmarket transformations: #greentransition, #digitalisation, and #migration universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

The program of ESPAnet2024 is available events.tuni.fi/espanet2024/pr… check it out and make sure to register by tomorrow and upload your full paper by the deadline.

#Multipillarization of pensions has been a trend in Europe but Finland has gone in another direction FIN essentially had a two-tier statutory system: national pension and earnings-related pension A basic flat-rate national #pension was paid to all citizens until early 90s 🧵

We will honour one of our first PI's, professor emeritus Olli E. Kangas at ESPAnet2024 on Wednesday 28.8. 🫡 In Tampere University Main Auditorium at 9 starts "INVEST pre-conference in honour of social policy scholar Olli Kangas". Event is open for all. Welcome! 👉events.tuni.fi/espanet2024/pr…

On Friday 30/8 on ESPAnet2024 stage there will be a panel discussion titled Making it last? How to reinvent the welfare state in times of multiple crises w Christian Albrekt Bernhard Ebbinghaus Tuuli Hirvilammi Anna Kurowska and Maria Vaalavuo instagram.com/p/C-r-i4sNdrc/…

My travel to ESPAnet will be the easiest ever: I'm just hopping on my bike on Wednesday morning 😁 Hope to see many of you in Tampere this week!

Also on my way to Tampere to host the Stream on Sustainability of pensions in ageing welfare states with Kati Kuitto and mrhess With papers by: Jyri Liukko Ilari Ilmakunnas Espen Steinung Dahl @jimeneacas Kun Lee (@kunlee.bsky.social) Bernhard Ebbinghaus Thomas Biegert Marge Unt Jan Einhoff Carla Rowold & others

And we have lift-off! Minna van Gerven @minnavangerven.bsky.social Mia Tammelin

Don't forget the open stream at #ESPAnet2024 ! Wrongly perceived by some as a rest bin of presentations, it actually has super-good papers. After great discussion today, we continue tomorrow morning. Check out these names and titles:

Now starting at #ESPAnet2024, our top-level panel discusses what is #sustainability and how to make welfare states more sustainable

ESPAnet2024 was a success, thanks to all participants. Safe trip back home and see you all in #ESPAnet2025 in #Milan 27-29 August 2025. Matteo Jessoula and his team will make an another incredible event and we can’t wait for more social policy and fun.

Does financial hardship have consequences for income all the way into retirement? Perhaps not in the way you'd expect!🧐Check out the pre-print of our new article that was accepted for publication in European Societies 👇