5/5 Joint work with wonderful colleagues! @angelorenti.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social

4/5 This is particularly evident in Italy, where women still face structural barriers to entering and re-entering the labour market, more limited access to stable employment, and a higher likelihood of intermittent or precarious work, in a context where public childcare remains limited

3/5 Overall, the results suggest that ensuring the sustainability of pension systems in these two ageing countries requires more than pension reform alone, calling for addressing barriers to labour market participation and reducing fragmented career trajectories

2/5 Our findings reveal clear cross-country differences and persistent inequalities: in Italy, women spend strikingly longer periods in unemployment/inactivity, while in Finland educational inequalities is the main challenge

Educational disparities in work, retirement, and disability-pension expectancies: a cross-country analysis of Italy and Finland AbstractObjectives. We examined how gender and education shape the distribution of life years spent in full-year or mid-to-low intensity employment, unempl

📣 🆕 The accepted version of our paper is now out in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B!

We compare Italy and Finland and examine gender and educational differences in the time spent in employment, unemployment/inactivity, disability pension, and retirement

doi.org/10.1093/gero...

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👏 Congrats!

Thanks Marilia!!

Thanks Xu!!

Grazie Eugenio!

📣Excited to share that our paper on widowhood, its gender and educational inequalities, and evolution over time in Finland is out now in @readdemography.bsky.social !✨

📣 SSR is currently soliciting submissions for an upcoming special issue on AI and Inequality 🔥

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📆 deadline: Nov 17th

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🚨 Only 3 days left to submit your work to #ALPPOP2026!
🗓️ 18–21 January 2026, La Thuile (Aosta Valley) ⛰️
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@dondenacentre.bsky.social

Wow! Congratulations @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social 🥳

Out-of-Home Care for Children in Finland Has Doubled Since 1993! Scientists @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi analyzed how the risk of Finnish children being placed in out-of-home care has evolved. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ohc
‪A.Hiilamo, J.Pitkänen, @morettimarg.bsky.social P.Martikainen, M.Myrskylä

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📢 Call for papers is now open for the #ALPPOP2026 conference! ⛷️🏂❄️ @dondenacentre.bsky.social

🗓️ 18–21 January 2026, in La Thuile Aosta Valley ⛰️

Keynote speakers @marthajbailey.bsky.social and @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social

Send your abstracts by 21 September!

The understanding of widowhood evolution over time and distribution among population subgroups is crucial as widowhood burden can crucially shape societal structures and support systems

At the same time, the societal impact of widowhood, including the caregiving burden from the family and the state, may also decrease in response to this

Our study provide some positive results of a decreased and delayed risk of widowhood, suggesting that individuals may benefit from reduced exposure to widowhood and its associated health, social, and financial challenges

In terms of gender differences, women have higher widowhood risk, expectancy, and a lower mean age at widowhood than men. While in terms of educational differences, low-educated have lower mean age at widowhood for both genders and, for women, also higher risk and duration

We found that, over the past 30 years, individuals are less likely to experience widowhood compared to the past, and when they do, widowhood occurs at older ages. The widowhood expectancy (or average duration of widowhood) declined over time for women and remained stable for men

🆕New preprint of our study on widowhood!
"Evolution of widowhood lifespan and its gender and educational inequalities in Finland over three decades" osf.io/preprints/so... in @socarxiv.bsky.social
Joint work with K. Korhonen, @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social , @timriffe1.bsky.social and P. Martikainen

Thanks Xu, missing you all already!

🆕Excited to share that I am starting a new chapter as a postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University in Milan☀️
I joined the @dondenacentre.bsky.social to work on the FRAILIFE project!

I really enjoyed my time in Cagliari for #PopDays2025
It was great to attend so many interesting presentations and sessions 🤓📊 and to explore the location before and after the conference ☀️🏖️😎

#PopDays2025 in Cagliari really felt like home and we are already looking forward to seeing you all in Trento 2027!🍀

The Scientific Advisory Group meeting of LIFECON on 12-13.5.2025 was very international.
There are members from Germany, Norway, Switzerland and United States. Most of LIFECON researchers are Finnish but some come from Italy and India.

#Demography
See our researchers:
www.ttl.fi/en/vaestorak...

A group photo of the participants at REVES Conference in Tampere

The participants at #REVES2025 Conference in Tampere 🇫🇮!

REVES is the International Network on Health Expectancy.

Thanks for sharing!

Great to be at #REVES2025 in Tampere 🤓 This morning, I presented on the demography of widowhood in Finland, and we also had an overview of some @pophel.bsky.social works!
@reves-network.bsky.social