Arie (Aart-Jan) Riekhoff - Finnish Centre for Pensions

Areas of research

Social inequalities in work and retirement
Careers and labour market mobility across the life course
Political economy of labour market and pension reforms

Presentation

My research focuses on the ways people transition from work to retirement. I am mainly interested in the role of individual characteristics and different life courses on the one hand, and the role of labour-market structures and policy context on the other. Apart from studying the Finnish situation, I am keen on doing comparative research. My academic background is in quantitative Sociology and Social Policy. I am particularly interested in using advanced and innovative methods to analyse longitudinal register and survey data.

Ongoing research projects

Fragmented work careers?
Health shocks, couples’ adjustment in the labour market and cumulative (dis)advantage
Income, Pensions, Poverty and Experiences (IPPE)
[Työnantajien näkemykset nousevasta vanhuuseläkeiästä ja ikääntyvästä henkilöstöstä]

Publications

Riekhoff, A.-J. & Kuitto, K. & Palomäki, L.-M. (2020) Substitution and spill-overs between early exit pathways in times of extending working lives in Europe. International Social Security Review 73 (2): 27–50.
Foulkes Savinetti, N. & Riekhoff, A.-J. (eds.) (2020) Shaping and re-shaping the boundaries of working life. Tampere University Press: Tampere.
Riekhoff, A.-J. & Järnefelt, N. & Laaksonen, M. (2020) Workforce composition and the risk of labor market exit among older workers in Finnish companies. Work, Aging and Retirement 6 (2): 88–100.
Riekhoff, A.-J. (2019) De-standardisation and differentiation of retirement trajectories in the context of extended working lives in the Netherlands. Economic and Industrial Democracy 40 (4): 890–912.
Riekhoff, A.-J. & Krutova, O. & Nätti, J. (2019) Working-hour trends in the Nordic countries: Convergence or divergence? Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 9 (3): 45–70.
Riekhoff, A.-J. & Krutova, O. & Nätti, J. (2019) The 24/7 economy and work during unsocial hours in Europe: Examining the influence of labor market dualization, regulation and collective bargaining. Economic and Industrial Democracy, ahead of print publication.
Riekhoff, A.-J. (2018) Retirement trajectories in the Netherlands and Finland. Institutional Change, Inequalities, de-standardisation and destabilisation. Finnish Centre for Pensions, Studies 05/2018: Helsinki.
Riekhoff, A.-J. & Järnefelt, N. (2018) Retirement trajectories and income redistribution through the pension system in Finland. Social Forces 97 (1): 27–54.
Riekhoff, A.-J. (2018) Institutional and socio-economic drivers of work-to-retirement trajectories in the Netherlands. Ageing & Society 38 (3): 568–593.
Riekhoff, A.-J. (2018) Extended working lives and late-career destabilisation: A longitudinal study of Finnish register data. Advances in Life Course Research 35: 114–125.
Riekhoff, A.-J. & Järnefelt, N. (2017) Gender differences in retirement in a welfare state with high female labour market participation and competing exit pathways. European Sociological Review 33 (6): 791–807.
Riekhoff, A.-J. (2017) The divergent logics of labour market reforms in times of permanent austerity. International Journal of Social Welfare 26 (1): 5–20.
Ilmakunnas, S. & Riekhoff, A.-J. (2016) Health and retirement. THL – Data Brief 2016/11.
Riekhoff, A.-J. (2015) Globalisaatio ja työmarkkinauudistukset Euroopassa: kompensaatio- ja tehokkuushypoteesit uudelleenarvioinnissa. Työelämän tutkimus 13 (3): 174–192.