Research Seminars
The Finnish Centre for Pensions organizes research seminars, webinars and conferences in both Finnish and English. The seminars focus on most recent research on topics that are relevant for developing the pension system in Finland and abroad. The seminars seek to bring together researchers, policy makers and professionals from pension-related institutions to debate current issues of pensions and pension system development.
All seminars are open access and free. The link to webinars will be sent to all registered participants per email. The materials of the seminars will be sent to registered participants after the event.
ETK Pension Research Forum on 17 March 2025 – Open call for presentations
Are you doing research on pensions and retirement? We offer you a chance to present your work at the first ETK Pension Research Forum to a broad and international audience of pension experts, academics, stakeholders and policymakers.
We invite presentations of relevant finished or ongoing research on pensions, retirement, careers and population ageing. For this first online ETK Pension Research Forum we welcome especially, but not exclusively, studies on the effects of pension reforms on employment, retirement and income. Both single-country and comparative studies are considered.
Submit your full paper or an extended abstract via Webropol by 2 December 2024. We will get back to you by the end of December 2024.
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Research Webinar: Should people with long careers in demanding work be allowed to retire earlier?
As retirement ages are rising, concerns have been raised about the feasibility and social fairness of lengthening working lives of those who already have long careers of performing demanding work. In many countries, policymakers are looking for new ways to compensate for long working lives and arduous work through the pension system, mostly by offering possibilities for early retirement. Finland introduced a years-of-service pension in 2017 that offers such a possibility at age 63 to workers with more than 38 years of physically strenuous work and reduced health or work ability. In 2014, Germany temporarily lowered the retirement age for persons with 45 years of work.
This webinar discusses whether early retirement for long and arduous careers can be implemented in the pension system in a fair and efficient way, focusing on examples from Finland and Germany. Who are the workers who make use of such early retirement schemes and how physically demanding are their jobs? Are there alternatives to compensate for the arduousness of their work?
Presentations:
- Aart-Jan Riekhoff (Finnish Centre for Pensions): Arduous careers in times of longer working lives – The role of the years-of-service pension in Finland
- Johannes Geyer (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW): Early retirement for early starters – A well targeted policy for people with high job demand?
Discussant:
- Maciej Lis (OECD)
Moderator:
- Kati Kuitto (Finnish Centre for Pensions)
Register for the webinar in Webropol. After registration, you will receive a confirmation and a calendar invitation with the webinar’s Teams link to your e-mail.
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Previous seminars
2024
2023
- Working in retirement (20 November 2023)
- Will the 2023 pension reform really strengthen the sustainability of the Dutch pension system? (1 November 2023)
- Youth employment insecurity and pension adequacy (8 May 2023)
- Raising retirement ages – How pension reforms have affected employment and retirement in Finland and Estonia (27 March 2023)
2022
- Employer perspectives on working longer (14 November 2022)
- Labour market exit ages in the Nordic countries and Europe: Trends and inequalities (7 June 2022)
- Pension reforms and extending working lives: Lessons from Finland and the United Kingdom (10 May 2022)
- New perspectives of old-age poverty (14 March2022)
2021
- Mental health and work disability in the Nordic countries (8 November 2021)
- Pension adequacy and sustainability – An evaluation of the Finnish pension system (17 September 2021)
- Career destabilization – Myths, evidence and consequences for pension (13 September 2021)
- Inequalities in pensions and retirement – Life courses and pension systems in comparative perspective (10 May 2021)
- Extending working lives and healthy ageing – What role for flexible retirement? (19 April 2021)
2020
- Pension knowledge in Finland and Sweden (3 December 2020)
- Pension reforms, non-standard work and life course inequalities in the OECD (2 February 2020)
2019
- Pension Adequacy in Europe –Today and Tomorrow (17 September 2019)
- How pension reforms affect retirement and retirement intentions (11 June 2019)
- German pension reforms in a changing society (23 May 2019)
2018
- Flexible retirement – Do Pension Reforms Work in the Expected Direction? (5 September 2018)
- ETK Conference: Gender inequalities in employment and pensions (18 May 2018)
- Pension information and retirement behaviour (22 March 2018)
