Fjalar Finnäs
Biographic Data
| ID | 97523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fjalar Finnäs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fjalar |
| FAMILY NAME | Finnäs |
| SIGNATURE | FINNÄS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ethno-Linguistic Exogamy and Divorce
This research examines whether the exogamy effect on the divorce risk varies over marital duration. Registry data from 1970 to 2003 allow us to observe couples in exogamous and endogamous ethno-linguistic marriages (Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers in Finland). We find that an elevated divorce risk of exogamous couples, which has been observed in numerous studies, is not typical of recently initiated marriages only, because it does not atten…
Divorce and parity progression following the death of a child
Most studies that have examined whether a child's death influences parental relationship stability have used small-scale data sets and their results are inconclusive. A likely reason is that child loss affects not only the risk of parental separation, but also the risk of having another child. Hence parity progression and separation must be treated as two competing events in relation to child loss. The analysis in this paper used Finnish register…
The Ethno-linguistic Community and Premature Death
Transitions Within and From First Unions
In this article, we study how different transitional phases from childless cohabitation relate to education and educational resemblance of the partners. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we extend analyses of previous research to suit the conditions in societies where almost all unions begin before marriage and much childbearing takes place outside marriage. Educationally heterogamous couples are found to have higher separ…
Sex composition of children, parental separation, and parity progression
Previous studies that have studied parental gender preferences for children have analysed either divorce or parity progression. We use Finnish register data that make it possible to study both events simultaneously by following the same couples with childr
Transitions within and from ethno-linguistically mixed and endogamous first unions in Finland
Utilizing longitudinal population register data from Finland, this study examines the influence of exogamy on transitions within and from first unions. The aim is to assess how ethno-linguistically mixed unions, consisting of Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers, differ from endogamous unions with respect to various transitions in the family formation process subsequent to entry into childless cohabitation. We find evidence of notable selection.…
The International Family Migration of Swedish-Speaking Finns
Using population register data from Finland, we study international family migration in the context of moves between two highly developed and gender-equal countries. The focus is on the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, a group with high international migration rates and good labour market prospects in the primary host country, Sweden. The influence of spousal education on emigration and return migration risks is of specific interest. We fi…
Ethnic Affiliation of Children and the Risk of Union Dissolution
This paper illustrates that the ethnic affiliation of the first-born child can be used to deepen our understanding of ethnic heterogamy effects on unions' dissolution risk. We use longitudinal population register data from Finland that cover the period 1971-2003, consisting of almost 65,000 unions, whereof the number of ethnically mixed unions is 11,365. Those in which a greater proportion of the parents are likely to have made a more deliberate …
Family Formation and Offspring Mortality in Sweden
Using multigenerational population register data that cover the total Swedish population, we studied relative mortality of offspring whose parents had formed a new family with children. These primarily adult-age children are found to have lower death risks than those with divorced parents who did not form a new family, which highlights that the link between parental family formation and offspring health may be attributed not only to causal factor…
Long-term Mortality of War Cohorts
Family origin and mortality
Parental birth area is the driving force behind the regional mortality difference in Finland. The findings highlight and give further support for the potentially important role of genetic risk factors in mortality. Close monitoring of persons' geographic and ethnic ancestry may promote public health and avoid many early deaths
Mortality Variation by Birth Region and Ethnicity
Previous research has shown that the persistent regional mortality differences in Finland cannot be attributed to sociodemographic factors, health behaviors, or living conditions at young age. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we analyze the effect of birth region and ethnicity on mortality risks in men age 65-74 years and women age 75-84 years. Mortality from ischemic heart disease in particular is found to be highly infl…
Geographic Ancestry and Cause-specific Mortality in a National Population
Forced migration and mortality in the very long term
In this article, we analyze mortality rates of Finns born in areas that were ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II and from which the entire population was evacuated. These internally displaced persons are observed during the period 1971-2004 and compared with people born in the same region but on the adjacent side of the new border. We find that in the 1970s and 1980s, the forced migrants had mortality rates that were on par with those of…
Cross-country Employment Propensity of Finnish Migrants
This paper explores how individual employment propensity interrelates across countries and time, using data that link population registers from Sweden and Finland. Migrants are observed before emigration, after emigration, and in a follow-up in cases both where they were still living in the host country and if they had return migrated. The interrelation is found to be strong, suggesting that migrants’ employment problems need not necessarily be d…
The effect of social capital on health
Cause-specific mortality at young ages
Language and demography
In this article a sociolinguistic as well as a demographic perspective is used in order to present the historical background of the Swedish language in Finland and of the users of this language. The first part describes the evolution of the Swedish language as it developed into a complete language, serving the needs of the Finnish society. This description primarily deals with issues at the macro level, whereas social and dialectal variations at …
Adjustment failures in an immigrant population
Mortality inequality in two native population groups
A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of variation in health-related characteristics, are rel…
Choosing for the Children
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Ethnicity and Unemployment in Finland
This research note provides the general findings from a research project analyzing the reasons behind the lower unemployment rate of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, compared with the Finnish-speaking majority. The main conclusion is that the unemployment gap cannot be attributed to ethnic-group differences in age, education, place of residence, or industrial structure. We believe that two latent factors are highly relevant in this conte…
Language-group Differences in Very Early Retirement in Finland
The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison between the two language groups in Finland. Extensive longitudinal data are analysed with the help of random effects probit models
Education, Social Integration and Minority-majority Group Intermarriage
This article challenges the well-established finding that persons with higher levels of education are more likely to marry outside their own ethnic group. The empirical research upon which that finding is based has been dominated by studies of groups of either immigrant or low socio-economic status. We revisit the question by examining census of population data on two minorities - Protestants in the Republic of Ireland and the Swedish-speaking Fi…
Social Integration, Heterogeneity, and Divorce
The study compared marital stability in Finland with focus on the two language groups. The divorce rate was remarkably lower among the Swedish-speaking minority than among the Finnish-speaking majority. An explanation for this may be differences in social integration. The assumption about the effect of social integration was also supported by covariates measuring urbanization and individual migration. A hypothesis that marital homogamy reduces th…
Social Integration, Heterogeneity, and Divorce
The study compared marital stability in Finland with focus on the two language groups. The divorce rate was remarkably lower among the Swedish-speaking minority than among the Finnish-speaking majority. An explanation for this may be differences in social integration. The assumption about the effect of social integration was also supported by covariates measuring urbanization and individual migration. A hypothesis that marital homogamy reduces th…
The effect of social capital on health
Entry into Consensual Unions and Marriages Among Finnish Women Born Between 1938 and 1967
This study, based on a survey undertaken in 1989, clearly illustrates the dramatic changes in family formation behaviour that have occurred in Finland. Whereas only about one-tenth of the first unions of women born between 1938 and 1942 began as consensual unions, after the cohort of 1962 only one-tenth were formal marriages. These changes lagged some ten years behind the corresponding ones in Sweden, but were about five years ahead of Norway. In…
Education, Social Integration and Minority-majority Group Intermarriage
This article challenges the well-established finding that persons with higher levels of education are more likely to marry outside their own ethnic group. The empirical research upon which that finding is based has been dominated by studies of groups of either immigrant or low socio-economic status. We revisit the question by examining census of population data on two minorities - Protestants in the Republic of Ireland and the Swedish-speaking Fi…
Transitions within and from ethno-linguistically mixed and endogamous first unions in Finland
Utilizing longitudinal population register data from Finland, this study examines the influence of exogamy on transitions within and from first unions. The aim is to assess how ethno-linguistically mixed unions, consisting of Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers, differ from endogamous unions with respect to various transitions in the family formation process subsequent to entry into childless cohabitation. We find evidence of notable selection.…
Choosing for the Children
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.
Ethno-Linguistic Exogamy and Divorce
This research examines whether the exogamy effect on the divorce risk varies over marital duration. Registry data from 1970 to 2003 allow us to observe couples in exogamous and endogamous ethno-linguistic marriages (Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers in Finland). We find that an elevated divorce risk of exogamous couples, which has been observed in numerous studies, is not typical of recently initiated marriages only, because it does not atten…
Forced migration and mortality in the very long term
In this article, we analyze mortality rates of Finns born in areas that were ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II and from which the entire population was evacuated. These internally displaced persons are observed during the period 1971-2004 and compared with people born in the same region but on the adjacent side of the new border. We find that in the 1970s and 1980s, the forced migrants had mortality rates that were on par with those of…
Transitions Within and From First Unions
In this article, we study how different transitional phases from childless cohabitation relate to education and educational resemblance of the partners. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we extend analyses of previous research to suit the conditions in societies where almost all unions begin before marriage and much childbearing takes place outside marriage. Educationally heterogamous couples are found to have higher separ…
Sex composition of children, parental separation, and parity progression
Previous studies that have studied parental gender preferences for children have analysed either divorce or parity progression. We use Finnish register data that make it possible to study both events simultaneously by following the same couples with childr
Geographic Ancestry and Cause-specific Mortality in a National Population
Adjustment failures in an immigrant population
Mortality Variation by Birth Region and Ethnicity
Previous research has shown that the persistent regional mortality differences in Finland cannot be attributed to sociodemographic factors, health behaviors, or living conditions at young age. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we analyze the effect of birth region and ethnicity on mortality risks in men age 65-74 years and women age 75-84 years. Mortality from ischemic heart disease in particular is found to be highly infl…
The International Family Migration of Swedish-Speaking Finns
Using population register data from Finland, we study international family migration in the context of moves between two highly developed and gender-equal countries. The focus is on the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, a group with high international migration rates and good labour market prospects in the primary host country, Sweden. The influence of spousal education on emigration and return migration risks is of specific interest. We fi…
Long-term Mortality of War Cohorts
Cause-specific mortality at young ages
Mortality inequality in two native population groups
A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of variation in health-related characteristics, are rel…
Divorce and parity progression following the death of a child
Most studies that have examined whether a child's death influences parental relationship stability have used small-scale data sets and their results are inconclusive. A likely reason is that child loss affects not only the risk of parental separation, but also the risk of having another child. Hence parity progression and separation must be treated as two competing events in relation to child loss. The analysis in this paper used Finnish register…
The Ethno-linguistic Community and Premature Death
Language and demography
In this article a sociolinguistic as well as a demographic perspective is used in order to present the historical background of the Swedish language in Finland and of the users of this language. The first part describes the evolution of the Swedish language as it developed into a complete language, serving the needs of the Finnish society. This description primarily deals with issues at the macro level, whereas social and dialectal variations at …
Ethnicity and Unemployment in Finland
This research note provides the general findings from a research project analyzing the reasons behind the lower unemployment rate of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, compared with the Finnish-speaking majority. The main conclusion is that the unemployment gap cannot be attributed to ethnic-group differences in age, education, place of residence, or industrial structure. We believe that two latent factors are highly relevant in this conte…
Ethnic Affiliation of Children and the Risk of Union Dissolution
This paper illustrates that the ethnic affiliation of the first-born child can be used to deepen our understanding of ethnic heterogamy effects on unions' dissolution risk. We use longitudinal population register data from Finland that cover the period 1971-2003, consisting of almost 65,000 unions, whereof the number of ethnically mixed unions is 11,365. Those in which a greater proportion of the parents are likely to have made a more deliberate …
Language-group Differences in Very Early Retirement in Finland
The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison between the two language groups in Finland. Extensive longitudinal data are analysed with the help of random effects probit models
Fertility in Larsmo
Larsmo is a small municipality on the West coast of Finland with an exceptional fertility development due to the presence of a revivalist movement, Laestadianism, which is opposed to contraception. About 40 per cent of the population are Laestadians. Laestadians do not cohabit outside formal marriage, and the rule of pre-marital sexual abstinence seems to be observed. Within marriage, fertility seems to be unrestricted with respect to the first c…
The demographic effect of mixed marriages
The demographic effect of mixed marriages
Fertility in Larsmo
Larsmo is a small municipality on the West coast of Finland with an exceptional fertility development due to the presence of a revivalist movement, Laestadianism, which is opposed to contraception. About 40 per cent of the population are Laestadians. Laestadians do not cohabit outside formal marriage, and the rule of pre-marital sexual abstinence seems to be observed. Within marriage, fertility seems to be unrestricted with respect to the first c…
Entry into Consensual Unions and Marriages Among Finnish Women Born Between 1938 and 1967
This study, based on a survey undertaken in 1989, clearly illustrates the dramatic changes in family formation behaviour that have occurred in Finland. Whereas only about one-tenth of the first unions of women born between 1938 and 1942 began as consensual unions, after the cohort of 1962 only one-tenth were formal marriages. These changes lagged some ten years behind the corresponding ones in Sweden, but were about five years ahead of Norway. In…
Social Integration, Heterogeneity, and Divorce
The study compared marital stability in Finland with focus on the two language groups. The divorce rate was remarkably lower among the Swedish-speaking minority than among the Finnish-speaking majority. An explanation for this may be differences in social integration. The assumption about the effect of social integration was also supported by covariates measuring urbanization and individual migration. A hypothesis that marital homogamy reduces th…
Ethnicity and Unemployment in Finland
This research note provides the general findings from a research project analyzing the reasons behind the lower unemployment rate of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, compared with the Finnish-speaking majority. The main conclusion is that the unemployment gap cannot be attributed to ethnic-group differences in age, education, place of residence, or industrial structure. We believe that two latent factors are highly relevant in this conte…
Language-group Differences in Very Early Retirement in Finland
The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison between the two language groups in Finland. Extensive longitudinal data are analysed with the help of random effects probit models
Education, Social Integration and Minority-majority Group Intermarriage
This article challenges the well-established finding that persons with higher levels of education are more likely to marry outside their own ethnic group. The empirical research upon which that finding is based has been dominated by studies of groups of either immigrant or low socio-economic status. We revisit the question by examining census of population data on two minorities - Protestants in the Republic of Ireland and the Swedish-speaking Fi…
Choosing for the Children
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.
Mortality inequality in two native population groups
A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of variation in health-related characteristics, are rel…
The effect of social capital on health
Cause-specific mortality at young ages
Language and demography
In this article a sociolinguistic as well as a demographic perspective is used in order to present the historical background of the Swedish language in Finland and of the users of this language. The first part describes the evolution of the Swedish language as it developed into a complete language, serving the needs of the Finnish society. This description primarily deals with issues at the macro level, whereas social and dialectal variations at …
Adjustment failures in an immigrant population
Cross-country Employment Propensity of Finnish Migrants
This paper explores how individual employment propensity interrelates across countries and time, using data that link population registers from Sweden and Finland. Migrants are observed before emigration, after emigration, and in a follow-up in cases both where they were still living in the host country and if they had return migrated. The interrelation is found to be strong, suggesting that migrants’ employment problems need not necessarily be d…
Geographic Ancestry and Cause-specific Mortality in a National Population
Forced migration and mortality in the very long term
In this article, we analyze mortality rates of Finns born in areas that were ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II and from which the entire population was evacuated. These internally displaced persons are observed during the period 1971-2004 and compared with people born in the same region but on the adjacent side of the new border. We find that in the 1970s and 1980s, the forced migrants had mortality rates that were on par with those of…
Mortality Variation by Birth Region and Ethnicity
Previous research has shown that the persistent regional mortality differences in Finland cannot be attributed to sociodemographic factors, health behaviors, or living conditions at young age. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we analyze the effect of birth region and ethnicity on mortality risks in men age 65-74 years and women age 75-84 years. Mortality from ischemic heart disease in particular is found to be highly infl…
Family origin and mortality
Parental birth area is the driving force behind the regional mortality difference in Finland. The findings highlight and give further support for the potentially important role of genetic risk factors in mortality. Close monitoring of persons' geographic and ethnic ancestry may promote public health and avoid many early deaths
Long-term Mortality of War Cohorts
The International Family Migration of Swedish-Speaking Finns
Using population register data from Finland, we study international family migration in the context of moves between two highly developed and gender-equal countries. The focus is on the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, a group with high international migration rates and good labour market prospects in the primary host country, Sweden. The influence of spousal education on emigration and return migration risks is of specific interest. We fi…
Ethnic Affiliation of Children and the Risk of Union Dissolution
This paper illustrates that the ethnic affiliation of the first-born child can be used to deepen our understanding of ethnic heterogamy effects on unions' dissolution risk. We use longitudinal population register data from Finland that cover the period 1971-2003, consisting of almost 65,000 unions, whereof the number of ethnically mixed unions is 11,365. Those in which a greater proportion of the parents are likely to have made a more deliberate …
Family Formation and Offspring Mortality in Sweden
Using multigenerational population register data that cover the total Swedish population, we studied relative mortality of offspring whose parents had formed a new family with children. These primarily adult-age children are found to have lower death risks than those with divorced parents who did not form a new family, which highlights that the link between parental family formation and offspring health may be attributed not only to causal factor…
Transitions Within and From First Unions
In this article, we study how different transitional phases from childless cohabitation relate to education and educational resemblance of the partners. Using longitudinal population register data from Finland, we extend analyses of previous research to suit the conditions in societies where almost all unions begin before marriage and much childbearing takes place outside marriage. Educationally heterogamous couples are found to have higher separ…
Sex composition of children, parental separation, and parity progression
Previous studies that have studied parental gender preferences for children have analysed either divorce or parity progression. We use Finnish register data that make it possible to study both events simultaneously by following the same couples with childr
Transitions within and from ethno-linguistically mixed and endogamous first unions in Finland
Utilizing longitudinal population register data from Finland, this study examines the influence of exogamy on transitions within and from first unions. The aim is to assess how ethno-linguistically mixed unions, consisting of Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers, differ from endogamous unions with respect to various transitions in the family formation process subsequent to entry into childless cohabitation. We find evidence of notable selection.…
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