Petri Böckerman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 279757 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Petri Böckerman |
| PRENOMES | Petri |
| SOBRENOME | Böckerman |
| ASSINATURA | BÖCKERMAN P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Labour Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5372-2985 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Nature's Curriculum
Recent research has identified genes linked to educational attainment, but their effects on subsequent socioeconomic outcomes, particularly in egalitarian Nordic welfare states, remain largely unexplored. We analyze two genetically informed Finnish datasets, encompassing longitudinal register information on earnings, employment, unemployment, occupational status, and social assistance receipt (n = 31,622). We examine the role of a polygenic score…
Impact of Retirement on Quality of Life
Ageing populations foreground understanding how retirement affects quality of life. The inconclusive findings on retirement’s quality of life impacts encourage further analyses of this association’s complexity. Using waves 4 (2011) and 6 (2015) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe ( N = 9249) and conditional change multilevel mixed-effects linear regressions, this study investigates how changes in three measures of social netw…
A family affair? Long-term economic and mental health effects of spousal cancer
Research on the family spillover effects of health shocks, which has focused mainly on labor market outcomes, has yielded inconclusive results, with limited insight into long-term consequences or underlying mechanisms. We analyze the short- and long-term impacts of cancer on the unaffected spouse’s labor supply and mental health as well as marital stability, considering gender and relative income status within the households. Using population-bas…
The effects of Covid-19-era unemployment and business closures upon the physical and mental health of older Europeans
COVID-19-era lockdown policies resulted in many older persons entering unemployment, facing financial difficulties and social restrictions, and experiencing declining health. Employing the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe's first COVID-19 module (summer 2020) (N = 11,231) and the Karlson-Holm-Breen method for decomposition of effects within non-linear probability models (logistic regression modelling), we examined associations of…
Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move
Traditional theories of migration frequently fail to fully explain the real-world patterns of interregional mobility. Empirical studies indicate that individuals may not always migrate for economic reasons such as poor employment and income prospects. Which characteristics drive people to stay or move after job displacement? Using information on establishment closures, we analyse the economic and social determinants of interregional mobility foll…
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood
BACKGROUND: This study examined the association between early parental death and children's subsequent mental health, years of schooling, and labour-market outcomes (ie, employment and earnings) in adulthood. METHODS: We used nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986 (n=962 350). Logistic and linear regression models were used to examine the association of early parental death before the age of 21 years with s…
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder
BACKGROUND: A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders. METHODS: All persons born in Finland between 1966 and 1986 who were alive and living in Finland at the end of the year when they turned 30 were included. Educational attainment, employment status and personal total income were used as the alternative…
Sustainable Working Life Patterns in a Swedish Twin Cohort
We aimed to investigate sustainable working life via age-related sequences of sickness absence (SA), disability pension (DP), unemployment (UE), premature death, and the influence of individual characteristics, accounting for familial confounding. The sample included monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) same-sexed twin pairs with register data ( n = 47,450) that were followed for 10 years in four age cohorts: 26-35 ( n = 9892), 36-45 ( n = 10,620)…
Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity
This paper studies the impact of long-term unemployment on physical activity. We examined the effects 6 and 15 years following a severe business cycle downturn in Finland over the period 1991-1994. The study sample comprised residents of Northern Finland. The unemployed individuals were 23-26 years old during the downturn. Physical activity, measured by MET minutes and meeting WHO guidelines, was higher 15 years later among those people who exper…
Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study
Education and risky health behaviors are strongly negatively correlated. Education may affect health behaviors by enabling healthier choices through higher disposable income, increasing information about the harmful effects of risky health behaviors, or altering time preferences. Alternatively, the observed negative correlation may stem from reverse causality or unobserved confounders. Based on the data from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns…
Do childhood infections affect labour market outcomes in adulthood and, if so, how
A burgeoning body of literature suggests that poor childhood health leads to adverse health outcomes, lower educational attainment and weaker labour market outcomes in adulthood. We focus on an important but under-researched topic, which is the role played by infection-related hospitalization (IRH) in childhood and its links to labour market outcomes later in life. The participants aged 24-30 years in 2001 N = 1706 were drawn from the Young Finns…
Moving to become healthier
This paper examines individuals' health and whether it improves when individuals move from a region with poorer health on average to a region with better health on average. We used data from Finland, which is a country with large regional differences in health behaviours and outcomes. We found no evidence that moving from a less healthy region to a healthier region would have any significant effect on the health of individuals who move compared w…
Health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market
This paper examines the relationship between health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market. The analysis is based on reduced-form models in which labour market outcomes are regressed on genetic variants related to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. We use linked Finnish data that have many strengths. Genetic risk scores constitute exogenous measures for health endowment, and accurate administrative tax records on earni…
Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform
The literature on the Ghent system has focused on the link between voluntary unemployment insurance and union membership in terms of industrial relations. Less attention has been paid to unemployment benefits and employees' decision‐making concerning unemployment insurance, even though the core function of the Ghent system is to provide unemployment insurance. This paper examines both of the options that precarious workers (i.e., part‐timers, tem…
Does job design make workers happy
Using linked employer‐employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design, employee well‐being and job‐related stress. Three key findings stand out. First, in accordance with the theory of Karasek and Karasek and Theorell, job control and supervisory support are positively correlated with employee well‐being and negatively correlated with job‐related stress. Second, as predicted by theory, job demands are positively correlated wi…
If you drink, don't smoke
Genetic endowments, parental resources and adult health
Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass
The challenges of GxE research
Stature and long-term labor market outcomes
The Education-health Nexus
Smoking and long-term labour market outcomes
Smoking is negatively related to long-term labour market outcomes. The provision of information about the indirect monetary costs of smoking may thus complement the policy efforts that aim at educating consumers about the health costs of smoking
The effect of polytechnic reform on migration
The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement
Institutionalisation and subjective wellbeing for old-age individuals
In this paper we examine whether there are systematic differences in the quality of life, depending on whether an individual is institutionalised or not, holding health status and income level constant. In doing this we use a nationally representative data set, the Health 2000 in Finland. When controlling for health and functional status, demographics and income level, we find that individuals who are living in old-age homes actually report signi…
Perception of Job Instability in Europe
The Job Satisfaction-Productivity Nexus
The authors examine the role of employee job satisfaction in Finnish manufacturing plants over the period 1996-2001 to determine the extent to which it affects establishment-level productivity. Using matched data on job satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and information on establishment productivity from longitudinal register data linked to the ECHP, they estimate that the effect of an increase in the establishment's …
Geography of Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)
Böckerman P. and Lehto E. (2006) Geography of domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As): evidence from matched firm-level data, Regional Studies 40, 847–860. This paper explores domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from the regional perspective. The Finnish evidence reveals that geographical closeness is a characteristic of great importance for domestic M&As. Thus, a great number of M&As occur within narrowly defined regions. Interestingly, do…
Interaction of working conditions, job satisfaction, and sickness absences
Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness
The Education-health Nexus
If you drink, don't smoke
A family affair? Long-term economic and mental health effects of spousal cancer
Research on the family spillover effects of health shocks, which has focused mainly on labor market outcomes, has yielded inconclusive results, with limited insight into long-term consequences or underlying mechanisms. We analyze the short- and long-term impacts of cancer on the unaffected spouse’s labor supply and mental health as well as marital stability, considering gender and relative income status within the households. Using population-bas…
Institutionalisation and subjective wellbeing for old-age individuals
In this paper we examine whether there are systematic differences in the quality of life, depending on whether an individual is institutionalised or not, holding health status and income level constant. In doing this we use a nationally representative data set, the Health 2000 in Finland. When controlling for health and functional status, demographics and income level, we find that individuals who are living in old-age homes actually report signi…
Economic inequality and population health
This paper studies the sensitivity of various health indicators to income inequality as measured by regional Gini coefficients, using individual microdata from Finland over the period 1993-2005. There is no overall association between income and health at the regional level. We discovered that, among men, there are no significant associations between income inequality and several measures of health status. Among women or among both sexes combined…
The physical strenuousness of work is slightly associated with an upward trend in the BMI
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood
BACKGROUND: This study examined the association between early parental death and children's subsequent mental health, years of schooling, and labour-market outcomes (ie, employment and earnings) in adulthood. METHODS: We used nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986 (n=962 350). Logistic and linear regression models were used to examine the association of early parental death before the age of 21 years with s…
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder
BACKGROUND: A study was undertaken to examine the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common mental disorders. METHODS: All persons born in Finland between 1966 and 1986 who were alive and living in Finland at the end of the year when they turned 30 were included. Educational attainment, employment status and personal total income were used as the alternative…
Does job design make workers happy
Using linked employer‐employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design, employee well‐being and job‐related stress. Three key findings stand out. First, in accordance with the theory of Karasek and Karasek and Theorell, job control and supervisory support are positively correlated with employee well‐being and negatively correlated with job‐related stress. Second, as predicted by theory, job demands are positively correlated wi…
Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass
The challenges of GxE research
Labour markets in Finland during the great twentieth centuty
The study compares the great depressions of the twentieth century in Finland from the perspective of labour market adjustment channels. The increase in employment was much more rapid during the rebound from the great depression of the 1930s compared with the recovery from the great slump of the 1990s. There was a moderate decline in real wages in manufacturing industries during the early 1990s, However, the slump of the 1930s brought a severe fal…
Unravelling the Mystery of Regional Unemployment in Finland
I am most grateful to Eija Savaja for the construction of the data. I ' am grateful to Reija
Perception of Job Instability in Europe
Geography of Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)
Böckerman P. and Lehto E. (2006) Geography of domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As): evidence from matched firm-level data, Regional Studies 40, 847–860. This paper explores domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from the regional perspective. The Finnish evidence reveals that geographical closeness is a characteristic of great importance for domestic M&As. Thus, a great number of M&As occur within narrowly defined regions. Interestingly, do…
Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness
Interaction of working conditions, job satisfaction, and sickness absences
The physical strenuousness of work is slightly associated with an upward trend in the BMI
Unemployment and self‐assessed health
We examine the relationship between unemployment and self‐assessed health using the European Community Household Panel for Finland over the period 1996–2001. Our results show that the event of becoming unemployed does not matter as such for self‐assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the continually employed. Therefore, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unem…
Obesity and labour market success in Finland
Economic inequality and population health
This paper studies the sensitivity of various health indicators to income inequality as measured by regional Gini coefficients, using individual microdata from Finland over the period 1993-2005. There is no overall association between income and health at the regional level. We discovered that, among men, there are no significant associations between income inequality and several measures of health status. Among women or among both sexes combined…
The relationship between physical work and the height premium
The return to the technological frontier
The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement
Institutionalisation and subjective wellbeing for old-age individuals
In this paper we examine whether there are systematic differences in the quality of life, depending on whether an individual is institutionalised or not, holding health status and income level constant. In doing this we use a nationally representative data set, the Health 2000 in Finland. When controlling for health and functional status, demographics and income level, we find that individuals who are living in old-age homes actually report signi…
The Job Satisfaction-Productivity Nexus
The authors examine the role of employee job satisfaction in Finnish manufacturing plants over the period 1996-2001 to determine the extent to which it affects establishment-level productivity. Using matched data on job satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and information on establishment productivity from longitudinal register data linked to the ECHP, they estimate that the effect of an increase in the establishment's …
The effect of polytechnic reform on migration
Smoking and long-term labour market outcomes
Smoking is negatively related to long-term labour market outcomes. The provision of information about the indirect monetary costs of smoking may thus complement the policy efforts that aim at educating consumers about the health costs of smoking
Stature and long-term labor market outcomes
The Education-health Nexus
Genetic endowments, parental resources and adult health
Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass
The challenges of GxE research
If you drink, don't smoke
Moving to become healthier
This paper examines individuals' health and whether it improves when individuals move from a region with poorer health on average to a region with better health on average. We used data from Finland, which is a country with large regional differences in health behaviours and outcomes. We found no evidence that moving from a less healthy region to a healthier region would have any significant effect on the health of individuals who move compared w…
Health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market
This paper examines the relationship between health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market. The analysis is based on reduced-form models in which labour market outcomes are regressed on genetic variants related to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. We use linked Finnish data that have many strengths. Genetic risk scores constitute exogenous measures for health endowment, and accurate administrative tax records on earni…
Economics (29 obras) · Medicine (23 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Demography (16 obras) · Demographic economics (15 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (15 obras) · Economic growth (14 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Demography (13 obras)