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I am a research manager at Kela’s Research Unit. My research areas include, in particular, absences due to sickness compensated by sickness allowance and disability pensions and, more broadly, register-based research on sickness benefits. Recent studies have covered topics such as demographic trends in sickness absences, incidences and lengths of sickness allowance periods, factors predicting retirement on disability pension, and the use of social and healthcare services in different populations.

Expertise

  • sickness allowances
  • disability pensions
  • reimbursements for medical expenses
  • register-based research on sickness benefits
  • health and welfare inequalities

Ongoing research projects

Previous research projects

Publications

Posts in Kela's research blog

Recent publications

Publications and research projects

Basic Social Assistance and Sociodemographic Factors among Working-Age Contractual Informal Caregivers

The study explored how common basic social assistance is among caregivers and investigated the associations between the receipt of basic social assistance and sociodemographic and health-related background factors and the duration of caregiving among caregivers and matched controls.

Development of Kela’s Decision-Making System for Evaluating Incapacity for Work

This project adopts a multi-method approach to examine register data compiled by Kela and the Finnish Centre for Pensions in order to establish the underlying reasons for the increase in the percentage of denied disability pension applications.

Municipality-Level Differences in Disability Retirement in Finland: The Contribution of Local Social Characteristics

This study examined whether individual-level and municipality-level characteristics explain differences in disability retirement and which municipality-level characteristics are particularly important for the risk of disability retirement.

Disability benefits and socioeconomic status 2010-2023

The project examines the development of the prevalence of sickness benefit across socio-economic groups. A special focus is on mental health-related absences.

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