Markus Kainu

Presentation

I am a senior researcher at Kela’s Research Unit. I develop software and platforms to enhance scientific computing at Kela. My research work relates to regional variation of social security and the wellbeing of Kela's employees at work.

Expertise

• research software development and scientific computing
• geographic information and regional variation of social security
• open data and open science
• personnel research

Ongoing research projects

• Indicators of Pharmacotherapy: A Joint Project of Fimea and Kela

Previous research projects

• The Role of Migration and Social Policy in Shaping the Demographic Structure and Social Problems in Finnish Suburbs

Web applications

• Purchases of prescription medicines by ATC classification (Kela)
• Active substances for outpatient and inpatient use whose costs have increased or decreased the most (Kela)

Publications

• 2021 Kainu M: Kuka pelastaisi verkkoalustojen tiedesisällöt? Idäntutkimus. Vol 28 Nro 3 (2021): Teknologia https://doi.org/10.33345/idantutkimus.112343
• 2021 Mannila S & Kainu M: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Russia. Teoksessa: Kivinen Markku, Humphreys Brendan, editors. Russian modernization. A new paradigm. Routledge
• 2020 Mannila S & Kainu M: Poverty and Confidence in Russia. Teoksessa: Chernysh Mikhail, Nikula Jouko, editors. Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia : Waiting for the Middle-Class Society? Routledge
• 2020 Kivinen, Markku, Meri Kulmala, Jouko Nikula, Simo Mannila, Kainu Markus, Laura Kemppainen, Teemu Kemppainen, et al.: Modernization of the Russian Social Policy: Social Crisis, Interventions, and Withdrawals. Teoksessa: Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm. Routledge
• 2020 Kangas Olli, Palme Joakim & Kainu Markus: Welfare state entry and exit over the life course. Employment and the sustainability of the welfare state in different worlds of welfare. Teoksessa: Foulkes Savinetti, Nicol, and Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Shaping and Re-Shaping the Boundaries of Working Life. Tampere University Press 
• 2019 Kainu, Markus, Markku Kivinen, Stein Kuhnle, and Chunling Li: Reform and Stability – The Russian and the Chinese Welfare Systems Compared. Russian Politics, 4.3 (2019), 423–46. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451-8921-00403007