Research Group

Labor Demography

Increasing longevity and the decreasing worker-to-non-worker ratio are among the key demographic challenges facing the developed world. Encouraging people to work longer is a potential solution to the problems associated with these trends. Detailed Description

Selected Publications

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working life expectancy at age 50 in the US and the impact of the Great Recession

Demography 54:6, 2101–2123. (2017)

Lorenti, A.; Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

The legacy of the Great Recession in Italy: a wider geographical, gender, and generational gap in working life expectancy

Social Indicators Research 142:1, 283–303. (2019)

Dudel, C.:

Expanding the Markov chain tool box: distributions of occupation times and waiting times

Sociological Methods and Research, 1–28. (2018)

Dudel, C.; López Gómez, M. A.; Benavides, F. G.; Myrskylä, M.:

The length of working life in Spain: levels, recent trends, and the impact of the financial crisis

European Journal of Population 34:5, 769–791. (2018)

Finnigan, R.; Hale, J. M.:

Working 9 to 5? Union membership and work hours and schedules

Social Forces 96:4, 1541–1568. (2018)

Research

Department Myrskylä
Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being

Laboratory of Population Health
Research Group: Labor Demography
Department Zagheni
Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography
Joint Research Labs
Laboratory of Demographic Data
Laboratory of Statistical Demography
Independent Research Groups
Research Group: Lifespan Inequalities
Research Group: Mathematical and Actuarial Demography
Max Planck Research Group: Gender Gap in Health and Survival