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Andreas P. Weiland
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Postdoctoral researcher @TU Dortmund | Sociology and social policy | Life course, family, work, pensions, wealth | prev. University of Bamberg, University of Mannheim/MZES, University of Cologne | skeets mostly English and sometimes German |
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wdetavernier.bsky.social
While we've been quite good at predicting life-expectancy gains, we've systematically been too optimistic about future fertility trends. That means there's a significant risk we're underestimating population ageing today too.
We better prepare pension systems for a low-fertility future.
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In 1994, the average total fertility rate in the OECD was around 1.9 and projections assumed fertility had reached its lowest level and would bounce up again. By 2012, it had decreased to 1.7, but projections assumed it had reached its lowest point and would bounce up again. By 2024, it had decreased to below 1.5, but projections yet again assume it has now reached its lowest point and it will bounce up again.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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wdetavernier.bsky.social
On average, women's pensions are 23% lower than men's in the OECD. This gap reflects both past gender inequalities in the labour market - gender gaps in career length, hours worked and hourly wages - and redistributive elements in the pension system that can compensate for those.
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In the OECD on average, the gender pension gap declined by about 5 percentage points between 2007 and 2024. The gap remains high in Japan, the Benelux countries, the UK, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico. The smallest gaps are found in some Nordic and Central European countries: Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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wdetavernier.bsky.social
#Pensions at a Glance 2025 launched today.
🧵 with some key insights from this edition.
Full report now available here:
www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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The average future net replacement rate in the OECD is 63%. Retirement ages are set to increase in more than half of OECD countries, on average from 64.7 to 66.4 years. Men have higher disposable income than women in old age, at 92% and 82% of the average disposable income of the total population, respectively. Gender gaps are large, but steadily declining, from 28% in 2007 to 23% in 2024 in the OECD on average. Also gender gaps in career length have dropped sharply, from 10.2 to 5.9 years between 2000 and 2023 in the OECD on average. Past fertility projections have been too optimistic. If fertility were to fall further, population ageing may be faster than currently projected, further undermining pension sustainability.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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socarxiv.bsky.social
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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apweiland.bsky.social
Der Beitrag von @katjamoe.bsky.social @claraoverweg.bsky.social und mir zur aktuellen Rentendebatte
uni-bamberg.de uni-bamberg.de @uni-bamberg.de · 1d
Mutterschaft geht mit erheblichen Nachteilen bei Alterssicherung und Vermögen einher – trotz Mütterrente. Studie vergleicht Renten- und Vermögensverläufe von Frauen in Ost- und Westdeutschland über mehrere Geburtsjahrgänge hinweg: blog.uni-bamberg.de/forschung/20...
Mutterschaft geht mit erheblichen Nachteilen bei Alterssicherung und Vermögen einher – trotz Mütterrente
Studie vergleicht Renten- und Vermögensverläufe von Frauen in Ost- und Westdeutschland über mehrere Geburtsjahrgänge hinweg
blog.uni-bamberg.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
apweiland.bsky.social
Der Beitrag von @katjamoe.bsky.social @claraoverweg.bsky.social und mir zur aktuellen Rentendebatte
uni-bamberg.de uni-bamberg.de @uni-bamberg.de · 1d
Mutterschaft geht mit erheblichen Nachteilen bei Alterssicherung und Vermögen einher – trotz Mütterrente. Studie vergleicht Renten- und Vermögensverläufe von Frauen in Ost- und Westdeutschland über mehrere Geburtsjahrgänge hinweg: blog.uni-bamberg.de/forschung/20...
Mutterschaft geht mit erheblichen Nachteilen bei Alterssicherung und Vermögen einher – trotz Mütterrente
Studie vergleicht Renten- und Vermögensverläufe von Frauen in Ost- und Westdeutschland über mehrere Geburtsjahrgänge hinweg
blog.uni-bamberg.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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wdetavernier.bsky.social
Tomorrow from 11 to 12.30 CET, the culmination of a year's work.
In addition to the usual stats, the report contains:
- a chapter exploring the gender pension gap
- pension reforms
- bonus-penalty schemes
- rules for combinig work and pensions
- mandatory retirement rules
bsky.app/profile/wdet...
wdetavernier.bsky.social Wouter De Tavernier @wdetavernier.bsky.social · 2d
Thursday, we launch the new Pensions at a Glance!
- Gender pension gap
- Reliability of demographic projections
- Incentives and disincentive for working longer in retirement and pension policy
- Recent reforms
www.oecd.org/en/events/20...
Launch of Pensions at a Glance 2025
Launch of Pensions at a Glance 2025
www.oecd.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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tagesschau.bsky.social
Wie mit Statistik Stimmung gemacht wird#Kriminalität#Schüler#Nordrhein-Westfalen
Wie mit Statistik Stimmung gemacht wird
Die Forscher widersprechen der Interpretation in vielen Medien und Teilen der daraus abgeleiteten Forderungen.
www.tagesschau.de
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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ence.bsky.social
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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williamlallen.bsky.social
This chimes with our new open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social study of French-language immigration posts, which shows how far-right users flood feeds with hyper-partisan sources for political purposes: doi.org/10.1080/1058...
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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pascalsiegers.bsky.social
Please share! Top Gelegenheit Erfahrungen im Maschinenraum der Sozialforschung zu sammeln.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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ajriekhoff.bsky.social
📢 New article with @apolvinen.bsky.social and Riku Perhoniemi in the European Journal of Public Health! What happens to Finns who end up on a temporary disability pension, not only after the start of the pension but also before? 1/3
Screen shot of the abstract of the article: Every year, a significant number of people in Finland retire on a disability pension. Half of them are granted a temporary disability pension. Our study examines the different pathways into and out of temporary disability retirement and analyses how individual-level factors are associated with these pathways. We used comprehensive register data on Finns aged 30–58 who received a temporary disability pension in 2018 and followed them for 4 years before and after their pension claim. Sequence analysis in combination with clustering was used to identify typical patterns in and out of temporary disability pension. In addition, we examined the association between individual-level factors and the observed pathways. We identified nine distinct clusters with unique pathways. Two-thirds of the study population belonged to five clusters in which receipt of a disability pension continued for several years. The majority had been employed before receiving the pension. Only 18% belonged to a single cluster characterized by return to work, while persons in the remaining three clusters (20%) ended up in unemployment or unknown labour market states. The different pathways also differed by individual-level factors. We identified several different pathways into and out of temporary disability pensions. Most of them were characterized by long-term disability retirement rather than return to work. A better understanding of these pathways and associated individual factors is crucial to developing more effective strategies to facilitate return to work and prevent long-term disability.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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arianeophir.bsky.social
🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open!

Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based.
👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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nikovaananen.bsky.social
For those interested.

My article 'Designed Autonomy : Neo-Corporatism and Long-Term Pension Policies in Finland' is available in English

The text analyses the decision-making process of Finnish pensions, its strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges ahead.

www.julkari.fi/handle/10024...
Designed Autonomy : Neo-Corporatism and Long-Term Pension Policies in Finland
www.julkari.fi
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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natrinh.bsky.social
Great job opportunity for those keen to do *applied* and* impactful* research on the effects of universal basic income at Mein Grundeinkommen e.V. with partners at the @ox.ac.uk, @wuvienna.bsky.social & Frankfurt School of Finance and Management! 👇

mein-grundeinkommen.homerun.co/research-ass...
Research Associate - Mein Grundeinkommen
- Behavioural Sciences -
mein-grundeinkommen.homerun.co
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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seqanalysisassn.bsky.social
The next sequence analysis webinar will take place on Thursday Nov 13 at 4pm CET

Two great talks from Satu Helske on hidden markov models and Stefan Andrade on robust clustering

Zoom link on sequenceanalysis.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ajriekhoff.bsky.social
Together with Kène Henkens and Harry van Dalen we updated the chapter on “Managing an older workforce and retirement: The employer’s perspective” for the forthcoming second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Retirement. academic.oup.com/edited-volum....
Abstract: This chapter discusses the literature with respect to the role of employers in the retirement processes of older workers and provides suggestions for future research. The first part of the chapter reviews existing theoretical insights regarding the employers’ actions and attitudes toward older workers and retirement. The next section discusses empirical findings with regard to age-related stereotypes in the workplace and age norms with respect to retirement, and presents some results from an international comparative employer study. The chapter concludes with a section on the management of retirement processes, focusing on the exit and hiring of older workers.
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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demographyvienna.bsky.social
📢 Job opening!
Join our Research Group on Population Data and Projections as a Postdoctoral Researcher
⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 1-year position
🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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emstruffolino.bsky.social
OPEN NOW the call for presenting your work at the @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social webinar series from Jan.2026! info for submission sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...
GESIS Training Courses
training.gesis.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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crestsociology.bsky.social
✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology

Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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datendealerin.bsky.social
When people bring me their dataset and say they've anonymized it.
wafflecut.bsky.social Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · Oct 16
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024 INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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morettimarg.bsky.social
📣Excited to share that our paper on widowhood, its gender and educational inequalities, and evolution over time in Finland is out now in @readdemography.bsky.social !✨
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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klauspforr.bsky.social
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fdzgml.bsky.social GESIS German Microdata Lab @fdzgml.bsky.social · Oct 15
📣🆕Complete Set of Setups for EU-SILC 2025-Release 1 are now available. These setups are compatible with the statistical software packages Stata, SPSS, and R, allowing to convert CSV data into system files for analysis.
Access to the setups: www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat...
GESIS: MISSY - Setups: EU-SILC
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM