Aleksandrs Aleksandrovs

GPS jamming is reported regularly in the area – new normal 🤷‍♂️

Kæmpe tillykke, Cosmo!

Socioeconomic inequalities in survival to retirement age in Denmark: a register-based analysis - Genus Around the world, people are increasingly living to older ages. This challenges the sustainability of the pension systems. In Denmark, statutory retirement age increases gradually to account for changes in life expectancy. However, the chances of reaching retirement age are not equal across the Danish population, and raising the retirement age could disproportionally impact those of lower socioeconomic status. In this study, we investigated socioeconomic inequalities in mortality before reaching retirement age in Denmark and how a higher retirement age would affect survival to retirement across socioeconomic groups. We used Danish registry data over a 30-year period, focusing on 19 consecutive birth cohorts: 1936–1954. We assessed the probability of dying between age 50 and retirement age, set at 65 and 67, across socioeconomic groups using three dimensions of socioeconomic status: education, occupation, and income. We found that the gap in survival has widened over time between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups for each indicator, driven mostly by limited or stagnant improvements in the lowest socioeconomic groups. Our findings show that raising the retirement age from 65 to 67 disproportionately affects individuals from lower socioeconomic groups, especially men, in absolute terms. Pension reforms that link retirement age to life expectancy are sharpening inequalities, as lower-SES groups are not only facing higher early mortality, but also experience much slower improvements in mortality.

[Paper alert] Mortality decreases for highest socioeconomic groups in Denmark 🇩🇰 while stagnating for lowest ones | Survival to retirement | Danish registry | @cosmostrozza.bsky.social in @genus.bsky.social with @svigezzi.bsky.social @juliacalla.bsky.social @sandrsalek.bsky.social @ikashnitsky.phd

3 years ago, Jim Vaupel passed away

he was an exceptional scholar, mentor, and teacher

he founded multiple influential structures in #demography

here is a short footage on how he approached the challenges

read many more warm stories at our memorial website

remembering-james-vaupel.org

COVID-19 exacerbated inequalities in life expectancy in Denmark - N-IUSSP Social inequalities in mortality expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark. Cosmo Strozza, Serena Vigezzi, Julia Callaway, and José Manuel Aburto quantified life expectancy changes in 2020 and ...

Social inequalities in mortality expanded during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark☠️🇩🇰
Our N-IUSSP article presents life expectancy changes and highlights the causes of death that contributed to these changes👇

@svigezzi.bsky.social @juliacalla.bsky.social @jmaburto.bsky.social

New paper out with @cosmostrozza.bsky.social on inequalities in reaching retirement age by living arrangement in Denmark, showing persistent inequalities across cohorts. You can find it on Demographic Research! doi.org/10.4054/DemR...

Despite migrants' advantage, there's a high probability (40-50%) that non-migrants will outsurvive migrants post-retirement. In Denmark, we compare migrants to non-migrants by income group, for a more complete picture 🔍
Work with @juliacalla.bsky.social Sven Drefahl Eleonora Mussino @ikashnitsky.phd

At retirement age, non-European-born migrants have a survival advantage in Denmark and Sweden, but also greater lifespan inequality. New study, part of the Special Collection in honor of Jim Vaupel: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...