Prof. Mikko Niemelä

Department of Social Research

University of Turku, Finland

Professor of Sociology

Research Department

Social Insurance Institution, Finland

Research Professor

Email: mikko.niemela@kela.fi, mikko.niemela@utu.fi

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Turku, Social policy

M.S., University of Turku, Social policy

Publications (Selected)

1. Koivula, A., Laaninen, M., & Niemelä, M. (2025). Changes in Subjective Well-Being and its Mechanisms during Times of Crises in Finland. Social Indicators Research, 1-21.
2. Kujala, P., & Niemelä, M. (2025). Fear of crime and economic inequality: the European cross-national perspective. In Handbook on Crime and Inequality (pp. 105-124). Edward Elgar Publishing.
3. Hakovirta, M., Nygård, M., Niemelä, M., & Lindberg, M. (2024). Pohjoismaisen perhepolitiikan ja lapsiperheiden toimeentulon muutokset 2000-luvulla. In Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2024 (pp. 47-72). Kalevi Sorsa-säätiö.
4. Laaninen, M., & Niemelä, M. (2023). Koettu yksinäisyys Suomessa 2016–2022.
5. Karonen, E., & Niemelä, M. (2022). Necessity-Rich, Leisure-Poor: The Long-Term Relationship Between Income Cohorts and Consumption Through Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 43(3), 599-620.
6. Aaltonen, K., Niemelä, M., & Prix, I. (2022). Citizens’ opinions and experiences related to costs and reimbursements for medications in times of retrenchment: cross-sectional population surveys in 2015 and 2017. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21(1), 33.
7. Eskelinen, N., Kainulainen, S., Kujala, P., & Niemelä, M. (2022). Koetun hyvinvoinnin muutokset ja väestöryhmittäiset erot. Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2022.
8. Kangas, O., Ylikännö, M., & Niemelä, M. (2021). Trust, capabilities, confidence and basic income. In Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income (pp. 117-133). Edward Elgar Publishing.
9. Salonen, L., Alexanderson, K., Rugulies, R., Framke, E., Niemelä, M., & Farrants, K. (2020). Combinations of job demands and job control and future trajectories of sickness absence and disability pension an 11-year follow-up of two million employees in Sweden. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62(10), 795-802.
10. Karonen, E., & Niemelä, M. (2020). Life course perspective on economic shocks and income inequality through age‐period‐cohort analysis: Evidence from Finland. Review of Income and Wealth, 66(2), 287-310.
11. Kallio, J., Lintunen, L., Niemelä, M., Blomberg, H., & Kroll, C. (2020). Lurjuksista kunnon kansalaisia?: Kansalaisten asennoituminen toimeentulotuen saajiin 2012–2018.
12. Varjonen, S., Kangas, O., & Niemelä, M. (2020). Partisanship, continuity, and change: Politics in Finnish unemployment benefit reforms 1985–2016. Social Policy & Administration, 54(1), 119-133.
13. Kujala, P., Kallio, J., & Niemelä, M. (2019). Income inequality, poverty, and fear of crime in Europe. Cross-Cultural Research, 53(2), 163-185.
14. Blomberg-Kroll, H. K., Jauhiainen, S., Kanerva, M., Kangas, O., Komu, M., Kroll, K. C., ... & Ylikännö, M. (2019). Wellbeing effects of the basic income experiment. In The basic income experiment 2017-2018 in Finland: Preliminary results (pp. 16-28). Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
15. Salonen, L., Blomgren, J., Laaksonen, M., & Niemelä, M. (2018). Sickness absence as a predictor of disability retirement in different occupational classes: a register-based study of a working-age cohort in Finland in 2007–2014. BMJ open, 8(5), e020491.

Profile Details

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