Research regarding the earnings-related pensions is diverse and carried out at many different institutions

The Finnish Centre for Pensions has almost from the start also been a research institute. Recently especially the connection between pension provision and the national economy, coping with the work and the part-time pension have been studied. In addition, the Finnish Centre for Pensions finances outside research regarding the earnings-related pensions.

The largest pension providers finance and also conduct their own research regarding the earnings-related pensions.

The Local Government Pensions Institution finances research in its own line of industry. Its own research activities started in 1999, and concentrate on retirement, financing of the pensions, rehabilitation, and the well-being and work capacity of local government employees. External factors that are also investigated include the local government labour market, local government functional prerequisites and regional development.

The research unit of the pension insurance company Etera studies the employees’ state of health, work capacity and working conditions and factors influencing them in cooperation with other research institutes. The research activities support the decision-making regarding disability and rehabilitation issues at the pension insurance company Etera as well as aids the companies, employees and labour market organisations within the industries covered by the Temporary Employees’ Pensions Act (LEL).

The Social Insurance Institution (Kela) has a large research unit. Interesting research issues there as regards the earnings-related pensions include research into unemployment and ageing employees, the processes that lead to incapacity for work and rehabilitation services as well as studying the social security schemes as part of the national economy.

The National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health STAKES has touched on earnings-related pension research by investigating activating and rehabilitating work, work and family life as well as conducting comparative research on the Nordic welfare state.

The professorship in insurance science, established a few years ago, at the University of Tampere increases the research regarding social insurance and earnings-related pension provision.

Likewise, the research in gerontology and social gerontology at the University of Jyväskylä has a lot of connections to the problems in earnings-related pension provision.

Outside the universities, many research institutes have conducted research which is directly or indirectly connected to the earnings-related pensions.

Furthermore, the recently set up further training program for experts in social insurance at the University of Turku also produces research on the earnings-related pensions.

External links:The Finnish Centre for Pensions, The Local Government Pensions Institution, The Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company, The Social Insurance Institution, Stakes, University of Tampere, University of Jyväskylä, University of Turku