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  1. Employment and earnings trajectories before and after sickness absence due to major depressive disorder: a nationwide case–control study

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, October 2020, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  2. Determinants of prescription opioid use: population‐based evidence from Finland

    Article • Addiction, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  3. Education leads to a more physically active lifestyle: Evidence based on Mendelian randomization

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  4. Back to school: Labor-market returns to higher vocational schooling

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  5. Mental disorders and long‐term labour market outcomes: nationwide cohort study of 2 055 720 individuals

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  6. Alternative measures of body composition and wage premium: New evidence from Indonesia

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2019, PLOS

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  7. Health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market: Evidence using genetic risk scores and reduced-form models

    Article • SSM - Population Health, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  8. Does job design make workers happy?

    Article • Scottish Journal of Political Economy, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  9. Do good working conditions make you work longer? Analyzing retirement decisions using linked survey and register data

    Article • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  10. Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform: The Finnish experience

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, January 2019, Wiley

    Young-Kyu Shin, Professor Petri Böckerman

  11. Does education protect against depression? Evidence from the Young Finns Study using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Preventive Medicine, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  12. Does ICT Usage Erode Routine Occupations at the Firm Level?

    Article • Labour, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Petri Böckerman

  13. The effect of weight on labor market outcomes: An application of genetic instrumental variables

    Article • Health Economics, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  14. Harsh times: do stressors lead to labor market losses?

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  15. If you drink, don't smoke: Joint associations between risky health behaviors and labor market outcomes

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  16. Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages: Evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  17. A kink that makes you sick: The effect of sick pay on absence

    Article • Journal of Applied Econometrics, March 2018, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  18. Unfit for work: Health and labour-market prospects

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  19. More skilled, better paid: labour-market returns to postsecondary vocational education

    Article • Oxford Economic Papers, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  20. Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass: Evidence from the UK and Finland

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  21. Born entrepreneurs? Adolescents’ personality characteristics and entrepreneurship in adulthood

    Article • Journal of Business Venturing Insights, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  22. Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: The case of creatine

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  23. The biometric antecedents to happiness

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2017, PLOS

    Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  24. Genetic endowments, parental resources and adult health: Evidence from the Young Finns Study

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  25. The challenges of GxE research: A rejoinder

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  26. Does higher education protect against obesity? Evidence using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Preventive Medicine, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  27. Stature and long-term labor market outcomes: Evidence using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  28. Why are jobs with "bad" characteristics associated with low wages, rather than high wages?

    Article • Manchester School, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Pekka Ilmakunnas, Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Petri Böckerman

  29. Preventing Sickness Absence With Career Management Intervention

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  30. More educated, more mobile? Evidence from post-secondary education reform

    Article • Spatial Economic Analysis, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  31. Depressive symptoms and long-term income: The Young Finns Study

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  32. Devil in disguise: Does drinking lead to a disability pension?

    Article • Preventive Medicine, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  33. Creatine and entrepreneurship

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  34. The Education-health Nexus: Fact and fiction

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  35. The serum copper/zinc ratio in childhood and educational attainment: a population-based study

    Article • Journal of Public Health, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  36. The Role of Social Ties in Explaining Heterogeneity in the Association Between Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  37. Alcohol Consumption and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

    Article • Health Economics, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  38. Relative age at school entry, school performance and long-term labour market outcomes

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  39. High involvement management and employee well-being

    Article • IZA World of Labor, January 2015, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  40. Smoking and long-term labour market outcomes

    Article • Tobacco Control, February 2014, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  41. Stature and life-time labor market outcomes: Accounting for unobserved differences

    Article • Labour Economics, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman, Professor Jari Vainiomäki

  42. Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  43. The Negative Association of Obesity with Subjective Well-Being: Is it All About Health?

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  44. Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  45. The effect of polytechnic reform on migration

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  46. Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  47. The Job Satisfaction-Productivity Nexus: A Study Using Matched Survey and Register Data

    Article • ILR Review, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  48. Who stays unwillingly in a job? A study based on a representative random sample of employees

    Article • Economic and Industrial Democracy, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  49. Institutionalisation and subjective wellbeing for old-age individuals: is life really miserable in care homes?

    Article • Ageing and Society, October 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  50. Innovative work practices and sickness absence: what does a nationally representative employee survey tell?

    Article • Industrial and Corporate Change, August 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  51. Job security and employee well-being: Evidence from matched survey and register data

    Article • Labour Economics, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  52. Globalization, creative destruction, and labour share change: evidence on the determinants and mechanisms from longitudinal plant-level data

    Article • Oxford Economic Papers, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  53. Do established health-related quality-of-life measures adequately capture the impact of chronic conditions on subjective well-being?

    Article • Health Policy, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  54. The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effect of R&D on plant productivity in Finnish manufacturing

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  55. The relationship between physical work and the height premium: Finnish evidence

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  56. Predictors of Sickness Absence and Presenteeism: Does the Pattern Differ by a Respondentʼs Health?

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, March 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  57. Labour market effects of the polytechnic education reform: The Finnish experience

    Article • Economics of Education Review, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  58. What makes you work while you are sick? Evidence from a survey of workers

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  59. Minimum Wages and Youth Employment: Evidence from the Finnish Retail Trade Sector

    Article • British Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  60. Economic inequality and population health: looking beyond aggregate indicators

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  61. Obesity and labour market success in Finland: The difference between having a high BMI and being fat

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  62. Unemployment and self-assessed health: evidence from panel data

    Article • Health Economics, February 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  63. Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  64. Alcohol consumption and sickness absence: evidence from microdata

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, October 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  65. Analysing the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  66. Interaction of working conditions, job satisfaction, and sickness absences: Evidence from a representative sample of employees

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  67. The physical strenuousness of work is slightly associated with an upward trend in the BMI

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  68. Who bears the burden of wage cuts? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, May 2007, Emerald

    Professor Petri Böckerman, Professor Jari Vainiomäki

  69. The micro-level dynamics of regional productivity growth: The source of divergence in Finland

    Article • Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  70. Polytechnic graduate placement in Finnish manufacturing

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, February 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  71. Geography of Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As): Evidence from Matched Firm-level Data

    Article • Regional Studies, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  72. Alcohol-related mortality, drinking behavior, and business cycles

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  73. Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness

    Article • Social Indicators Research, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  74. Erosion of the Ghent System and Union Membership Decline: Lessons from Finland

    Article • British Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2006, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  75. Do job disamenities raise wages or ruin job satisfaction?

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, April 2006, Emerald

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  76. Does a slump really make you thinner? Finnish micro-level evidence 1978–2002

    Article • Health Economics, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  77. Does labour market reorganization reduce unemployment?

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  78. Regional Labor Market Dynamics, Housing, and Migration

    Article • Journal of Regional Science, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  79. Perception of Job Instability in Europe

    Article • Social Indicators Research, July 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  80. Sources of Job and Worker Flows: Evidence from a Panel of Regions

    Article • Labour, March 2004, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  81. Unravelling the Mystery of Regional Unemployment in Finland

    Article • Regional Studies, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  82. Determination of Average Working Time in Finland

    Article • Labour, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  83. Labour markets in Finland during the great twentieth centuty

    Article • Scandinavian Economic History Review, May 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  84. Understanding Regional Productivity in a Nordic Welfare State: Does ICT Matter?

    Article • Studies in Regional Science, January 2002, Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International

    Professor Petri Böckerman