Teemu Kemppainen

• Doctor of Social Sciences
• PostDoc Position at University of Helsinki

This study investigates workers' preferences for expanding training and education at the cost of reducing unemployment benefits in the context of budgetary trade‐offs. It focuses on non‐standard employment types at the individual level and the ratios of expenditures on training and unemployment benefits within labour market policies (LMPs) at the c...

Belonging is a fundamental human experience that plays a critical role in shaping individuals' connections to their communities. Establishing a sense of belonging to a destination society can be particularly challenging for older migrants. Neighbourhood factors and the broader regional context may influence one's sense of belonging to various commu...

Migrant mortality advantage is established in various studies, but there is a lack of evidence on migrant mortality trends in old age. Previous studies have primarily concentrated on all-cause mortality, and few include older age groups. Discussions about the migrant mortality advantage continue due to concerns about data availability and accuracy....

So far, little attention has been paid to contextual factors shaping loneliness and their interaction with individual characteristics. Moreover, the few existing studies have not included older migrants, identified as a group who are vulnerable to loneliness. This study examined the association between neighbourhood ethnic density (the proportion o...

This analysis makes an empirical enquiry into urban-rural and regional value differences in Europe. In this task we use the 7th Round of the European Social Survey (ESS) and Eurostat's NUTS-level data and focus on four value orientations derived from the Human Values Scale: Self-enhancement, Self-transcendence, Openness to change and Conservation....

In this article, we contribute to recent debates on the geographies of discontent by examining the implications of urbanisation on the state as a territorial-political community in the European context. Building on an Arendtian conception of politics, we argue that the emergence of the 'urban' as a dominant spatio-political imaginary has led to a n...

Abstract Background In older adults, including those with a migrant background, ill health is associated with less internet use. However, it is not known what are the specific self-perceived barriers to internet use among older migrants with different health conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between different hea...

This study examines the association between digital information technology (DIT) use and the utilization of transnational healthcare (THC) in older migrants, and investigates how this relationship depends on social integration or perceived discrimination in health services in the destination country. The data from a population-based study conducted...

In this article, we contribute to recent debates on the geographies of discontent by examining the implications of urbanisation on the state as a territorial‐political community in the European context. Building on an Arendtian conception of politics, we argue that the emergence of the ‘urban’ as a dominant spatio‐political imaginary has led to a n...

Prior literature suggests that, among the so-called ‘developed economies’, residing in urban contexts is associated with lower life satisfaction. Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and Eurostat, we contribute to this literature by focusing on three different indicators of urbanity (subjective domicile, population density and living in...

Health and wellness–related travel, also known as medical tourism, is a topical phenomenon with a wide range of effects in both local and transnational contexts. This scoping study examines the literature on this phenomenon from the perspective of travelers. The literature search was conducted using three databases (EBSCOhost, Web of Science, and S...

Our understanding of the lived experience of transnationalism is limited by the scarcity of high-quality quantitative evidence. Representative evidence on the emotional and identification aspects of transnationalism is especially missing. To address this gap, we investigated the transnational involvement of three migrant groups – Somali, Kurdish an...

A recent qualitative study of the highest income per mille in Finland showed that the wealthiest segment of society considers the welfare state to be costly, inefficient and demoralizing (Kantola & Kuusela 2019). On the basis of Finnish data from the European Social Survey 2008 (n=2,195) and 2016 (n=1, 925), we examine the extent to which the conne...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have found that in general, in older adults, poor health is associated with a lower likelihood of Internet use, but it is not well known how different indicators of health are associated with different types of digital information technology (DIT) use. Moreover, little is known about the relationship between health and t...

Background Previous studies have found that in general, poor health is associated with a lower likelihood of internet use in older adults, but it is not well known how different indicators of health are associated with different types of digital information technology (DIT) use. Moreover, little is known about the relationship between health and th...

Recent sociological discussions have examined the classic theme of social integration from the point of view of belonging and multiple solidarities. As a research topic, migration importantly elucidates these general sociological questions. Literature on migration, integration and transnationalism lacks an encompassing theoretical model, which limi...

Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa täydentävien ja vaihtoehtoisten hoitojen käyttöä Suomessa vuosina 2008 ja 2018. Täydentävillä ja vaihtoehtoisilla hoidoilla tarkoitetaan monimuotoista joukkoa erilaisia hoitomuotoja, joita ei tietyssä historiallisessa ja yhteiskunnallisessa tilanteessa pidetä valtavirtalääkinnän osana eikä niitä ole integroitu terve...

Involuntary staying, or a desire to move without the possibility to do so, is an under-studied topic. In this study, we examine involuntary staying among the residents of post-Second World War Finnish housing estates; we study its frequency, association with self-rated health and role in the relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and self-...

The contingent of large housing estates built in the 1960s and 1970s accounts for almost a half of all high-rises in Finland. The primary ideology in their genesis was to combine industrially prefabricated urban housing development with the surrounding forest landscape—together with a policy of spatial social mixing—to prevent social disorder and s...

Social disorder in the neighbourhood, such as threatening behaviour, vandalism or public intoxication, has been found to increase feelings of insecurity (Brunton-Smith/Sturgis 2011; Kemppainen et al. 2014) and expose residents to health problems (Steptoe/Feldman 2011). Disorder may also shape moving intentions and behaviour in ways that deepen segr...

Aims: The aim of this research was to study health-related and sociodemographic determinants of the use of different complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments in Europe and differences in CAM use in various European countries. Methods: The study was based on a design-based logistic regression analysis of the European Social Survey...

Aims: The objective of this study was to elucidate the utilisation of Russian health care by immigrants of Russian origin living in Finland (cross-border health care). The study examined the association of cross-border health care with social integration and discrimination. Moreover, it studied whether cross-border health care was used as an alter...

Life satisfaction is an understudied topic in literature on socio-economic stratification. Using the European Social Survey data, this study concentrates on the recent economic recession in Ireland, and the socio-economic stratification of life satisfaction before and during economic crisis. We measure stratification multidimensionally using educat...

Studies on post-World War II housing estates have largely focused on problematic neighbourhoods, and there is a scarcity of literature on housing estates across their entire social scale. Moreover, there is insufficient evidence on the extent to which tenure structure differentiates estates from each other in terms of social disorder. Using a large...

Life satisfaction is an understudied topic in literature on socio-economic stratification. Using the European Social Survey data, this study concentrates on the recent economic recession in Ireland, and the socio-economic stratification of life satisfaction before and during economic crisis. We measure stratification multidimensionally using educat...

This study examines the cross-sectional association of three value orientations (self-direction, achievement and power) and level of gross domestic product (GDP) in 289 NUTS regions. Regional value aggregates, drawn from Schwartz’s Human Value Scale included in the European Social Survey, are taken to indicate value-based human capital. Regression...

Invited presentation at the seminar of Statistics, University of Helsinki, 16th Feb 2016.

Deindustrialisation has severely hit Finnish suburban housing estates of the 1960s and 1970s, and socioeconomic differences between neighbourhoods have increased. The social disorgan-isation theory suggests that neighbourhood disadvantage is a risk factor for problems related to social order. This article compares perceptions of social disorder in...

Most of the aggregate-level analyses of the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to the measures of national gross domestic product (GDP) and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS (Nomenclature des Unités Territoriales...

The paper examines a Finnish survey that takes advantage of explicit stratification. The strat-ification is of special kind due to its dual nature. The first is a standard municipality-based stratification while the second takes advantage of the grid database in which the grid size is 250 metres by 250 metres. The objective of grid stratification i...

Spatiaalista mallinnusta pistedatalla: kyselypohjainen analyysi koetusta terveydestä ja turvattomuudesta Helsingin metropolialueella Tässä menetelmäartikkelissa esitellään spatiaalisten mallien soveltamista sosiaalitieteellisessä kyselytutkimuksessa. Havainnollistavina esimerkkeinä käytetään koettua terveyttä ja koettua turvattomuutta Helsingin met...