Publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• • William Foley & Jonas Radl (forthcoming): Parenting practices and children’s cognitive effort: A laboratory study, Journal of Early Adolescence. (Link to working paper)

• • Radl, Jonas & Manuel T. Valdés (2024): Month of Birth and Cognitive Effort: A Laboratory Study of the Relative Age Effect among Fifth Graders, Social Forces, Published February 21, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae023. (Link to working paper)

• • Fernández, Juan J.,  Gema M. García Albacete, and Antonio M. Jaime Castillo & Jonas Radl (2023): “Priming or Learning? The Influence of Pension Policy Information on Individual Preferences in Germany, Spain and the United States”, Journal of European Social Policy. 33(3), 267-387.
    

• • Stadler, Gertraud, Marie Chesaniuk, Stephanie Haering, Julia Roseman, Vera Maren Straßburger, Martina Schraudner, Jonas Radl & Diversity Assessment Working Group (2023): “Diversified Innovations in the Health Sciences. Proposal for a Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS)”. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, 33(June 2023), 101072.

• • Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Bram Lancee, Edvard Nergård Larsen, Javier G. Polavieja, Radl, Jonas and Ruta Yemane (2022): “Gender discrimination in hiring. Evidence from a cross-national harmonized field experiment”, European Sociological Review, 38(3), 337–354. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcab043. [Download]

• • Radl, Jonas & Juan J. Fernández (2022): “Pension policy literacy and retirement expectations. A cross-country survey experiment.”, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 77(4), 739–749. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab161. [Download]

• • Platt, Lucinda , Javier G. Polavieja & Jonas Radl (2022): “Which integration policies work? The heterogeneous impact of national institutions on immigrants’ labor market attainment in Europe”, International Migration Review, 56(2), 343–375.  https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183211032677

• • Radl, Jonas & Luis Miller (2021): “Conceptual and Methodological Considerations on Effort: An Interdisciplinary Approach”, American Behavioral Scientist, 65(11), 1447–1456. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221996792

• • Apascaritei, Paula, Simona Demel & Jonas Radl (2021): “The Difference Between Saying and Doing: Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Effort Among Fifth Graders”, American Behavioral Scientist, 65(11), 1457–1479. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221996772

• • Salazar, Leire, Héctor Cebolla-Boado & Jonas Radl (2020): “Educational Expectations in the Great Recession: Has the Impact of Family Background Become Stronger?”, Socio-Economic Review, 18(2): 465–491. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy046. [Download]

• • Lössbroek, Jelle & Jonas Radl (2019): “Teaching older workers new tricks. Workplace practices and gender training differences in nine European countries”, Ageing & Society, 39(10): 2170-2193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1800079X . [Download]

• • Henkens, Kène; Harry van Dalen; David Ekerdt; Douglas Hershey; Martin Hyde; Jonas Radl; Hanna van Solinge; Mo Wang; Hannes Zacher (2018): “What We Need to Know about Retirement: Pressing Issues for the Coming Decade”. The Gerontologist, 58(5): 805–812. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnx095. [Download] 

• • Heisig, Jan Paul, Bram Lancee & Jonas Radl (2018): “Ethnic Inequality in Retirement Income: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant-Native Gaps in Western Europe”, Ageing & Society,  38(10): 1963-1994. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X17000332. [Download] (Friends of the WZB Award)

• • Fernández-Reino, Mariña, Jonas Radl & María Ramos (2018): “Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation?”, Social Inclusion, 6(3): 48–63 [open access]. [Download]

• • Heisig, Jan Paul & Jonas Radl (2017): “Adding Scars to Wrinkles? Long-run Effects of Late-Career Job Loss on Retirement Behavior and Personal Income”, Work, Aging & Retirement, 3(3): 257–272. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/wax006.

• • Radl, Jonas, Leire Salazar & Héctor Cebolla-Boado (2017): “Does Living in a Fatherless Household Compromise Educational Success? A Comparative Study of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills”, European Journal of Population, 33(2): 217-242 [Open Access], doi: 10.1007/s10680-017-9414-8. 

• • Cebolla-Boado, Héctor, Jonas Radl & Leire Salazar (2017): “Preschool Education as the Great Equalizer? A Cross-Country Study into the Sources of Inequality in Reading Competence”, Acta Sociologica, 60(1): 41–60.

• • Ebbinghaus, Bernhard & Jonas Radl (2015): “Pushed Out Prematurely? Comparing Objectively Forced Exits and Subjective Assessments of Involuntary Retirement across Europe”, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 41(September): 115–130, doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2015.04.001.

• • Radl, Jonas & Ralf K. Himmelreicher (2015): “The Influence of Marital Status and Spousal Employment on Retirement Behavior in Germany and Spain”, Research on Aging, 37(4): 361–387.  doi:10.1177/0164027514536403.

• • Lancee, Bram & Jonas Radl (2014): “Volunteering over the Life Course”, Social Forces, 93(2):  833–862, doi:10.1093/sf/sou090. Download pdf.

• • Bernardi, Fabrizio & Jonas Radl (2014): “The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Divorce for Children’s Educational Attainment”. Demographic Research, 30(Article 61): 1653–1680. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.61.

• • Gerber, Theodore P. & Jonas Radl (2014): “Pushed, Pulled, or Blocked? The Elderly and the Labor Market in Post-Soviet Russia”. Social Science Research, 45(May): 152–169. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.12.006.

• • Radl, Jonas (2013): “Labour Market Exit and Social Stratification in Western Europe: The Effects of Social Class and Gender on the Timing of Retirement”. European Sociological Review, 29(3): 654–668. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcs045.

• • Radl, Jonas (2013): “Why do women in Spain retire later than men?” [“¿Por qué las mujeres en España se jubilan más tarde que los hombres?”]. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 142: 109–122. doi:10.5477/cis/reis.142.133.

• • Radl, Jonas (2012): “Too Old to Work, or Too Young to Retire? The Pervasiveness of Age Norms in Western Europe”. Work, Employment & Society, 26(5): 755–771, doi: 10.1177/0950017012451644.

• • Lancee, Bram & Jonas Radl (2012): “Social Connectedness and the Transition from Work to Retirement”. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences,  67(4), 481–490.  doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbs049 . download pdf 

• • Albertini, Marco & Jonas Radl (2012): “Intergenerational Transfers and Social Class: Inter-vivos Transfers as Means of Status Reproduction?”. Acta Sociologica, 55(2), 107–123. doi:10.1177/0001699311431596. download draft version

• • Radl, Jonas (2007): “Individuelle Determinanten des Renteneintrittsalters – Eine empirische Analyse von Übergängen in den Ruhestand”, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 36(1), 43–64. download pdf

Other Journal Articles

• Cebolla-Boado, Héctor, Jonas Radl & Leire Salazar (2016): “Educational Disadvantage in a Changing Economic Context”, Annuario de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 20, 277-303.

• Radl, Jonas (2010): “Salida del mercado de trabajo y estratificación social. Los determinantes de la edad de jubilación en España”. Panorama Social, 11, 163–180. download pdf

• Radl, Jonas (2007): “Individuelle Determinanten des Renteneintrittsalters”, Wirtschaft und Statistik, 5/2007, 511–520. download pdf

• Radl, Jonas (2006): “Pfade in den Ruhestand und die Heterogenität des Renteneintrittsalters – Eine Analyse auf Datenbasis des Scientific Use Files Versichertenrentenzugang 2004 des Forschungsdatenzentrums der Rentenversicherung”,Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 9-10/2006, 641–660. download pdf

Books

• Cebolla-Boado, Héctor, Jonas Radl & Leire Salazar (2014):  Aprendizaje y ciclo vital: La desigualdad de oportunidades desde la educación preescolar hasta la edad adulta. Colección de Estudios Sociales, Núm. 39. Obra Social ”la Caixa”: Barcelona. [“la Caixa” Prize in Social Sciences].  Also available in English (Learning over the Life Course: Inequality of Opportunities in Education from Preschool to Adulthood) and Catalan (Aprenentatge i cicle vital. La desigualtat d’oportunitats des de la llar d’infants fins a l’edat adulta).

• Radl, Jonas (2013): Retirement Timing and Social Stratification: A Comparative Study of Labour Market Exit and Age Norms in Western Europe. London: Versita (De Gruyter Open).

• Requena, Miguel, Leire Salazar & Jonas Radl (2013): Estratificación social. Madrid: McGraw-Hill [Textbook on social stratification in Spanish].

• Radl, Jonas (2008): Die Sozialstruktur des Renteneintritts: Eine empirische Analyse des Übergangs in den Ruhestand zwischen Frühverrentung und Regelaltersrente. Saarbrücken: VDM.

Book Chapters

• Kröger, Lea, Alberto Palacios-Abad & Jonas Radl (forthcoming):  “Non-cognitive Skills and Intergenerational Inequality: Reviewing the Power of Personality”. In:  Jil Blanden, Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Lindsey Macmillan (Eds.). Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

• Duvvury, Nata, Jonas Radl J, E.K. Sarter, Simona Scherger & Jeroen Spijker (2020): “Policy Toolkits on Employment and Ageing: A Conceptual Framework”. In: Áine Ní Leime, Jim Ogg, Martina Rašticová, Debra Street, Clary Krekula, Monika Bédiová & Ignacio Madero-Cabib (Eds.). Extended Working Life Policies. International Gender and Health Perspectives. Cham: Springer Open, 69-83.

• Radl, Jonas & María Sánchez-Dominguez (2017): “La jubilación en España. ¿Hacía el envejecimiento activo con pensiones insuficientes?”, Informe España 2017. Madrid: Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 119-167.

• Hofäcker, Dirk & Jonas Radl (2016): “Retirement Transitions in Times of Institutional Change: Theoretical Concept”. In: Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess & Stefanie König (eds.): Delaying Retirement: Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1–21.

• Chuliá, Elisa, Luis Garrido & Jonas Radl (2016): “Ebb and Flow of Early Retirement: Pension Reform and Labour Market Participation of Older Workers in Spain”. In: Dirk Hofäcker, Moritz Hess & Stefanie König (eds.): Delaying Retirement: Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 123–146.

• Radl, Jonas & Theodore P. Gerber (2015): “Work Beyond Pension Age in Russia: Labor Market Dynamics and Job Stability in a Turbulent Economy”. In: Scherger, Simone (ed.): Paid Work Beyond Pension Age: Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 129–150.

• Radl, Jonas & Fabrizio Bernardi (2011): “Pathways into Retirement and Old-Age Inequality in Spain”. In: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz & Karin Kurz (eds.): Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 121–147.

• Requena, Miguel, Jonas Radl & Leire Salazar (2011): “Estratificación y Clases Sociales”. In: Fundación Encuentro (ed.): Informe España 2011: una interpretación de su realidad social. Fundación Encuentro: Madrid, 301–366. download pdf.

• Radl, Jonas (2008): “Zwischen Frühverrentung und Regelaltersrente: Die Sozialstruktur des Rentenzugangs”. In: Karl Siegbert Rehberg (eds.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel. CD-ROM. Opladen: Campus, 5022–5036. download pdf

• Radl, Jonas (2007): “Die Deinstitutionalisierung der Frühverrentung: Wie wir das Erwerbsleben verlängern können”. In: Max Höfer & Dieter Rath (eds.): Deutschlands wahre Superstars: 50 Entwürfe junger Wissenschaftler für die Welt von morgen. Königswinter: HEEL, 100–103.

• Radl, Jonas (2006): “Demografie und Altersgrenzen – Zur Stichprobenstruktur des Scientific Use File Versichertenzugang 2004”. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (eds.): Erfahrungen und Perspektiven – Bericht vom dritten Workshop des FDZ-RV. DRV-Schriften, Band 55. Berlin, 158–169.

• Himmelreicher, Ralf & Jonas Radl (2005): “Zusammenfassung und Ausblick auf die weitere Entwicklung des FDZ-RV”. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung (ed.): Forschungsrelevante Daten der Rentenversicherung. Bericht vom zweiten Workshop des Forschungsdatenzentrums der Rentenversicherung (FDZ-RV) vom 27. bis 29. Juni 2005 in Würzburg, DRV-Schriften Band 55, Berlin, 281–286.

Other Publications

• Radl, Jonas, Shaheen Motala-Timol, and the GYA Women in Science Working Group (2022), “Barriers to diversity among young scientists around the globe: Examining discrimination and harassment at the workplace“, In: Global Young Academy (Ed.).  GYA Connections, Issue 10. Halle (Saale), Germany: Global Young Academy at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 20-25.
  

• Radl, Jonas (2020), “Wer ist wann zu alt zum Arbeiten? Über den Beginn des Ruhestands bestimmen auch gesellschaftliche Normen”, WZB-Mitteilungen, 170, 36-38.

• Heisig, Jan Paul & Jonas Radl (2019): “Einmal raus, für immer gezeichnet? Wie sich Arbeitsplatzverluste auf die finanzielle Lage älterer Beschäftigter auswirken“, WZBrief Arbeit 22 | August 2019.

• Radl, Jonas (2019): “Die Auslese der Besten schafft keine Chancengleichheit”, in touch: Forschung und Gesellschaft, WZB Mitteilungen Nr. 163, Berlin: WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

• Lössbroek, Jelle, Jonas Radl & Izabela Warwas (2018): “Age Management: Workplace practices promoting older workers’ employability”, GenderEWL Policy Document 1, Galway: NUI Galway.

• Duvvury, Nata, Jonas Radl, Katharina Sarter, Simone Scherger & Jeoren Spijker (2016): “Understanding Policy Toolkits on Employment and Ageing: A proposal for a conceptual framework”. Working Paper. COST Action IS1409.

• Cebolla-Boado, Héctor, Radl, Jonas & Leire Salazar (2013). “Educational disadvantage in a changing economic context”. Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Working paper 2013/278. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales.

• Radl, Jonas (2007): “Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, and Dirk Hofäcker (eds.), Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in Society. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006, 383 pp” (Book Review), Sociologica, 1, 3/2007. download pdf

Dissemination/in the media

• Stern: Experiment zeigt: In “Frauenberufen” haben Männer schlechtere Bewerbungschancen, 12 November 2021
• MDR: Junge Männer werden bei Bewerbung auf Frauenberufe diskriminiert, 4 November 2021
• Die Welt: Bei Jobverlust mit Anfang 50 droht die 81.000-Euro-Lücke, 24 August 2019.
• La Vanguardia: Los Reyes se reúnen con los 20 científicos españoles de más éxito en El Pardo, 21 March 2019
• Piedras de Papel: ¿A qué edad somos demasiado mayores para trabajar?, 25 September 2018.
• Radio Nacional Radio 1: Las Mañanas de Radio Nacional. #SOCIEDAD. EL FUTURO PINTA DIFICIL PARA LOS JUBILADOS EN ESPAÑA. 12 December 2017.
• La Noche Europea de los Investigadores de Madrid 2017. 29 Septiember 2017.
• Cadena SER Madrid Sur. “La UC3M recibe casi 3 millones del Consejo Europeo de Investigación”. 15 September 2017.
• La prensa de Honduras: “La educación a temprana edad previene el fracaso escolar”. 3 November 2015.
• Politikon: “Buenas y malas noticias sobre la educación infantil”. 21 October 2015.
• Centro Virtual sobre el Envejecimiento: “El voluntariado a lo largo de la vida”. September 2015.
• El Mundo: “La educación preescolar obligatoria reduciría la desigualdad social”. 4 December 2014.
• ABC: “La clave para evitar el fracaso escolar está en preescolar y no en Secundaria”. 4 December 2014.
• European Commission (2014): “Solomonic Choice: Parental Separation, Child Well-being and Family Policies in Europe”. European Policy Brief. March 2014.
• Bernardi, Fabrizio & Jonas Radl (2014): The consequences of parental divorce for children’s university degree attainment. neodemos.it – populazione, societá e politiche. Pubblicato il 02/07/2014.
• DivulgaUNED: “En Rusia, la mayoría de las personas de 60 años cobra una pensión de jubilación”. Interview. 18 June 2014.
• 20minutos: “¿Por qué las españolas se jubilan más tarde que los hombres?”. 20minutos print and 20minutos.es. 1 July 2013.
• CincoDías: “La edad de jubilación debe subir por encima de los 67 años, según AFI”. 28 July 2010.
• Geld Idee: “Lebenslang weniger Rente”. June 2008.

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