Guy Abel
Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Guy Abel joined the IIASA World Population (POP) Program as a Research Scholar in November 2011. His research focuses on techniques for estimating migration patterns and applying statistical methods to better forecast components of population change. He is also the leader of the International Migration research group at the Asian Demographic Research Institute and Professor in the School of Sociology and Political Sciences at Shanghai University. He received China's National 1000 Expert Award for Young Professionals in 2017 and Shanghai's 1000 Foreign Expert Award in 2015.Previously he worked at the Vienna Institute of Demography, the ESRC Centre for Population Change and S3RI at the University of Southampton.
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Last update: 13 MAY 2020
Publications
Gaskin, T. & Abel, G. (2025). Deep learning four decades of human migration: datasets. 10.5281/zenodo.17344747.
Chi, G., Abel, G. , Johnston, D., Giraudy, E., & Bailey, M. (2025). Measuring global migration flows using online data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (18) e2409418122. 10.1073/pnas.2409418122.
Ha, J.T., DeWaard, J., Abel, G. , Tsuchiya, K., Pinchoff, J., Levesque, C., & Price, K. (2025). The Globalization of International Migration? A Conceptual and Data‐Driven Synthesis. Population and Development Review 51 (1) 421-448. 10.1111/padr.12686.
Hoffmann, R., Abel, G. , Malpede, M., Muttarak, R. , & Percoco, M. (2024). Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide. Nature Climate Change 14 1245-1253. 10.1038/s41558-024-02165-1.
Kluge, L., Olaya Bucaro, O. , K.C., S., Yildiz, D. , Abel, G. , & Schewe, J. (2024). A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections. Demographic Research 51 323-376. 10.4054/DemRes.2024.51.11.