Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
Research Scholar
Economic Frontiers Program
Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz holds a doctorate in mathematical economics from the Vienna University of Technology, as well as a second doctorate (Habilitation) in population economics and applied econometrics from the same University. She is professor at the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics at TU Wien, deputy director at the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and one of the four directors of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna). She is working in the field of the economics of population and individual ageing, long run economic growth, agent based models and environmental economics. She has published numerous articles in refereed scientific journals and edited special issues of economic and demographic journals.Dr. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz joined the World Population (POP) Program in July 2013, to work on models of the interrelationship between population, the economy and environment. Since 2021 she continues her work in the Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW) Research Group, in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program.
Last update: 29 MAR 2021
Publications
Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, A., Mahlberg, B., & Skirbekk, V. (2007). Demographic structure and firm productivity in Austria. Wirtschaftspolitische Blaetter 54 (4) 595-608.
Prskawetz, A., Mahlberg, B., & Skirbekk, V. (2007). Firm productivity, work-force age and educational structure in Austrian industries in 2001. In: Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy. Eds. Clark, R., Ogawa, N., & Mason, A., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781847200990
Mahlberg, B., Prskawetz, A., & Skirbekk, V. (2007). Labor productivity and workforce age in Austrian ICT manufacturing and service sectors. In: The Impact of Ageing: A Common Challenge for Europe and Asia. Eds. Sinigoj, G., Jones, G., Hirokawa, K., & Linhart, S., Vienna: LIT Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8258-0713-9
Skirbekk, V., Kohler, H.-P., & Prskawetz, A. (2006). The marginal effect of school leaving age on demographic events. A contribution to the discussion on causality. In: Education and Postponement of Maternity: Economic Analyses for Industrialized Countries. Eds. Gustafsson, S. & Kalwij, A., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. 10.1007/1-4020-4716-9_3.
Prskawetz, A., Zagaglia, B., Fent, T., & Skirbekk, V. (2005). Decomposing the change in labour force indicators over time. Demographic Research 13 (7) 163-188. 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.7.