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
Hoffmann, R., Abel, G. , Malpede, M., Muttarak, R. , & Percoco, M. (2024). Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide. Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-024-02165-1. (In Press)
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.
Yildiz, D. , Wiśniowski, A., Abel, G. , Weber, I., Zagheni, E., Gendronneau, C., & Hoorens, S. (2024). Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union. International Migration Review 10.1177/01979183241249969.
K.C., S., Dhakad, M., Potančoková, M. , Adhikari, S., Yildiz, D. , Mamolo, M., Sobotka, T., Zeman, K., Abel, G. , Lutz, W. , & Goujon, A. (2024). Updating the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) Global Population and Human Capital Projections. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-003
Yildiz, D. & Abel, G. (2024). Migration flows by age, sex and educational attainment. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-001