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

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Fiorio, L., Zagheni, E., Abel, G. , Hill, J., Pestre, G., Letouzé, E., & Cai, J. (2021). Analyzing the Effect of Time in Migration Measurement Using Georeferenced Digital Trace Data. Demography (891763) 10.1215/00703370-8917630.

Yildiz, D. & Abel, G. (2021). Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability. In: Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology. pp. 29-41 Elgar. ISBN 978 1 83910 060 4 10.4337/9781839100611.00011.

K.C., S., Lutz, W. , Potančoková, M. , Abel, G. , Barakat, B., Eder, J., Goujon, A. , Jurasszovich, S., Reiter, C. , Sobotka, T., Speringer, M., Striessnig, E. , Wurzer, M., Yildiz, D. , Yoo, S.H., & Zeman, K. (2020). Global population and human capital projections for Shared Socioeconomic Pathways – 2015 to 2100, Revision-2018.

Abel, G. & Gietel-Basten, S. (2020). International remittance flows and the economic and social consequences of COVID-19. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52 (8) 1480-1482. 10.1177/0308518X20931111.

Gendronneau, C., Wiśniowski, A., Yildiz, D. , Zagheni, E., Fiorio, L., Hsiao, Y., Stepanek, M., Weber, I., Abel, G. , & Hoorens, S. (2019). Measuring Labour Mobility and Migration Using Big Data:. European Commission , Brussels.