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A new Horizon2020 grant quantifies migration scenarios for better policy
IIASA researchers from the World Population Program partner in a new European Union funded project that will have a focus on migration in Europe. More
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Longevity heterogeneity and pension design
IIASA researcher Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz will discuss redistributive effects of different pension systems by socioec... More
Latest publication
Hammer B, Spitzer S, Vargha L, & Istenič T (2020). The gender dimension of intergenerational transfers in Europe. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 15: e100234. DOI:10.1016/j.jeoa.2019.100234.
Research projects
Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies
This project aims to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories and their determinants, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions. More
Demography and Education in Niger: A Prospective Analysis
This project aims to project the population of Niger by age, gender, education, ethnicity, and region according to different scenarios. More
Forecasting Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
This project is testing the basic hypothesis that societies can develop the most effective long-term defense against the dangers of climate change by strengthening human capacity - primarily through education. More
Future Migration Scenarios for Europe
The project will focus on understanding the patterns, motivations and modalities of migration at multiple geographical scales, from international through regional to the local, and on imagining possible futures. More
Human Capital and Economic Performance
By including educational attainment as demographic dimension in addition to age and sex, the message derived from the Demographic Dividend Model changes for describing the effect of demographic change on economic growth. More
IIASA-JRC Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration
The Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration is a research partnership between IIASA's World Population Program and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre that provides science-based knowledge on migration and demography to support EU policy. More
Population Dynamics and Global Human Capital
The Population and Human Capital project aims to more fully understand the dynamics of an improving educational composition of the population and to demonstrate the long-term implications of near-term investments in education. More
Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
The overarching aim of this project is to produce comprehensive, multi-perspective and robust quantitative migration scenarios to support various areas of European migration policy, based on the cutting-edge developments in conceptualising, explaining, estimating and forecasting migration. More
Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective
The Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective (Re-Aging) project will develop new approaches to the study of age and aging that are appropriate for 21st century conditions. More
The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing
This project aims to develop new indicators for long-term human wellbeing that include feedbacks from environmental and other changes. It is funded through an ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Wolfgang Lutz. More
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