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How can migration, workforce participation, and education balance the cost of aging in Europe?
New IIASA research shows that higher levels of education and increasing workforce participation in both migrant and local populations are needed to compensate for the negative economic impacts of aging populations in EU countries. More
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IIASA at the PAA Annual Meeting 2020
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Sanchez-Romero Miguel & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz A (2020). The Impact of Reducing the Pension Generosity on Inequality and Schooling. De Economist DOI:10.1007/s10645-020-09359-w.
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
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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