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Is half the world’s population really below ‘replacement-rate’?
3 DEC 2019
In a new paper published in PLOS one, Stuart Gietel-Basten and Sergei Scherbov try to answer this question.
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Vacancy: University Assistant (prae doc) position at the Department of Demography
2 DEC 2019
This position is to be filled at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna. Deadline: 22 December 2019.
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Informing better policies for an aging population
29 NOV 2019
A new book by Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov published with Harvard University Press offers an opportunity to rethink how we define and measure aging.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Forecasting and Ageing
Science into public policy: UN and UK use WIC research on population aging
26 NOV 2019
WIC research on population aging is increasingly being accepted and used in the international scientific and public policy community.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Forecasting and Ageing, Health and Longevity
A new Horizon2020 grant explores the patterns, motivations and modalities of migration
25 NOV 2019
WIC researchers partner in a new European Union funded project that will have a focus on future migration in Europe.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Human Capital Data Lab, Migration: Drivers and Impacts
Vacancy: Tenure-Track Professorship for the field of Demography and Sustainable Development
21 NOV 2019
This position is to be filled at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna. Deadline: 7 January 2020.
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Congratulations! Judith Kohlenberger, Isabella Buber-Ennser & Bernhard Rengs have received the Kurt-Rothschild-Award 2019
13 NOV 2019
They were awarded for their "Displaced Persons in Austria Survey (DiPAS): Education, Qualifications and Moral Concepts of Refugees in Austria."
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Congratulations! The poster award ceremony at Wittgenstein Centre's annual conference
13 NOV 2019
For the first time in the history of the Conference the two best evaluated posters of both poster sessions were awarded.
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Improving governance is key for adaptive capacity
28 OCT 2019
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Raya Muttarak and colleagues published a new study in Nature Sustainability .
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The long arm of childhood conditions
23 OCT 2019
In this new study published in PLOS one, Nadia Steiber explores if the long arm of childhood conditions only become visible later in life.
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The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Department of Demography of the University of Vienna, the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (VID/ÖAW).
