News
Age, gender and COVID-19 infections
27 MAY 2020
A new preprint by Tomas Sobotka et al. shows that in ten European countries women of working age are more likely to be infected with COVID-19 than men.
More
Corresponding Research Areas: Family and Fertility, Health and Longevity, Population, Environment and Sustainable Development
Redistributive effects of different pension systems when longevity varies by socioeconomic status
13 MAY 2020
Sanchez-Romero et al. find that socioeconomic group-specific life tables are needed for restoring the progressivity of pension systems.
More
Corresponding Research Areas: Population Economics
Why especially young people are affected by the COVID-19 crisis
12 MAY 2020
Economically seen, young adults are the most vulnerable group. (Interview with Bernhard Binder-Hammer in German)
More
Corresponding Research Areas: Population Economics
The COVID-19 epidemic intensifies existing inequalities
12 MAY 2020
Population groups are hit to various degrees by the COVID-19 crisis. (Interview with Erich Striessnig in German)
More
Corresponding Research Areas: Population, Environment and Sustainable Development
A new approach to measuring inequalities in development
30 APR 2020
A new study by S. Scherbov and S. Gietel-Basten systematically explored the use of the Human Life Indicator as a means of measuring progress in development.
More
ERC Proof of Concept grant for Sergei Scherbov
28 APR 2020
This project will explore how to make pension policies more equitable and ensure new measures of population ageing are up-to-date.
More
Vacancy: Two postdoc positions - Deadline 04.05.2020
14 APR 2020
The Department of Demography of the University of Vienna (part of the Wittgenstein Centre) is looking for two postdocs to join the team.
More
COVID-19 customized charts & data: New website to analyse the pandemic worldwide
7 APR 2020
Compare the development of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world and create customized charts.
More
WIC researchers demand data access
6 APR 2020
Open letter by Austrian scientists to Health Minister Rudolf Anschober.
More
Vacancy: Tenure-Track Professorship for the field of Demography and Human Capital Formation
3 FEB 2020
This position is to be filled at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna. Deadline: 18 March 2020.
More
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).
