Vacancy: Tenure-Track Professorship for the field of Demography and Human Capital Formation

3 FEB 2020

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At the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna the position of a

Tenure-Track Professorship
for the field of
Demography and Human Capital Formation
 

(full-time position) is to be filled.

This tenure track professor focuses on the analysis of human capital formation covering the methods of formal demography and demographic modelling. While a special focus on the demographic analysis of educational attainment is preferred, human capital formation also includes fertility and immigration. Topics should be covered in broad international perspective.

Reference no.: 10537

The application deadline is 18.03.2020.

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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 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.