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Human Capital and Global Population Dynamics

Thursday, 14 July 2016: 10:45-12:15
Location: Elise Richter Saal (Main Building)
RC41 Sociology of Population (host committee)

Language: English

The Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) combines innovative methodological work with empirical analysis in demography with a focus on comparative European population studies. The Institute is embedded in the structure of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and forms one of the three pillars of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (WIC). The WIC aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and global 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. 
The research of WIC is structured into four broad research themes that together form a coherent and comprehensive research agenda. These four themes focus on human capital formation and depletion, on modelling, and on studying the interactions with the social, economic and natural environment.
The current session will present a selection of the work undertaken at VID, with special reference to the research undertaken within these research themes.

INVITED SESSION NOT OPEN FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION.
Session Organizer:
Marc LUY, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Austria
Posters:
Education and Fertility in Europe: Stylized Facts, Expected and Surprising Findings
Tomáš SOBOTKA, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; Caroline BERGHAMMER, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; Zuzanna BRZOZOWSKA, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; Anna MATYSIAK, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Austria; Natalie NITSCHE, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Austria; Maria Rita TESTA, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
The Effect of Increasing Human Capital on Increasing Life Expectancy: A Demographic Decomposition
Marc LUY, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Austria; Marina ZANNELLA, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Austria; Yuka M. SUGAWARA, Sophia University Tokyo, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Japan; Christian WEGNER-SIEGMUNDT, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; Graziella CASELLI, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Statistical Sciences, Italy
Modeling Past and Future Global Population By Levels of Education
Anne GOUJON, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; Michaela POTANCOKOVA, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; Markus SPERINGER, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Interactions of Population Trends with the Social, Economic and Natural Environment
Wolfgang LUTZ, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria