Event

Title Time
Book presentation
Zukunft mit Kindern. Fertilität und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
14 January 2013, Vienna/Austria

 

Conferences / Scientific Workshops

Title Time
8th European Workshop on
Labour Markets and Demographic Change
12 - 13 September 2013, Vienna/Austria
International Workshop on
Heterogenous Dynamic Models of Economic and Population Systems
25 - 26 November 2013,
Vienna/Austria
International Conference
Health, Education and Retirement over the Prolonged Life Cycle
27 – 29 November 2013, Vienna/Austria

past Conferences and Scientific Workshops here

VID Colloquium

Coordinators:    Christian Wegner-Siegmundt

Title Time Lecturer
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 2:00-3:00 pm Christoffer Johansen, University of Copenhagen
Lau Caspar Thygesen, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark
Religious Living and Chronic Diseases - The Danish Religious Societies Health Study
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:00-11:00 am

Mark D. Hayward, Population Research Center & Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

The Growing Importance of Education in Reducing Adult Mortality in the United States
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:00-11:00 am Penelope Muzanenhamo, Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick
Brand Africa and Sustainable Development: A Critical Assessment of the Role of Human Capital
Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00-05:00 pm Pieter Vanhuysse, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
Measuring Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies
Thu, 7 Mar 2013 04:00-05:00 pm

Sonja Unteregger, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg

Making the Picture Complete: A New Approach to Deconstruct the Transition to Motherhood
Tue, 5 Mar 2013 04:00-05:00 pm Natalie Nitsche, Yale University
A Couple-Perspective on Fertility Outcomes: Do Relative Resources Matter for First and Second Births in the US?
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00-11:00 am

Beata Osiewalska, Cracow University of Economics, Department of Demography

Transmission of Fertility Pattern in Mother-Daughter Relation
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:00-11:00 am

Simone Ghislandi, Università Bocconi, Milano

Do People adapt to Poverty? Evidence from the German SOEP
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:00-12:00 am Mihailo Popović, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
WIREL Revisited – Combining Contemporary Migration Studies on Orthodox Christians in Vienna with Byzantine and South East European Studies
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:00-11:00 am Emilio Zagheni, Queens College of the City University of New York
Using IP Address Geolocation to analyze International Migration and Mobility Patterns
Tue, 18 dec 2012 03:00-04:00 pm Andrea Seidl, Vienna University of Technology & Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)
Do Egalitarian Societies Boost Fertility?
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:00-11:00 am Isabella Buber-Ennser, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)
Fertility intentions of highly educated men and women and the rush hour of life
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:00- 12:00 am Dalkhat M. Ediev, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)
Comparative importance of the fertility model, the total fertility, the mean age and the standard deviation of age at childbearing in population projections
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:00-11:00 am Helene Dearing, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics and Finance
How can parental leave balance the gender division of labour? Recent empirical findings from Europe.
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:30-11:30 am Karel Neels, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Heterogeneity in demographic change: The educational gradient of ‘Second Demographic Transition’-behaviors in Europe and the US
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:00-11:00 am Stefan Schiman & Tobias Orischnig
Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance
Long term projections for the Austrian budget – an introduction to the MoF model
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:00-11:00 am Beatrice Chromková Manea &
Ladislav Rabušic

Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic)
Male Reproductive Behaviour - New Perspectives, Data and Findings
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00-18:00 Carlo G. Camarda, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany and Institut National d' Etudes D emographiques, Paris, France, Jutta Gampe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Paul H. C. Eilers, Dept. of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Modelling and decomposing vital rates: a non-parametric approach
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:00-11:00 Bruno Arpino, Universitat Pomepu Fabra, Department of Political and Social Sciences
Do ut des: Do elderly benefit from grandparenting in terms of cognitive abilities?
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:00-17:00 Jona Schellekens, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The decline in marriage in Israel: Period or cohort effect?
Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:00-17:00 John F. May, Center for Global Development, Washington DC.
World Population Policies: Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact
Wed, 4 Jul 2012 17:00-18:00 Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)
Measurement of intergenerational replacement
Thu, 3 Jul 2012 16:00-17:00 Max Haller, University of Graz
Ethnic class stratification and economic inequality. A global comparative analysis
Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00-11:00 Dimiter Philipov, Anne Goujon & Paola Di Giulio, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
Human capital-specific old-age dependency ratio: the case of Italy
Tue, 8 May 2012 16:00-17:00 Nico Keilman, University of Oslo (Norway)
Missing girls in China will lead to fewer future births than previously thought
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00-17:00 Chyong-fang Ko, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Gender-role Expectations and Fertility Rates in EU Member States
Tue, 6 March 2012 16:00-17:00 Josef Wöss, Austrian Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer Wien)
Dependency ratios in the context of demographic change. Presentation of „Dependency Ratio Calculator“
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 1000-1100 Valeria Bordone, Daniela Weber & Vegard Skirbekk, IIASA & Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
A Reversal of the Positive BMI-education Link and the Implication for Seniors’ Cognitive Abilities
Wed, 7 Dec 2011 1000-1100 Jana Vobecká, VID & Wittgenstein Centre
Demographic Avant-garde: A Historical Demography Perspective on Jews in Bohemia
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 1000-1100 Martin Karlsson , TU Darmstadt, Germany
¿Lo que no mata, engorda? The Impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic on Economic Performance in Sweden
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 1600-1700 Roland Verwiebe and Bernhard Riederer, University of Vienna, Institute of Sociology
Educational Achievements of Immigrant Students in Western Societies
Thu, 22 Nov 2011 1400-1500 Holger Strulik, Leibnitz University of Hannover, Germany
Optimal Aging and Cognitive Ability: Understanding the Education Gradient
Thu,13 Oct 2011 1615-1715 Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Computable General Equilibrium Models and Demographic Research
Tue,11 Oct 2011 1600-1700 Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Regionality and Immigration Policy
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 1100-1200 Zhongwei Zhao, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
China’s Recent Fertility Levels and Their Long-term Impacts
Wed, 28 Sept 2011 1000-1100 Andrew Noymer, University of California
What's flu got to do with it?  The payoff of influenza studies for demography
Tue, 20 Sept 2011 1000-1100 Dean Carson, Flinders University, School of Medicine, Australia
Settlements at the Edge: Modelling demographic change in the small towns of remote Australia
Tue, 5 July 2011 1000-1100 Tom Wilson, University of Queensland
Probabilistic population forecasting for subnational regions: a case study of South East Queensland, Australia
Thu, 7 July 2011 1500-1600 Bernhard Hammer, Vienna University of Technology & Joze Sambt, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics
National Transfer Accounts: An introduction to methodology, results and their application to estimate the first and second demographic dividend
Mon, 20 June 2011 1530-1630 Bill Butz, IIASA, WIC
The Intellectual Discovery of Human Capital
Thu, 17 Mai 2011 1600-1700 Maike Neumann, Darmstadt University of Technology
Do extreme temperatures redistribute mortality rates? Evidence from Germany
Thu, 17 Mai 2011 1400-1500 Yang Yang, University of North Carolina
Cohort Analysis in Demographic Research: What’s New?
Thu, 12 Mai 2011 1100-1200 Dalkhat Ediev, VID, IIASA, WIC
The Pay-As-You-Go vs Funded pension System in low-mortality countries: a demographic perspective
Thu, 21 April 2011 1100-1200 Anne Goujon, VID, IIASA, WIC
Towards a Catholic North America? Projections of religious denominations in Canada and the US up to 2060
Thu, 7 April 2011 1600-1700 George Ploubidis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dealing with unmeasured confounders in studies of health inequalities:
Tue, 22 March 2011 1400-1500 Nikola Sander, VID
Retirement Migration of the Baby Boomers in Australia: Beach, Bush or Busted?
Tue, 8 March 2011 1600-1700 Tomáš Sobotka, VID
Economic recession and fertility in the developed world
Tue, 1 March 2011 1600-1700 Junji Kageyama, Meikai University, Japan
Happiness and Sex Difference in Life Expectancy
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 1400-1500 Michael Kuhn, VID, Carsten Ochsen
University of Applied Labour Studies, Germany & MPIDR
Demographic and Geographic Determinants of Physician Supply
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 1400-1500 Setsuya Fukuda, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Changing Roles of Women’s Earnings Potential in Marriage Formation in Japan
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 1330-1430 Ceren Inan, Institut d'Études Démographiques de l'Université Bordeaux IV (IEDUB), France
Ageing of regional populations in Turkey: multi-state projections to 2060

VID Colloquia up to December 2010   here