Richard Gisser
Info
Research Group: Demography of Austria
Job Title: Deputy Director and Research Group Leader
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7704
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: richard.gisser@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- Studies in Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Vienna
Professional Career
- 1964-1969 Researcher at the Austrian Institute for Regional Planning (main topic: population).
- 1969-2002 Staff member of Statistics Austria; 1969-1984 Head of Vital Statistics Section; 1985-2001 Head of Population Statistics Division; 2001-2002 Deputy Director, Population and Social Statistics Directorate.
- 1988-2001 Teaching of Demography at the University of Vienna.
- Since 1977 Austrian Member of the European Population Commitee of the Council of Europe.
- Since 1977 Functions at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: 1977-1987 Head if the Section Applied Demographic Research, 1987-1990 and 1993-2001 Director, 1990-1992 and since 2002 Deputy Director and Research Group Leader Demography of Austria.
Research Interests
- Demographic and social statistics
- Historical demography of Austria
- Demographic trends and projections
- Fertility and population policy
Selected Publications
- Gisser, Richard. 2000. New Migration Flow Statistics in Austria (Methods, Problems and Outcomes). Working Paper for the Joint ECE/EUROSTAT Work Session on Migration Statistics, Geneva, 8-10 May 2000.
- Gisser, Richard. 1990. Wirkungen geburtenfördernder Maßnahmen. In: Gisser, Richard, Ludwig Reiter. Helmuth Schattovits and Liselotte Wilk. Eds. Lebenswelt Familie. Wien: 641-647.
- Gisser, Richard. 1986. Vorausschätzung der Haushalte nach Größe und Bundesländern bis 2015. Statistische Nachrichten 41(5): 378-383.
- Höhn, Charlotte, Karl Martin Bolte, Richard Gisser, Jürg A. Hauser and Ralf Hußmanns. 1987. Mehrsprachiges Demographisches Wörterbuch, Deutschsprachige Fassung. Schriftenreihe des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung, Sonderband 16. Boppard am Rhein.
- Gisser, Richard. 1979. Daten zur Bevölkerungsentwicklung der österreichischen Alpenländer 1819-1913. In: Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979. Beiträge zur österreichischen Statistik in Österreich, Heft 550: 403-424, und Tabellenanhang (Beiträge Heft 550a): 23-31. Wien: Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt.