Thomas Fent
Info
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7715
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: thomas.fent@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- Studies of Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology
- Completion 1997 (Dipl.-Ing.)
- PhD in Technical Mathematics in 2001 at the Vienna University of Technology
Professional Career
- 1990 - 1991: FAG Austria AG
- 1994 - 1997: Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems Theory
- 1997 - 2001: University of Vienna, Institute of Management Science
- Since 2001 Research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Research Interests
- Economics of ageing
- Ageing, economic productivity, and economic growth
- Workforce ageing and human capital investment
- Labour markets in ageing economies
- Human resource managemet
- Social networks and social interactions
- Social norms and social interactions
- Social influences on fertility decisions
- Social influences on union formation
- Family formation and social networks
- Modelling methods
- Macroecnomic modelling
- Agent based models
- Microsimulations
- Estimation and validation of agent based models
- Decomposition of demographic or demoeconomic data
- Econometric estimations
Selected Publications
- Prskawetz, Alexia and Thomas Fent. (forthcoming). Workforce Ageing and the Substitution of Labour: The Role of Supply and Demand of Labour in Austria. Metroeconomica.
- Billari, Francesco C., Alexia Prskawetz, Belinda Aparicio Diaz, and Thoams Fent. (forthcoming). The "Wedding-Ring": An Agent-Based Marriage Model Based on Social Interaction. Demographic Research.
- Fent, Thomas. 2006. Counting (on) an Ageing Population. Computing in Science and Engineering 8(6): 88-96.
- Aparicio Diaz, Belinda and Thomas Fent. 2006. An Agent Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms. In Billari, Francesco C., Thomas Fent, Alexia Prskawetz, and Jürgen Scheffran. (eds.): Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences, Springer-Verlag: 85-116.
- Prskawetz, A.; Zagaglia, B.; Fent, T.; Skirbekk, V. (2005). Decomposing the change in labour force indicators over time. Demographic Research 13(7), pp.163-188.
- Fent, Thomas, Gustav Feichtinger, and Gernot Tragler. 2002. A Dynamic Game of Offending and Law Enforcement. International Game Theory Review 4(1): 71-89.
- Fent, Thomas, Gustav Feichtinger, and M. Zalesak. 1999 Optimal Offending in View of the Offender's Criminal Record, Central European Journal of Operations Research 7(2): 111-127.
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