Tomáš Sobotka
Info
Research Group: Comparative European Demography
Job Title:Research Group Leader
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7716
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: tomas.sobotka@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- 1993 - 1998: BA in Demography & Social Geography, MA in Demography at the Charles University, Prague, completed in September 1998
- 2000-2004 PhD research in Demography at the Population Research Centre, University of Groningen (the Netherlands); PhD awarded with distinction “Cum laude” in November 2004
- 2005-2006 International Max Planck Research School for Demography, Rostock, Germany (2005/06)
Professional Career
- Since 2011 team leader ("Human Reproduction"), Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
- In 2004-2010 managing editor of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
- Since July 2004 Research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Project co-director, Human Fertility Database (together with V. Shkolnikov and J. R. Goldstein)
Research Interests
- Postponement of childbearing and very low fertility in industrialised countries
- Demography of Central and Eastern Europe
- Second demographic transition
- Changes in living arrangements and fertility
- Childlessness
- Assisted reproduction
- Migration and fertility
- Fertility projections
Selected Publications
- Sobotka, T., V. Skirbekk, and D. Philipov. 2011. "Economic recession and fertility in the developed world." Population and Development Review 37(2): 267-306.
Online version
Press release - Goldstein, J. R., T. Sobotka, and A. Jasilioniene. 2009. “The end of lowest-low fertility?“ Population and Development Review 35(4): 663-700.
Online version
Working paper
- Sobotka, T. and W. Lutz. 2009. "Misleading Policy Messages from the Period TFR: Should We Stop Using It?" European Demographic Research Papers 4. Vienna: Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Online Version
- Sobotka, T. 2008. “The diverse faces of the second demographic transition in Europe.” Overview Chapter 6 in: T. Frejka, T. Sobotka, J. M. Hoem, and L. Toulemon (eds.) Childbearing trends and policies in Europe. Demographic Research, Special Collection 7, Vol. 19, Article 8, pp. 171-224. Online Version
- Sobotka, T. 2008. “The rising importance of migrants for childbearing in Europe.” Overview Chapter 7 in: T. Frejka, T. Sobotka, J. M. Hoem, and L. Toulemon (eds.) Childbearing trends and policies in Europe. Demographic Research, Special Collection 7, Vol. 19, Article 9, pp. 225-248. Online Version
- Sobotka, T., M. A. Hansen, T. K. Jensen, A. T. Pedersen, W. Lutz, and N. E. Skakkebæk. 2008. “The contribution of assisted reproduction to completed fertility: An analysis of Danish data.” Population and Development Review 34(1): 79–101.
- Frejka, T., T. Sobotka, J. M. Hoem and L. Toulemon (eds.) 2008. Childbearing Trends and Policies in Europe. Demographic Research, Special Collection 7, Vol. 19, Articles 1-29, pp. 1-1178.
Online Version - Sobotka, T. 2008. “Does persistent low fertility threaten the future of European populations?” In: J. Surkyn, P. Deboosere and J. van Bavel and (eds.) Demographic challenges for the 21st Century. A state of art in demography. Brussels: VUBPRESS, pp. 27-89.
pdf Version
Sobotka, T. 2004. Postponement of childbearing and low fertility in Europe. Doctoral thesis, University of Groningen. Dutch University Press, Amsterdam, xiv + 298 pp.
- Sobotka, T. 2004. “Is lowest-low fertility in
Europe explained by the postponement of
childbearing?” Population and Development Review
30(2): 195-220. Online version
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Data collections (co-authorship, participation)
- Human Fertility Database (co-director)
- Geburtenbarometer (Monthly Estimates of Fertility in Austria, in German)
- Detailed database of period & cohort fertility in Austria
- European Demographic Data Sheet 2006 and 2008