Research Group Leader:

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

We are investigating the economic determinants and consequences of changes in population structure and dynamics. Our group carries out research into these complex processes using advanced methods drawn from several disciplines.


Latest Publications:

Redistributive effects of pension reforms: who are the winners and losers?
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Population Growth and Automation Density: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence
Health determinants among refugees in Austria and Germany: A propensity-matched comparative study for Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi refugees
What is the optimal intensity for a lockdown and how should it vary over the course of an epidemic?
Health and Economic Growth
Access to health care, medical progress and the emergence of the longevity gap: A general equilibrium analysis

Projects

LEDA - Ageing workers in the Austrian labour market - Linked Employer-employee Data Analysis

SUSTAINWELL - Sustainable Welfare: Rethinking the roles of Family, Market and State

RIWAG - Reducing Inequality Within and Across Generations

AWA - Age Well Accounts – Wellbeing from a Life Course Perspective (Joint Programming Initiative: "More Years, Better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change")

Life Shocks - Life-cycle behaviour in the face of large shocks to health (Stand-alone research project (P 30665 –G27) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF))

AGENTA - Ageing Europe - An application of national Transfer Accounts for Explaining and Projecting Trends in Public Finances (7th Framework Programme (FP7))

MEDPRO - 'Medical Progress, Health Expenditure and Population Ageing' is a stand-alone research project (P 26184-G11) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

FAMSOC - Changing Families and Sustainable Societies (FAMSOC) (EU-FP 7)