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Thursday, 24. September 2020 in Publications
New publication in Social Policy Administration (2020)
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Thursday, 19. December 2019
The latest issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research on "Population Ageing and Intergenerational Redistribution" is available online now. This special issue of the VYPR contains research articles derived from the EU-funded AGENTA project.
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"Who pays for the consumption of young and old?"
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...at the World Economic Forum & The Independent
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Tuesday, 12. June 2018 in Publications Book Chapter
Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Stefan Wrzaczek, Alexia Prskawetz and Gustav Feichtinger investigate in this article the effect of demography on wealth inequality.
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Thursday, 15. February 2018
Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances.
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Wednesday, 31. January 2018
Tanja Istenic, AGENTA team at UL, successfully defended her PhD theses on "The National Transfer Accounts Analysis of Economic Dependency over the Life Cycle" (University of Ljubljana).
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Tuesday, 5. December 2017
'The Broken Generational Contract in Europe: Generous Transfers to the Elderly Population, Low Investments in Children' by Bernhard Hammer, Tanja Istenic and Lili Vargha won third place of the 2016/17 Demography Prize of the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations!
The paper illustrates and quantifies intergenerational transfer flows in 16 EU countries using National Transfer Accounts data. In particular, it measures the agespecific value of transfers within households, including services ...
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Thursday, 16. November 2017
The AGENTA Project Brochure summarizes selected results of the AGENTA project. It includes a description of results from the European National Transfer Accounts (Chapter 1) and the National Time Transfer Accounts (Chapter 2); an analysis and description of retirement patterns across EU countries (Chapter 3); a description of transfer-regimes in Europe (Chapter 4); a simulation and projection of public transfers in the past and the future (Chapter 5), a discussion of indicators of sustainability and ...
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Tuesday, 7. November 2017
"Is it men or women who pay for the kids? The gendered division in the contributions to childbearing and implications for fertility" by Lili Vargha, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute; Gretchen Donehower, UC Berkeley; Tanja Istenic, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, won the Best Poster Award of Day 4!
IUSSP Conference 2017
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Thursday, 19. October 2017
The AGENTA Final Conference: Economic Consequences of Population Ageing and Intergenerational Equity including NT(T)A Workshop will take place from 20-22 November in Vienna, Austria. The Conference Agenda can be found here!
AGENTA Final Conference20-22 November 2017
Venue Conference 20-21 Nov. 2017: Sigmund Freud University Ceremonial Hall Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
Venue NT(T)A Workshop 22 Nov. 2017: Campus WU, LC building Ceremonial Hall 1 Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
The European population ...
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Thursday, 19. October 2017
Miguel Sanchez-Romero and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz investigate the differential impact that pension systems have on the labor supply and the accumulation of physical and human capital for individuals that differ by their learning ability and levels of life expectancy. Using a general equilibrium model populated by overlapping generations, in which all population groups interact through the pension system, the labor market, and the capital market, they show that the increasing gap in life expectancy ...
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Changes in economic activity: The role of age and education.
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Household production and consumption over the life cycle: National Time Transfer Accounts in 14 European countries
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Call for papers open now!
Deadline for submission: 30 June 2017!
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