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Doing better for families
Held annually on 15th May, the International Day of Families (IDF) was established by the United Nations (UN) in 1993 (A/RES/47/237) to raise awareness among policymakers, experts and the general public of the problems and needs faced by families around the world and of effective ways of meeting those needs. This year, the UN highlights the vital role…
The first-ever EU Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness
The European Day of Solidarity between Generations, which is celebrated today, 29th April, is a great opportunity to highlight the importance of understanding and cooperation among different age groups in building a fair and sustainable society and addressing an ageing population. SUSTAINWELL will contribute to that by analysing the structural changes needed on welfare states policies –…
Life course heterogeneity and the future labour force: A dynamic microsimulation analysis for Austria
Using Austria as a case study, this paper demonstrates how capturing life course heterogeneity improves the accuracy and policy relevance of socio-demographic projections, and how considering this population heterogeneity impacts labour force dynamics and economic dependency ratios. The authors introduce and apply the microsimulation model microDEMS, focusing on education, migration background, health and labour market…
NTA help to foster a better balance between family, market and government in approaching welfare
SUSTAINWELL coordinator, Prof. Cio Patxot and researchers, Gemma Abio (UB), Guadalupe Souto (UAB), Robert Gal (HDRI) and Bernhard Binder-Hammer (OEAW) attended last week the 15th Global NTA Meeting on Population and the Generational Economy. SUSTAINWELL researchers participated and presented their research in: The project coordinator was also invited to partake in the Bridging NTA to National Inclusion Accounts…
Gender income gap in the EU
The ILO has estimated that the gender income gap – which is the ratio of women’s to men’s labour income – is 62,3% in 2024 and has only changed minimally over the last decade. Source: Own elaboration based on ILO modelled estimates, March 2025 Within SUSTAINWELL, we take a wider perspective of the gender gap in a lifecycle perspective…
Paying £1 or nothing in Dictator Games: Unexpected differences
The paper investigates the case of social preferences: do hypothetical rewards elicit different social behaviour than real but small monetary rewards in online experiments? To answer this more precisely, the Universidad Loyola Andalucia team have conducted an online Dictator Game experiment in which 1,195 participants decided how to split £1 with another participant (63% female, average…
Closing the gender gap in SUSTAINWELL
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) established on 22 December 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly. It is an awareness day to emphasise the need for gender equality in science and to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this year, the…
SUSTAINWELL and the SDGs
On 25 September 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted a new Sustainable Development Agenda which provides a framework to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. It outlines 17 goals with the greatest challenges of the 21st century requiring deep structural, regulatory and behavioural transformation. Every year, the UN…
Sustainability and intergenerational solidarity
Ció Patxot, the project coordinator, participated in a Round table on ‘Sustainability and intergenerational solidarity’ during the first day of the XIX Congress of Basque Studies which was focused on the “New socio-economic model and welfare society”. The Congress was held on October 2, 3 and 4, 2024 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). The discussion sparked with…
International Multiconference Information Society 2024
SUSTAINWELL researcher Jože Sambt presented “When tempo component in the total fertility rate fades away” at the Demographic and Family Analyses Conference on 7 October 2024 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) Access the publication here
Health Economics Association Conference
SUSTAINWELL researchers Alexandrina Stoyanova, Raquel Andrés and Gemma Abio (UB) held presentations on the XLII edition of the Health Economics Association (AES) Conference on 5 -7 July at the University of Girona (Spain) .
SUSTAINWELL at the 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association
SUSTAINWELL was presented at the 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association that took place at the University of Vienna on 8 – 10 January by the project coordinator, Ció Patxot (UB). The conferences was organised by the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO).