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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…
The Elderly Bias of the Spanish Welfare State (1958–2012)
The Spanish welfare state is strongly biased toward sustaining the elderly’s welfare, rather than children’s. We study the evolution of that bias since 1958 through National Transfer Accounts (NTA). NTA disentangle how people produce, consume, and save along their life cycle, and how resources move among generations through different mechanisms (families, markets, and governments). We…
Young teens at play: Girls are egalitarian, boys are generous
Using the decisions of 2500 girls and boys in three mini dictator games, this paper investigates how the social preferences of five cohorts of students (aged 12 to 16) evolve throughout adolescence. We find that at early ages (12 years old, 7th grade), girls tend to be egalitarian, boys are more generous, and <10 % exhibit spiteful…
SUSTAINWELL at the European Population Conference 2024
SUSTAINWELL researchers Bernhard Binder-Hammer and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (OEAW) held a presentation on “Age-Specific Income Trends in Europe and the Role of Government Redistribution” at the 2024 European Population Conference that took place in Edinburgh on 12-15 June. Access the presentation here