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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 18d

🚨Registration for the 2025 Wittgenstein Centre Conference Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century is open 🥳

➡️Join us in Vienna or online to hear the latest research from the top migration scholars 🤓

➡️This year we also have a Round Table to discuss how science can inform policy!

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available!
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...

#WICVienna #demography

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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · Aug 5

📊 Check this super recent paper on "Education, religion, and male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa" by my colleague Afua Durowaa-Boateng.🤓

Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · Aug 5

Polygamous men have more children—just like women. But unlike women, education doesn’t consistently lower fertility for men in Sub-Saharan Africa: 📄👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
#male_fertility #demography #education #Sub-Saharan_Africa
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨Check out our new article in International Migration Review
led by Andrea Aparicio Castro with Arkadiusz Wiśniowski & Michaela Potančoková @iiasa.ac.at

Estimating and Conditional Forecasting Bilateral Migration Flows Between South America and Europe, 1985–2050

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Estimating and Conditional Forecasting Bilateral Migration Flows Between South America and Europe, 1985–2050 - Andrea Lisette Aparicio Castro, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Dilek Yildiz, Michaela Potančoková,...

South America and Europe have a history of reversals in the directionality of migration. While South America was a major destination for European migrants in th...

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Paola Di Giulio @pdigiulio.bsky.social · Jun 24

Between statistics and machine learning: “Bayesian reconstruction of fertility rates by education level” by Afua Durowaa-Boateng at the www.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a...

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨Great #postdoc opportunity to work with Hill Kulu and the rest of the team on #migrant #family #housing research using #microsimulation! We look forward to receiving your applications! ✍️

ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚩Job vacancy

🏘️ #Postdoctoral #ResearchfFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation as part of @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG.

Closing date: 8 July 2025

Full info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Image shows a picture of a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook. Text advertises job opportunity: Post-doctoral Research Fellow* to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. This work is part of two research programmes: a) the MigrantLife project funded by the European Research Council (ERC); and 2) the ESRC Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations (CPC-CG). The Research Fellow will use microsimulation: a) to project partnership and childbearing trajectories of migrants and their descendants in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe); and b) to investigate individuals’ and couples’ housing trajectories in the UK and to project future homeownership rates.

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · May 5

⏰Only one month left!
Don´t forget to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025!
🔗 tinyurl.com/wittconfdem
@vypr.bsky.social #WICVienna

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Call for Papers!
We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna.
📆 Deadline: May 31, 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/ywetcthm
#WiCVienna #demography

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PREMIUM_EU @premiumeu.bsky.social · Feb 21

#Depopulation is reshaping rural regions across Europe. How can policymakers respond?

Get research insights and join the discussions for attractive and resilient rural regions:
🔗 nordregio.org/events/rural...

🖥️ Webinar, 'Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants'
📅 29 April 🕙 10-12 (CEST)

Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants | Nordregio

At this event, we explore which indicators might explain why certain regions are particularly attractive to move to compared to others. We also ask regional policymakers how they changed their…

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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Mar 10

📢 We're hiring: Climate & Migration Researcher! 🌍📊
Join the Migration & Sustainable Development Research Group to study how climate impacts migration. We seek a postdoc with expertise in statistics, modeling (R, STATA, Python), and large-scale climate & migration data. iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...