Curriculum Vitae
| PERSONAL DATA | |
Name |
Vegard Skirbekk |
| Address | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria. |
| Tel.: | +43 2236 807 378 |
| Fax.: | +43 2236 713 13 |
| skirbekk@iiasa.ac.at | |
| UNIVERSITY EDUCATION | |
09/2001-02/2005 |
Ph.D. (Doctor Rerum Politicarum), Rostock University, Germany |
| 08/2000-05/2001 | Advanced Studies in International Economic Policy Research at the Institute of World Economics, Kiel/Germany, (Scholarship from Ruhrgas AG) |
| 07/1999-01/2001 | Master of Philosophy in Economics (Norwegian title: Cand.Polit) at the University of Oslo/Norway |
| 07/1999-12/1999 | 6-months exchange programme at the University of Adelaide/Australia; Main field of study: International Economics and Finance |
| 08/1995-05/1999 | Bachelor Degree (Norwegian title: Cand.Mag) at the University of Oslo/Norway; Main fields of study: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Demography, Psychology, Philosophy |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
1/2008- |
Statistics Norway, Oslo/Norway, Senior Researcher, part- time position |
| 09/2001-09/2003 | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock/Germany, PhD Studies |
| RESEARCH STAYS | |
| 03/2011 | Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore/India |
| 01/2010 | Statistics Canada, Ottawa/Canada |
| 11/2008, 05/2009 | Nihon University Population Research Institute, Tokyo/Japan |
| 04/2009 | Harvard University, Boston/USA |
| 08/2006, 06/2007 | Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo/Norway |
| 02/2006 | Universtity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia/USA |
| 08/2005 | Stanford University, Palo Alto/USA |
| 07/2005 | Rand Summer Institute, Santa Monica/USA |
| 06/2005-07/2005 | Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley/USA |
| 03/2004, 06/2009 | Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm/Sweden |
| 06/2003 | Mannheim Economics of Aging, Mannheim/Germany |
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS |
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Skirbekk, V., E. Loichinger, B. F. Barakat. (2012). “The Aging of the Workforce in European Countries. Demographic Trends, Retirement Projections, and Retirement Policies”. The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging, Oxford University Press Blekesaune, M. and V. Skirbekk. (2012). “Can personality predict retirement behaviour? A longitudinal analysis combining survey and register data from Norway”. European Journal of Aging. 1: 1-8. Skirbekk, V., E. Loichinger and D. Weber. (2012). “Variation in cognitive functioning as a refined approach to comparing ageing across countries“. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (3): 770-774 Skirbekk, V., Caron Malenfant, É., Basten, S., and M. Stonawski. (2012). "The religious composition of the Chinese Diaspora, focusing on Canada". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51 (1): 173–183 Kaufmann, E., A. Goujon and V. Skirbekk. (2012). American Political Affiliation 2003-2043: A cohort-component projection. Population Studies. 66 (1): 53-67. Ilmakunnas, P., van Ours, J., Skirbekk, V., and M. Weiss. 2010. Age and Productivity. Pages 135-255 in P.Garibaldi, J. Oliveira Martins, and J. van Ours (eds.), Ageing, Health, and Productivity. Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. USA, New York: Oxford University Press. Stonawski, M., Skirbekk, V., KC, S., and A. Goujon. 2010. "Projections of religiosity for Spain". Work session on demographic projections, Lisbon, 28-30 April 2010, pp.421-438. Eurostat Methodologies and Working Papers, Eurostat. Skirbekk, V., Goujon, A., and E. Kaufmann. (2010). "Secularism, Fundamentalism, or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49(2):293–310
Salzmann, T., Skirbekk, V., and M.Weiberg. (eds.) (2010). Wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen des demografischen Wandels. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-531-17376-4 Skirbekk, V., K. Telle, E. Nymoen and H. Brunborg. Retirement and mortality – Is there a real connection? (2010). Pages 201-222 in T. Salzmann, V. Skirbekk, and M. Weiberg (eds.), Wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen des demografischen Wandels. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften. Engelhardt, H., Buber, I., Skirbekk, V., and Prskawetz, A. (2010). „Social involvement, behavioural risks and cognitive functioning among older people.” Ageing and Society 30:779–809 doi:10.1017/S0144686X09990626
KC, S., Barakat, B., Goujon, A., Skirbekk, V., Sanderson, W., and W. Lutz. (2010) "Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050", Demographic Research 22: 383 - 472. Buber, I., Engelhardt, H., Prskawetz, A., and V. Skirbekk. (2009) "Soziales Engagement hält Senioren geistig fit", Demographische Forschung, Jahrgang 6, Nr. 2. Skirbekk, V. (2008) “Age and productivity potential: A new approach based on ability levels and industry-wide task demand”, Population and Development Review, Special Supplement, 34: 191-207
(discussed in a special report in The Economist , June 25, 2009).
Skirbekk, V. (2008) “Age and productivity capacity: Descriptions, causes and policy options”, Ageing Horizons, University of Oxford, (reprint appeared in Belgian journal Over.Werk, Labour Economics Research Centre Steunpunt Werk en Sociale Economie). Lutz, W., Kritzinger S., and V. Skirbekk. (2006) “The demography of growing European identity”, Science, 20. Oct 2006: 314: 425. Lutz, W. and V. Skirbekk. (2005) “Policies addressing the tempo effect in low fertility countries”, Population and Development Review 31 (4): 699-720. Skirbekk, V., Kohler, H.-P., and A. Prskawetz. (2004) “Birth month, school graduation and the timing of births and marriages”, Demography 41 (3): 547-568. |
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| BOOK REVIEWS, POPULAR ARTICLES, AND COMMISSIONED STUDIES | |
Skirbekk, V. (2010) Book Review of Ultra-low Fertility in Pacific Asia. Trends, Causes and Policy, Gareth Jones, Paulin Tay Straughan, and Angelique Chan (eds.), 2009, Abingdon: Routledge. Population Studies 64(2): 3-5. Sander, N., Skirbekk, V., KC, S.and E. Lundevaller. (2010) "Prospects for later-life migration in urban Europe". PLUREL Report (Peri-Urban Land Use Relationships – Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for Urban-Rural Linkages, Integrated Project, EU Contract No. 036921) Sobotka, T., Skirbekk, V., and D. Philipov. (2010) "Economic recession and fertility in the developed world. A literature review", Research Note (produced for the European Commission). Vienna, Austria: Vienna Institute of Demography. KC, S., Barakat, B., Goujon, A., Skirbekk, V., Sanderson, W., and W. Lutz. (2010) IIASA/VID Educational Attainment Model Sander, N. and V. Skirbekk. (2009) “Ageing, urban development and retirement migration in Europe”, PLUREL (Peri-Urban Land Use Relationships – Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for Urban-Rural Linkages, Integrated Project, EU Contract No. 036921) KC, S., Skirbekk, V. and T. Mishra. (2008) "Demographic projections for NUTS2 regions in EU countries based on national probabilistic population projection". PLUREL Report (Peri-Urban Land Use Relationships – Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for Urban-Rural Linkages, Integrated Project, EU Contract No. 036921) Skirbekk, V. (2008) The challenges of ageing. PLUREL Newsletter. Skirbekk, V., Prommer, I., KC, S, Terama, E., and C. Wilson. (2007) "Report on methods for demographic projections at multiple levels of aggregation". PLUREL Report (Peri-Urban Land Use Relationships – Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for Urban-Rural Linkages, Integrated Project, EU Contract No. 036921) Skirbekk, V. (2006) "Leistungsfähigkeit im Alter" [Productivity potential at older ages], Personalführung 4/2006. Prskawetz, A., Mahlberg, B., Skirbekk, V., Freund, I., Winkler-Dworak, M., Lindh, T., Malmberg, B., Jans, A.-C., Nordström, O.S., and F. Andersson. (2005) “The impact of population ageing on innovation and productivity growth in Europe“, European Commision: European Observatory on Demography and the Social Situation (SSO) Studies on policy implications of demographic changes in the enlarged EU. |
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| PRESENTATIONS | |
"An investigation of gender differences in cognition for Europeans aged 50 and above", JCLL Conference “Personalized Aging: Potential and Limits of a New Concept”, Bremen, Germany, May 2011 "Productivity potential by age and cohort: Examples from different world regions", 2011 Annual meeting of Population Association of America (PAA), Washington DC, USA, March 2011 "New measures of population ageing ", United Nations Population Division , New York, USA, March 2011 ”Retirement migration patterns”, PLUREL final event, Copenhagen, October 2010 ”No country for young men”, European Population Conference 2010, Vienna, September 2010 „Learning and aging“, Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), Torino, Italy, July 2010 "Education and the rising reproductive cost of maintaining status", Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, May 2010 "Projections of religiosity in Europe ", Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2010 "No country for young men", University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, April 2010 "Religiosity and demographic futures", Joint Eurostat-UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projections, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2010 "ERC starting grant - Sustainable career development and critical success factors", Vienna, March 2010 "Religion projections in the US”, PEW Research Centre, Washington D.C., January 2010 "Religion projections in the US”, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, January 2010 “Demography of growing European identity. Prevalence of multiple identities based on data from the Eurobarometer ”, NIDI, The Hague, November 2009 “Pensjonsalder og levealder”, Norwegian Demographic Association, Oslo, October 2009 „Trends in senior workers’ productivity potential“, IUSSP Conference, Marrakech, September 2009 “The institutional context of low fertility“ (Discussant) , IUSSP Conference, Marrakech, September 2009 „The future of religious denominations in the United States to 2043“, IUSSP Conference, Marrakech, September 2009 „Increased education and postponed fertility: the rising reproductive cost of attaining status“ , IUSSP Conference, Marrakech, September 2009 “Demographic determinants of the religious distribution” Workshop, Religion and Demography, J.F. Kennedy School, Harvard University, May 2009 “Postponing retirement”, invited speech for opening session (together with Edward Lazear) of the Rethinking Retirement in Europe Workshop, Dutch Social Economic Council, Netspar, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, April 2009. “Does the combination of spouses’ birth orders influence their
divorce risk? Evidence from a register-based study of Norwegian first marriages, European Population Conference, Liverpool, June 2006. “Prospects for labour migration to Europe”, Research Training Network Meeting, Rostock, January 2006. |
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| RESEARCH GRANTS AND APPOINTMENTS | |
Principal Investigator, Starting Grant, European Research Council (ERC), 2009-2014, approx. € 1,000,000 Consultant, PEW Forum on Religion & Public Life Grant, 2010-2012, approx. € 275,000 Member of the Hewlett-Foundation/Norwegian Research Council Scientific Research Funding Committee “ECONPOP” Module coordinator and work package leader, European Commision, PLUREL project, 2007-2010, €254,316 (total budget about €7,000,000) |
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| SUPERVISION, PHD STUDENTS | |
| Muhammad Asif Wazir, “Population projections by education for Pakistan”, Vienna University. Marta Jankowska, “Spatial population projections compared across developing and developed cities“, Young Summer Student Program (YSSP) - IIASA, 2009, San Diego State University, USA . Monika Sawhney, “Achieving child health related millennium development goals – role of education”, YSSP – IIASA, 2008, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Nikola Sander, "The effects of age, period and cohort on retirement migration in Australia", YSSP – IIASA, 2007, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Naomi Aoki, "Ageing and vulnerability in Cambodia". YSSP – IIASA, 2007, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA. Marcin Stonawski, “Age, human capital and productivity”, Krakow School of Economics, YSSP – IIASA, 2006, Krakow University, Poland. Sarah Staveteig, “Population, resources, and the onset of civil war worldwide, 1960-2000”, YSSP – IIASA, 2004, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Pawel Strzelecki, “The education projections for selected European countries”, YSSP – IIASA, 2004, Central Bank of Poland. Ying Ji, “Human capital in Vietnam”, YSSP– IIASA, 2004, Institute of Population Research, Peking University, China. SZU Ungargasse, Integrationsschule, Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule, 2004, (Voluntary Project in Viennese Integration school). |
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| REFEREE | |
Population Studies Population and Development Review Experimental Gerontology Demographic Research Applied Economics Vienna Yearbook of Population Research European Journal of Population Labour Economics Asian Population Studies Journal of Population Ageing Research on Aging International Tax and Public Finance Social Forces Economic Policy |
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