Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

2003 - 2025

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Volume 14, issue 1, 2016

INTRODUCTION pp. 001-4

Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov

A unifying framework for the study of population aging pp. 007-40

Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov

Towards a reconceptualising of population ageing in emerging markets pp. 041-66

Stuart Gietel-Basten, Sergei Scherbov and Warren Sanderson

Population ageing dynamics in the North Atlantic region of the Arctic pp. 067-88

Anastasia Emelyanova and Arja Rautio

Certain characteristics of population ageing using a prospective approach: Serbia as a case study pp. 089-106

Jelena Stojilkovic Gnjatovic and Mirjana Devedzic

The impact of physical health on the postponement of retirement pp. 107-130

Michael Boissonneault and Joop de Beer

Adjusting prospective old-age thresholds by health status: empirical findings and implications. A case study of Italy pp. 131-154

Elena Demuru and Viviana Egidi

Measuring dependency ratios using National Transfer Accounts pp. 155-186

Mikkel Barslund and Marten von Werder

Subjective survival expectations and observed survival: How consistent are they? pp. 187-228

Alberto Palloni and Beatriz Novak

Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency pp. 229-254

Tim Riffe, Pil H. Chung, Jeroen Spijker and John MacInnes

A cross-national comparison of 12 biomarkers finds no universal biomarkers of aging among individuals aged 60 and older pp. 255-277

David H. Rehkopf, Luis Rosero-Bixby and William Dow

Volume 13, issue 1, 2015

What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability? pp. 1-13

Raya Muttarak, Wolfgang Lutz and Leiwen Jiang

Engagement of demographers in environmental issues from a historical perspective pp. 15-18

Peter McDonald

The next best time for demographers to contribute to climate change research pp. 19-22

Anastasia J. Gage

Will climate change shift demography’s ‘normal science’? pp. 23-28

Lori M Hunter and Jane Menken

Barriers to involvement of Chinese demographers in climate change research pp. 29-32

Xizhe Peng and Qin Zhu

Population dynamics and climate change: A challenging frontier for the intrepid demographer pp. 33-36

Adrian C. Hayes

Two statements on population and sustainable development produced by global scientific panels in 2002 and 2012 pp. 37-46

Wolfgang Lutz

Differential mortality patterns from hydro-meteorological disasters: Evidence from cause-of-death data by age and sex pp. 47-70

Emilio Zagheni, Raya Muttarak and Erich Striessnig

Daily mortality changes in Taiwan in the 1970s: An examination of the relationship between temperature and mortality pp. 71-90

Zhongwei Zhao, Yuan Zhu and Edward Jow-Chung Tu

Assessing the effectiveness of a social vulnerability index in predicting heterogeneity in the impacts of natural hazards: Case study of the Tropical Storm Washi flood in the Philippines pp. 91-129

J. Andres F. Ignacio, Grace T. Cruz, Fernando Nardi and Sabine Henry

Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai pp. 131-165

Alex de Sherbinin and Guillem Bardy

Who perceives what? A demographic analysis of subjective perception in rural Thailand pp. 167-191

Jacqueline Meijer-Irons

Who is concerned about and takes action on climate change? Gender and education divides among Thais pp. 193-220

Raya Muttarak and Thanyaporn Chankrajang

Future differential vulnerability to natural disasters by level of education pp. 221-240

Erich Striessnig and Elke Loichinger

The demography of human development and climate change vulnerability: A projection exercise pp. 241-262

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Wolfgang Lutz

A four-dimensional population module for the analysis of future adaptive capacity in the Phang Nga province of Thailand pp. 263-287

Elke Loichinger, Samir Kc and Wolfgang Lutz

Volume 12, issue 1, 2014

Health, education, and retirement over the prolonged life cycle: a selective survey of recent research pp. 1-22

Michael Kuhn, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and Uwe Sunde

What can reverse causation tell us about demographic differences in the social network and social support determinants of self-rated health in later life? pp. 23-52

Heather Booth, Pilar Rioseco and Heather Crawford

The effect of retirement on self-reported health: a gender comparison in Italy pp. 53-82

Lucia Coppola and Daniele Spizzichino

Real wage and labor supply in a quasi life-cycle framework: a macro compression by Swedish National Transfer Accounts (1985-2003) pp. 83-114

Haodong Qi

Working after age 50 in Spain. Is the trend towards early retirement reversing? pp. 115-140

Madelín Goméz-León and Pau Miret-Gamundi

Retirement and leisure: a longitudinal study using Swedish data pp. 141-168

Linda Kridahl

More with less: the Almost Ideal Pension Systems (AIPS) pp. 169-192

Gustavo DeSantis

How large are the effects of population aging on economic inequality? pp. 193-209

Joshua R. Goldstein and Ronald Lee

Volume 11, issue 1, 2013

Determinants of unusual and differential longevity: an introduction pp. 1-13

Graziella Caselli and Marc Luy

Mortality deceleration is not informative of unobserved heterogeneity in open groups pp. 15-36

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Modal age at death: lifespan indicator in the era of longevity extension pp. 37-69

Shiro Horiuchi, Nadine Ouellette, Siu Lan Karen Cheung and Jean-Marie Robine

Surviving to be the oldest old—destiny or chance? pp. 71-85

Jon Anson

The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world pp. 87-108

Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Gianni Pes

The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males pp. 109-136

Luis Rosero-Bixby, William Dow and David H. Rehkopf

Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany pp. 137-163

Sebastian Klüsener and Rembrandt D. Scholz

Lifetime abstainers and mortality risk in the United States pp. 165-183

Richard G. Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, Richard Miech and Elizabeth M. Lawrence

The longevity of academicians: evidence from the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig pp. 185-204

Maria Winkler-Dworak and Heiner Kaden

Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers pp. 205-218

Morgan E. Levine and Eileen M. Crimmins

Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan pp. 219-246

Ethan J. Sharygin and Michel Guillot

Exploring Sardinian longevity: women fertility and parental transmission of longevity pp. 247-266

Graziella Caselli, Rosa Maria Lipsi, Enrica Lapucci and James W. Vaupel

Maternal age, birth order and other early-life factors: a family-level approach to exploring exceptional survival pp. 267-294

Valérie Jarry, Alain Gagnon and Robert Bourbeau

Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings pp. 295-323

Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova

Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850–2010 pp. 325-349

Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco and Michel Poulain