Belanger, A.

Loichinger, E.

Lutz, W.

Marois, G.

Sabourin, P.

Sakdapolrak, P.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

EC-JRC/IIASA Centre of Expertise on Population and MigrationWolfgang Lutz, Alain Belanger, Elke Loichinger, Guillaume Marois, Patrick Sabourin, Patrick Sakdapolrak In the framework of the European Commission's KnowledgeCentre for Migration and Demography, the Centre of Expertise onPopulation and Migration was created in response to a need forstrengthening demographic expertise with the EuropeanCommission with a specific focus on implications of migration.The Centre aims to bring new understanding to how migrationcould impact the future EU economy and society, and whatpolicies could lead to the most positive outcomes.The basic rationale for the creation of the new Centre is that theEU member states must deal not only with short-term challengesin the context of the refugee crisis but also have to understandthe longer term implications in the context of an aging population.Against this background, the Centre will conduct research on thelikely longer-term impact of alternative migration scenarios on thechanging structure of Europe’s population by not only consideringage and sex but also education and labor force participation. Thisinformation is necessary to inform EU migration policy.For selected EU countries it will also conduct scenarios accordingto place of birth, religion, language use, and other socialdimensions. The Centre will also produce alternative scenariosfor future conditions in potential sending countries in Africa andWestern Asia that may result in out-migration pressures.The new research partnership is co-headed by IIASA WorldPopulation Program Director Wolfgang Lutz, also the foundingdirector of the Wittgenstein Centre, and by Delilah Al-Khudhairy,director of Policy Support Coordination at the JRC. The Centre ofExpertise on Population and Migration is initially funded for threeyears. The research staff will include five postdoctoral fellows whowill work at IIASA, and five demography experts stationed atJRC-Ispra.IIASA and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) have launched a new research partnership to provide science-based knowledge on migration and demography to support EU policy.Economic Dependency Ratio for EU-28, different scenarios(from left to right) Klaus Rudischhauser, EC; Mariana Kotzeva, EC; Reiner Munz, EPSC; Alessandra Zampieri, EC; Wolfgang Lutz, IIASA; Kristalina Georgieva, EC; Vladimir Šucha, EC; Tibor Navracsics, EC; Delilah Al Khudhairy Director, EC; Christos Stylianides, EC; Anne Goujon, IIASA; Pavel Kabat, IIASA.Economic Dependency Ratio = people not in the labor force/people in the labor force. Source: Loichinger, E. (2015). Labor Force Projections up to 2053 for 26 EU countries by Age, Sex, and Highest Level of Educational Attainment. Demographic Research, 32(15), p. 443-486.Launch event in Brussels, 20 June 2016

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