Research Projects
New approaches to the economic effects of demographic processes
1 June 2015 -31 October 2016
Sponsor: PALLAS ATHENE DOMUS ANIMAE FOUNDATION
Topics examined and activities carried out under the project:
- Active Ageing Index, the role of the index in guidance provided to politicians
- The role of the first demographic dividend in promoting growth
- Corrected fertility rate
- Essay writing competition for Corvinus full-time BA and MA students
Sustainable, smart and inclusive regional and urban models. Social innovation. (Subproject of the Corvinus University of Budapest as a consortium member)
1 June 2017 -31 October 2020
Sponsored by: EFOP-3.6.2-16-2017-00017
Topics examined and activities carried out under the project:
- Survey questionnaire among older workers in Székesfehérvár and Budapest. The aim of the survey was to explore how older workers judge their working conditions, what their plans for retirement are, what would make them stay on the labour market longer, what financial circumstances they expect in their future life as pensioners, how far they plan to take part in family and social life, etc.
- The evolution of the number of older drivers at the Oszkár Hungarian carpooling company. This illustrates the expected share of older workers in the gig economy. – Chances of older applicants to be interviewed for a job. Example of female job seekers.
- A new approach to the active ageing index. Expert estimates and calculated indices.
Our Master Courses
- Asghar Zaidi: Positive paradigms of ageing, including active and healthy ageing (London School of Economics and Political Science) and
- Moritz Hess: Demographic ageing in Europe: How will it affect the economy and welfare state? (University of Bremen, Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy)
- Jolanta Perek-Bialas: Ageism in the labour market policy. (Jagiellonian University, Cracow and Institute of Statistics and Demography at the Warsaw School of Economics)