Partners

The Social Observatory of the ”la Caixa” Foundation is a space for analysis, debate and reflection that aims to study current issues and the challenges facing society, and communicate knowledge of the social sciences. Generates science-based knowledge on social issues through competitive calls and its own studies in collaboration with the areas of the ”la Caixa” Foundation. Communicates the knowledge that it generates through different formats, from publications, to activities for reflection and debate at CaixaForum Macaya and the rest of the CaixaForum centres.

Principal Investigator

Maria Gutiérrez

Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group “Labour Market, Income and Social Security” since 2016. His main research interest and competence is the development of simulation models for the study of transfer- and social insurance systems in the context of demographic change. Martin Spielauer has a strong international background which includes 9 years at Statistics Canada’s Socio-Economic Modelling Division and 3 years at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He obtained his PhD in Social Sciences and Economics at the University of Vienna. Before that he held research positions at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Austrian Institute for Family Studies, and the TU Wien. He has been sharing his expertise in countless visiting positions, lecturing roles and consultancies around the globe and published in academic journals as well as in reports of government agencies and international organisations.

Team

• Arantxa Ribot