LinkedIn Data Analyzed | May 22, 2025

Are There Differences Between Men and Women When Moving for a Job?

A team at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) examined professional migration of men and women in 48 countries using data from LinkedIn’s Advertising and Recruiter platform. The team found that, although men aspire to migrate more often than women, globally, as many women as men migrate for a job.  More

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Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@­SocialDemography

Federica Becca from the Research Group: Kinship Inequalities gives a talk.  More

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New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Introduction to our research groups

Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

Press Release | May 14, 2025

Where the Brightest Minds in Science Moved

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) expanded the regional data included in the Scholarly Migration Database to examine how scientists move internationally across countries and internally within countries. The team found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. When a region within a country is a popular destination for scientists, they come from both within the country and from abroad. Less attractive destinations see more complex patterns.  More

Selected Publications

Conte Keivabu, R.; Widmann, T.:

The effect of temperature on language complexity: evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches   Iscience 27:6, 1–13. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020   Scientific Data 11:816, 1–14. (2024)

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Life & Research in Rostock

Press Release | April 02, 2025

Low Fertility and Economic Sustainability

Recommended Reading | May 12, 2025

Birth seasonality: Eastern Germany realigns with the West after reunification

There are times of the year when more children are born than usual. In his latest publication, Risto Conte Keivabu, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), examines how the seasonal distribution of births in East and West Germany has changed between 1946 and 2017, and whether German reunification was associated with a change in the seasonality of births.  More

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.