GÁL, Róbert Iván 
Senior Research Fellow
Research fields
- lifecycle financing
- intergenerational transfers
- National Transfer Accounts
- characteristic age
Contact
E-mail: gal@demografia.hu
Tel.: + 36 1 345 6046
Homepage
Selected recent publications
Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, Members of the NTA Network (2022): Six Ways Population Change Will Affect the Global Economy. Population and Development Review 48(1) 51-73. (Róbert Gál is a member of the NTA Network).
Vanhuysse P., Medgyesi M. and Gál R. (2022): Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines. OSE Opinion Papers, no. 27.
Vanhuysse P, Medgyesi M, Gál RI (2021): Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups. PLOS ONE 16(8): e0255760.
Vanhuysse P, Gál RI (forthcoming): Intergenerational Resource Transfers as the Cement of Society: The Asymmetric Role of Families and Policies. In: Daly M, Pfau-Effinger B, Gilbert N. and Besharov D (eds.): International Handbook of Family Policy: A Life-Course Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gál RI, Medgyesi M (2021): Poor targeting? Targeting the poor? Redistribution in the Hungarian welfare system by age and socio-economic status. Social Policy and Administration, 55(4), 716-731.
Gál RI, Radó M (2020): Labor market participation and postponed retirement in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Holzmann R, Palmer E, Palacios R, and Sacchi S (eds). Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Pension Schemes, Volume 1: Addressing Marginalization, Polarization, and the Labor Market. Washington DC: World Bank, 371-398.
Vargha, Lili – Gál, Róbert Iván (2019): Intergenerational reallocation of resources. In Monostori, Judit – Őri, Péter – Spéder, Zsolt (eds.): Demographic Portrait of Hungary, 2018. Report on the conditions of the Hungarian population. Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest: 201–216.
Gál, Róbert Iván - Vanhuysse, Pieter - Vargha, Lili (2018): Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(6), 944-958. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2017.1401112
Hammer, Bernhard – Prskawetz, Alexia – Gál Róbert Iván – Vargha Lili – Istenič, Tanja 2018: Human capital investment and the sustainability of public transfer systems across Europe. Journal of Population Ageing.
Gál, Róbert Iván - Monostori, Judit (2017): A taxonomy of indicators of economic sustainability and intergenerational fairness. Intergenerational Justice Review 11(2), 77-86.
Gál, Róbert Iván - Törzsök, Árpád (2017): The savings gap in Hungary. Journal of the Economics of Ageing, DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2017.05.002
Gál, Róbert Iván – Szabó, Endre – Vargha, Lili (2015): The age-profile of invisible transfers: the true size of asymmetry in inter-age reallocations. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol. 5., pp.98-104.
Lee, R.D. - Mason, A. - members of the NTA Network (2014): Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption. Science 346/6206, pp.229-234. (Róbert Iván Gál is a member of the NTA network)