I am a statistical demographer working predominantly with migration data to better predict past and future movement patterns and gain a richer understanding of how migration varies by core demographic variables such as age, sex and education. Prior to joining the HKU Department of Sociology, I was a professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute based at Shanghai University and a researcher at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
I have also worked as a consultant for Facebook, the International Organization for Migration, International Labour Organization and the World Bank and taught courses on using R at the KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 912 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-5687 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/guyabelguyabel |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Transversal consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Other
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Quantitative research
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Hong Kong
University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor -
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Research Institute, Laxenburg, Austria
Researcher -
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Research Institute, Laxenburg, Austria
Researcher
Research
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide
| Authors | Roman Hoffmann, Guy Abel, Maurizio Malpede, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Nature Climate Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century
| Authors | Amina Maharjan, Angel del Valle, Annabel Erulkar, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union
| Authors | Dilek Yildiz, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Guy J. Abel, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
International Migration and Development: The Changing Impact of Migration on Redistributing Global Population
| Authors | Elin Charles-Edwards, Aude Bernard, Francisco Rowe, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Investigating the distribution of university alumni populations within South Korea and Taiwan based on data from the LinkedIn advertising platform
| Authors | Nayoung Heo, Nayoung Heo, Hsin-Chieh Chang, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Cities |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
The development of internal migration flow patterns in Japan
| Authors | Kaoru Kakinuma, Guy J. Abel |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Closing disparities between European sending and receiving international migration flow data
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Dilek Yildiz |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science |
Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants
| Authors | Chen Chen, Aude Bernard, Ryan Rylee, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Population Research and Policy Review |
The form and evolution of international migration networks, 1990–2015
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Jack DeWaard, Jasmine Trang Ha, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Analyzing the Effect of Time in Migration Measurement Using Georeferenced Digital Trace Data
| Authors | Lee Fiorio, Emilio Zagheni, Guy Abel, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Demography |
| Citations (WoS) | 18 |
Geographic transformation of China's internal population migration from 1995 to 2015: Insights from the migration centerline
| Authors | Wei Qi, Guy J. Abel, Shenghe Liu |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Applied Geography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict
| Authors | Raya Muttarak, Guy J. Abel, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Global Environmental Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International remittance flows and the economic and social consequences of COVID-19
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Stuart Gietel-Basten |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
Driving factors of Asian international migration flows
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, James Raymer, Qing Guan |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Asian Population Studies |
Bilateral international migration flow estimates for 200 countries
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Joel E. Cohen |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Scientific Data | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Bowling Together: Scientific Collaboration Networks of Demographers at European Population Conferences
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Raya Muttarak, Valeria Bordone, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Population |
Climate, conflict and forced migration
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Michael Brottrager, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Global Environmental Change |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Internal migration in Brazil using circular visualization
| Authors | Emerson Augusto Baptista, Guy J. Abel, Járvis Campos |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Estimates of Global Bilateral Migration Flows by Gender between 1960 and 20151
| Authors | Guy J. Abel |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Estimates of Global Bilateral Migration Flows by Gender between 1960 and 20151
| Authors | Guy J. Abel |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 |
Non-zero trajectories for long-run net migration assumptions in global population projection models
| Authors | Guy Abel |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Changing internal migration flows patterns in South Korea
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Nayoung Heo |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Regional Studies, Regional Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Subnational gender balances in South Korea
| Authors | Guy J Abel, Nayoung Heo |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
Circular visualization of China’s internal migration flows 2010–2015
| Authors | Wei Qi, Guy J Abel, Raya Muttarak, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationships between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration
| Authors | Lee Fiorio, Guy Abel, Jixuan Cai, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE (WEBSCI '17) |
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Bilal Barakat, Samir KC, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Quantifying Global International Migration Flows
| Authors | Guy J. Abel |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Science |
| Citations (WoS) | 141 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Future of International Migration
| Authors | Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel, Fernando Riosmena |
| Year | 2014 |
| Book Title | World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century |
Integrating uncertainty in time series population forecasts: An illustration using a simple projection model
| Authors | Guy Abel, James Raymer, Peter W.F. Smith, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |
Forecasting environmental migration to the United Kingdom: an exploration using Bayesian models
| Authors | Guy Abel, David McCollum, Allan Findlay, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Population and Environment |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 |
Estimating global migration flow tables using place of birth data
| Authors | Guy Abel |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 37 |
Does Specification Matter? Experiments with Simple Multiregional Probabilistic Population Projections
| Authors | James Raymer, Guy J Abel, Andrei Rogers |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
A comparison of official population projections with Bayesian time series forecasts for England and Wales
| Authors | Guy J Abel, Jakub Bijak, James Raymer |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Population Trends | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Estimation of international migration flow tables in Europe
| Authors | Guy J. Abel |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Combining census and registration data to estimate detailed elderly migration flows in England and Wales
| Authors | James Raymer, Guy Abel, Peter W. F. Smith |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Exploring Chinese human capital flight using university alumni data
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, XiaoXia Zhu, Ziyue Huang |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Asian Population Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
World’s human migration patterns in 2000–2019 unveiled by high-resolution data
| Authors | Venla Niva, Alexander Horton, Vili Virkki, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Nature Human Behaviour | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Modeling climate migration: dead ends and new avenues
| Authors | Robert M. Beyer, Jacob Schewe, Guy J. Abel |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Climate | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Bilateral international migration flow estimates updated and refined by sex
| Authors | Guy J. Abel, Joel E. Cohen |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Scientific Data | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Data, Design, and Deep Domain Knowledge: Science-Policy Collaboration to Combat Misinformation on Migration and Migrants
| Authors | Marie McAuliffe, Guy Abel, Adrian Kitimbo, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Harvard Data Science Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Climate Vulnerability and Human Migration in Global Perspective
| Authors | Martina Grecequet, Jack DeWaard, Jessica J. Hellmann, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Sustainability | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability
| Authors | Dilek Yildiz, Guy Abel |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology |
Erratum to: Forecasting environmental migration to the United Kingdom: an exploration using Bayesian models
| Authors | Guy Abel, Jakub Bijak, Allan Findlay, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Population and Environment |
A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections
| Authors | Lucas Kluge, Orlando Olaya-Bucaro, Samir KC, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |