The Rockwool Foundation Berlin is organising the first RFBerlin Public Lecture in cooperation with the Humboldt University of Berlin. The guest speaker is Nobel Prize winner David Card, with his lecture ‘Migration and the Minimum Wage – Causes and Effects on the Labour Market.’

Professor Card will explore the transition from economic models to practical policy, focusing on the impact of immigration on the labor market and minimum wages. He will discuss the role of scientific approaches in shaping effective policies and examine how real-world data can lead to better economic decision.

A Q&A session will follow the lecture, providing attendees the chance to engage directly with Professor Card.

Time: 16:00 – 18:00, Thursday 12 September 2024.

Location: Lecture Hall 201 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Straße 1, 10178 Berlin

Registration: here.

Please find more information about the event here.

Ausschreibung von Stipendien am Promotionskolleg EQUALFIN: Finanzsystem und Ungleichheit im Kontext von multiplen Krisen.

Aus Mitteln der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung werden zum frühesten Beginn im Juni 2025 bis zu 6 Promotionsstipendien für das Promotionskolleg „EQUALFIN: Finanzsystem und Ungleichheit im Kontext von multiplen Krisen“ (PK 058) vergeben.

Die derzeitigen multiplen Krisen drohen, bestehende soziale und ökonomische Ungleichheiten zu
verschärfen. Der Prozess von Krisen und Reaktion darauf erfolgt im Kontext eines globalen Finanzsystems, das immer weniger seiner klassischen Aufgabe der Investitionsfinanzierung nachkommt, Ungleichheiten verschärft und das zudem durch hierarchisch strukturierte Währungsbeziehungen geprägt ist.

Das Promotionskolleg untersucht die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Finanzsystem und sozioökonomischer Ungleichheit auf nationaler und globaler Ebene und analysiert neue Zielkonflikte durch die Finanzierung der ökologischen Transformation. Die Forschung adressiert die Wechselwirkungen auf makro- und mikroökonomischer Ebene und mit einem methodisch und paradigmatisch pluralistischen Zugang.

Insgesamt stehen vier Themencluster im Mittelpunkt des Kollegs:

1. Finanzsektor und Ungleichheit aus globaler Perspektive
2. Finanzsektor und Ungleichheit im Kontext der ökologischen Transformation
3. Ungleicher Zugang zu Finanzierung auf individueller Ebene
4. Ungleiche Finanzierung und ihre Folgen für Sozialversicherungen, Immobilienmärkte und
   wirtschaftliche Entwicklung.

Ablauf des Bewerbungs- und Auswahlprozesses:
Bewerbungsschluss Stipendien ist der 02.11.2024

Weitere Informationen hier

Workshop on Life-course Inequality Dynamics

Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate. In his Nobel prize lecture in 2015, Angus Deaton has outlined three imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing policies: (I) Differences in resources across individuals should be measured not only at specific points in time but also across the life course. (II) Direct economic measures of well-being should be developed to assess better socio-economic outcomes. (III) Data should be reconciled with lifecycle models to explain the causal mechanisms behind outcomes. This workshop is an initiative to build on these imperatives and seeks to bring together scholars whose research focuses, from a lifecycle perspective, on inequalities in and fluctuations of economic resources and their drivers.

Time and Place
October 24-25, 2024; DIW Berlin, Elinor Ostrom Hall

Keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Cecilia García Peñalosa, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Title: Trends and Inequality in Lifetime Earnings in France

Prof. Dr. Dr. Giacomo Corneo, Freie Universität Berlin
Title: Lifetime income inequality and redistribution

Submission
Submissions that deal with any aspect of inequality dynamics over the lifecycle. There is no participation fee. Travel expenses are not covered. If you would like to participate in the workshop and / or present your own research, please send your application to: LINDY@diw.de

Submission deadline: August 25, 2024

The 5th Edition of the Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research will take place in Trento, Italy, from 23 to 25 October 2024.

The School provides advanced training on key social science research topics using an analytical approach based on sociological, economic, demographic, statistical and computer science perspectives. The School aims to provide a systematic integration of the theoretical, methodological and technical ‘cutting-edge’ aspects of applied quantitative research.

The 5th Edition focuses on Social Policies. The theoretical sessions will range from the conceptualization and measurement of Social Policies to their assessment in an empirical and comparative framework. The methodological sessions provide a specific training on (1) discrete-time event history analysis with the integration of micro and macro data; (2) multilevel regression analysis using micro and macro data in a comparative framework; and (3) causal estimation using semiparametric event study approach and quasi-experimental methods.

The School is addressed to PhD students, post-docs and early-stage researchers of universities, public and private research institutions.

Application deadline: 26 August 2024, 12.00 PM (CET).

Please find more information here.

The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) at the University of Mainz welcomes applications for its 3-day Autumn School. The Autumn School provides opportunities to learn how to use the FReDA dataset. Participants will be introduced to FReDA, find out how to access the data, and will have the chance to work with the data through hands-on sessions.

FReDA collects data about living situations of partnerships and families in Germany. A representative sample was drawn from all people aged 18 to 49 living in Germany in 2020. Twice a year, FReDA surveys its participants and their partners.

The course will be held in English. Researchers of all levels are welcome. Participants need to be able to use Stata, R or SPSS.

The Summer School will take place from 30.09 – 02.10, 2024 at the University of Mainz.

Application deadline: July 31, 2024

Please find more information here.

The Chair of Public Economics (Professor Stefan Bauernschuster) offers a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant or Post-Doc position from 1st October 2024

Your role

Your responsibilities will include working independently on research projects on predominantly empirical topics in the fields of labour, population and health economics as well as related fields. You will be expected to present your findings at international conferences and prepare them for publication in internationally renowned journals. The teaching load is 3.75 contact teaching hours per week (“Semesterwochenstunden”) for the 75% position or 5.0 contact teaching hours per week for the 100% position and includes mainly English-language courses for Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes. We offer you the opportunity of pursuing a doctorate or postdoctoral habilitation qualification.

Your profile

You have a very good university master’s degree in economics or have (almost) completed your doctoral studies in economics. Sound knowledge of applied microeconometrics and microeconomics is required; specialised knowledge in the field of labour, population or health economics would be desirable. In addition to good organisational and communication skills, we expect you to have a keen interest in empirical research. You are a good fit for us if you are a motivated team player who is open to new ideas and shows plenty of initiative. Excellent written and spoken English is required for this position.

What we offer you

• Diverse and challenging work in an international environment with dedicated researchers
• Participation in the doctoral programmes of the faculty and the Bavarian Graduate
  Program in Economics (BGPE)
• Possibility of becoming integrated into the DFG Research Training Group “Digital Platform
  Ecosystems”
• A modern university campus that is just a few minutes’ walk from the historic Old Town
  and idyllically situated on the Inn river
• Pleasant working atmosphere in a family-friendly environment

Application deadline: July 21, 2024
Find more information here.

The Chair of Business Economics, with a focus on Personnel Economics and Economics of (Vocational) Education, at the University of Zurich is looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to start in the first half of 2025.

In the chair, they conduct cutting-edge research on topics within Economics of Education and Labor/Personnel Economics, and they are currently conducting and planning field experiments (RCTs) in Switzerland and abroad.

Candidates must have some German knowledge.

PhD position

The PhD student will be enrolled in the Graduate School of Business and will be taking graduate courses in the doctoral program on Economics of Education in the Swiss Leading House VPET-ECON, as well as having the opportunity to take other relevant graduate courses within the Faculty. The expected duration of the PhD is 4-5 years.

Postdoc position

The Postdoc position is for three years with the possibility to extend it for a further three years upon mutual agreement. Candidates should hold (at the time of starting the position) a Ph.D. degree in Economics or a related quantitative field with a specialization in applied microeconomics. Preferably the candidate has a strong expertise in either applied microeconometric methods or in field experiments.

Deadline: the screening of applications will start on August 15, 2024; applications are accepted until the position is filled.

Please find more information about the positions and how to apply here.

Im Fachbereich IV der Universität Trier ist an der Professur für Personalökonomik sowie am IAAEU zum
nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle zu besetzen:

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d), E 13 TV-L, insgesamt 75%, befristet zur Qualifikation nach WissZeitVG)

Diese Aufgaben erwarten Sie

Die Professur für Personalökonomik arbeitet eng mit dem Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbezie-
hungen in der Europäischen Union (IAAEU) zusammen. Die Mitarbeiter/-innen der Professur sowie der
ökonomischen Arbeitsgruppe des IAAEU befassen sich vor allem mit der theoretischen und
empirischen Analyse von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen und deren Einfluss auf Marktergebnisse. Ihre
Aufgabe ist, zu den Forschungsleistungen auf diesen Feldern aktiv beizutragen. Insbesondere

• erstellen Sie eine kumulative Promotion
• arbeiten aktiv in der Forschergruppe im Rahmen von Seminaren und Konferenzen mit
• stellen Forschungsergebnisse auf Workshops und Konferenzen vor und
• übernehmen Infrastrukturaufgaben (z. B. Organisation der Aufenthalte von Gastforschern/
  -innen, wissenschaftlicher Konferenzen)

Das erwarten wir von Ihnen

• hervorragendes Prädikatsexamen in VWL, BWL oder einem verwandten Studiengang
• ausgezeichnete Beherrschung mikroökonomischer oder mikroökonometrischer Methoden
  sowie entsprechender Software (Stata, R)
• Interesse an den Arbeitsmarktwirkungen von KI oder der ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts
• exzellente Beherrschung der deutschen sowie sehr gute Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache

More information can be found here.

Deadline for application: 15.07.24