Vacant position for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics, Demography, or Quantitative Social Sciences at the University of Vienna
1 FEB 2024
The Department of Demography, which is part of the Wittgenstein Centre, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher who will be part of the Skill-PAL project "Skill loss during parental leave and its role for gender disparities in earnings" (PI: Sonja Spitzer).
This interdisciplinary project uses novel administrative data from Austria and Sweden, coupled with large international surveys, to investigate the impact of human capital depreciation during career breaks on gender wage differences. Join an international project team of economists, demographers, and psychologists from top institutions in Austria, Sweden, and France.
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (F/M/X) at the University of Vienna
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.