Student research assistants at KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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Job description
Your task will be to support the research staff in all aspects of the field research of this project. You will work closely with the project leaders, Dr. Michael Siegenthaler, head of the research division, and Prof. Dr. Dina Pomeranz from the University of Zurich, as well as the postdocs, PhD students and other student research assistants involved in the project. You will be responsible for coding the content of Swiss collective bargaining agreements, describing and conducting econometric analyses of microdata, and documenting the findings.
The concrete tasks for the position include:
Collecting and codifying data (both quantitative and textual) in a structured manner in Zurich, Bern, and Neuchatel Documenting the collected data and its coding in a codebook Linking the assembled dataset to individual-level wage data, cleaning the data, and analysing it descriptively using the statistical software packages R or Stata Contributing to a research article documenting the dataset and the changes in the collective bargaining landscape in Switzerland since
Your profile
You must be enrolled at a Swiss University, preferably in a humanities, social science, or data science track toward the end of your Bachelor or in your Master and willing to work between 1 to 2 days per week (15h) for at least 1-2 year for this project, starting July or August . At KOF, working time is typically handled very flexibly such that student assistants can take time to study for exams or fulfil other obligations for their studies while coordinating with the research staff at KOF when their tasks need to be completed.
We are looking for individuals with a strong interest in research in labour topics, particularly trade unions, collective bargaining, labour market policies, and wage inequality. Prior experience in coding, analysing, and visualizing data using the statistical software packages R or Stata is desired and an interest in expanding these skills is expected. Strong reading and writing skills in German and English are important. The ideal candidate also has a good command of French or Italian and is interested in pursuing a PhD.
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