The ifo Institute is inviting applications for five Postdoctoral Research positions. The positions are for six years and are full-time. The salary is internationally competitive and complemented by generous annual leave.
The ifo Institute is one of Europe’s leading economic research institutes. Research at ifo combines academic excellence with economic policy relevance. Our faculty and postdoctoral researchers publish their work in high-impact journals and use their findings to bring scientific perspectives into policy debates. The scope of our research is broad, covering most fields in economics. Please check out our research activities in-depth on the following webpage: https://www.ifo.de/en/research/ifo-centers.
We promote outstanding research by providing generous administrative and research support, an exceptional data infrastructure, and tailored training and development programs. Our international CESifo research network offers ample opportunities for scientific exchange with top-class scholars. Guest researchers regularly visit the Institute. Thanks to our close cooperation with the University of Munich (LMU), our postdoctoral researchers are integrated into the junior faculty of the Department of Economics at LMU.
We seek candidates who are passionate about high-quality research on policy-relevant questions, have a strong drive to further their own research agenda, and are willing to communicate their research to the public and media. We are particularly interested in candidates working in the following fields:
1) Labor Economics: Candidates who apply microeconometric methods to topics such as family, gender, immigration, education, crime, health, and others.
2) International Trade: Candidates who conduct research on quantitative trade models and/or apply microeconometric methods to international trade.
3) Public Economics: Candidates whose research portfolio includes empirical public economics.
4) Digital Transformation: Candidates who conduct empirical research on the economic and social impacts of digital transformation.
5) Big Data Economics: Candidates in any field of economics whose research applies state-of-the-art machine learning and causal inference methods to innovative and unconventional data.
Candidates should hold a PhD in economics or be about to defend a PhD soon. Interested candidates should submit their application via econjobmarket.com. Applications should include a cover letter, CV, job market paper, and at least three reference letters.
The deadline for submitting applications is November 25, 2022. We will conduct virtual interviews as part of the 5th European Job Market in December. Fly-outs will start in January 2023.
Please feel free to contact jobmarket@ifo.de if you have any questions. For further information on careers at the ifo Institute, please visit https://www.ifo.de/en/about-us/ifo-careers.