Research Analyst in Economics (f/m) - Ref: 25-33

The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

is recruiting a

Research Analyst in Economics (f/m)

• Ref: 25-33
• 12 months fixed-term contract at LISER
• Full-time, 40hours/week
• Department : Labour Market (LM)
• Work location: Belval (Luxembourg)

Project description

Climate change is expected to worsen living conditions around the Globe over the coming decades. Consequently, economic, demographic and societal challenges emerge as key factors that will drive peoples’ behaviour. One fundamental adaptation strategy to climate change is human migration, by fleeing places under climate hazard and moving to destinations resilient to climatic shocks. Climate Change: Migration and Economics (CliC:ME) provides an innovative toolset to project and evaluate potential future dynamics of economies, societies and human mobility. Using a calibrated spatial general equilibrium model of the world economy, CliC:ME provides projections of the impacts of climate shocks on economic prosperity, inequality, and migration patterns all over the world. Crucially, CliC:ME aspires to deliver insights for policymakers about the location of communities subject to extreme climate risk, as well as about potential adaptation policies that would reduce the damaging effects of climate over the 21st century.

Your Role

In this context, the successful candidate will have the following missions:

• Contribute to the development of the quantitative spatial general equilibrium model ;
• Calibrate model parameters by identifying key transition channels of climate shocks to the economy and society using geospatial data ;
• Apply the model to specific climate shocks / geographical areas by running case studies ;
• Communicate the results of modelling to academic and non-academic audience.

Your Profile

• Master in economics or data science ;
• Experience in research in development, international or climate economics ;
• Familiarity with general equilibrium structural modelling and calibration of theoretical macroeconomic models ;
• Programming skills in R and Stata ;
• Experience with large-scale data sets (e.g. global migration matrices, census microdata, big data)
• Interest in topics related to conducted research: impacts of climate change, adaptation policies, migration politics ;
• Excellent written and spoken English, as well as easiness to provide technical and non-technical presentations of conducted research.

LISER particularly encourage female applicants to apply

What we offer

• A dynamic and international research environment with attractive working conditions and a stimulating work environment ;
• Flexibility in the organisation of the working hours and the possibility of teleworking ;
• Competitive remuneration according to the Collective Labour Agreement in force (half of a 13th month salary, meal vouchers, etc.) ;
• Investment in career support and development (trainings, seminars, participation to international meetings and conferences) ;
• 32.5 days of annual leave for a full-time contract.

The yearly gross salary for full-time position is set to 77’264,63 euros.

How to apply

Please submit your complete application in English via https://jobs.liser.lu/jobs by including the following documents :

• Curriculum vitae ;
• Motivation letter ;
• Recent piece of research ;
• Copy of your Master diploma ;
• Two reference letters (to be uploaded with the application documents or sent separately to recruitment@liser.lu).

Please note that the position will remain open until filled

For administrative matters, please contact Mrs. Vanya KIROVA at recruitment@liser.lu

Why LISER?

LISER is a publicly funded research institute located in Luxembourg and dedicated to applied empirical research in economic, social and spatial sciences. The Institute attracts top researchers from all over the world and high-level student training is a vibrant part of the Institute’s activities. LISER staff consists of approx. 200 employees, about 60% of the staff being researchers; mainly from the fields of economics, geography and sociology. The vision of the institute is to be a socio-economic research institute internationally recognised, focused on scientific excellence and societal impact, able to contribute through multi-disciplinary and intersectoral research, in an active and inclusive way to a sustainable and inclusive society at national and international level.

The institute is located on the new Belval campus in the south of Luxembourg (Cité des Sciences, Luxembourg), which hosts the University of Luxembourg and a substantial part of the country’s publicly funded research facilities, i.e. LISER, the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) cross-national data centre, the Luxembourg institutes of Health (LIH) and of Science and Technology (LIST). Information on research in Luxembourg is accessible via the national EURAXESS platform.

LISER is an Equal Opportunity Employer