Positions as student programmers at The Department of Economics and Business Economics
Aarhus Universitet (AU)
The Department of Economics and Business Economics offers several short-term and longer-term positions as student programmers for students who want to engage in an academic environment and support researchers at the department with data work. An important part of your tasks will be empirical analyses, and during the employment, you will obtain access to the Danish register data. The positions are relevant for students with few years of enrollment as well as students who are about to start working on their master’s dissertations.
As a student programmer, you will be affiliated to one of the following centers: TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research (TFBC)
- Research areas: family interventions (with emphasis on improving school readiness and educational achievement of children of immigrants), teacher-child interactions (e.g. teacher-student matching, teacher working conditions, importance of teachers for student learning), development of math skills (e.g. impact of teacher gender on math skills or studies of gender gap in math skills across the distribution), politico-economic governance of the early childhood educational system (e.g. effects of the child-staff ratio or skilled teachers on child skills), and the general effect of educational interventions (e.g. comparison of effect sizes across age, time and type of intervention).
Contact person: Helena Skyt Nielsen, [email protected]
Research Centre for Firm and Industry Dunamics (FIND)
- Research areas: Firm and industry dynamics (e.g., firm growth, market entry/exit, market structure, mergers & acquisitions); Globalization, international trade, and offshoring; Firm heterogeneity (including productivity, product quality, technology, automation etc.); Interactions between firms and labor markets; Firm behaviour (including choices and strategies regarding product portfolios, pricing, R&D/innovation, etc.)
Contact person: Ina C. Jäkel, [email protected]
Or another research group working with register-based data, e.g.
Labor economics
- Research areas: Labor market dynamics and unemployment, empirical models of wage dispersion, job search behavior (and labor market policy), gender differences in labor market outcomes, marriage and divorce, labor market inequalities.Contact person: Rune M. Vejlin, [email protected]
Who can apply?
Students with
- Flair for data work (experience with SAS, Stata or R constitute an advantage)
- Excellent academic qualifications (as documented by the grade transcript)
- Experience from study programs within economics, math-econ, public policy, political science or similar
Your application (in Danish or English) should include: A statement of which research center you would like to be affiliated with and a motivation of this, a confirmation of enrolment (including grade transcript) and a CV.
Additional information about the positions
Applications must be submitted online and received by: 10 May, 2024.
Start-up is 15 August 2024 or as soon as possible by agreement.
Place of work and area of employment
The place of work is Fuglesangs Allé 4 8210 Aarhus V, and the area of employment is Aarhus University with related departments.
Requirements and terms
You are employed as student programmer with salary and other terms of employment in accordance with the organizational agreement between the Ministry of Finance and PROSA / Stat. The position is expected to include 2-10 working hours per week, and workloads may vary in periods. Employment is a fixed-term appointment, but there is an option of a short-term appointment (one semester) or a longer-term appointment (several years).
Working hours and term of appointment to be agreed with the employed candidates.
Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.
The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.
Aarhus University
Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 38,000 students (FTEs) and 8,300 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 935 million. Learn more at www.international.au.dk/
Department: Økonomi, Inst. f./Department of Economics and Business Economics
Deadline: 25 November 2024
Location: Aarhus V Fuglesangs Allé 4
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