Postdoctoral Fellow - Labour Economics with a focus on Immigration and Earnings
University of Alberta
- Toronto, ON Edmonton, AB
- $68,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Education: PhD in Economics, Labor Economics, or related fields (obtained within the past 5 years)
- Econometrics: Demonstrated expertise in advanced micro-econometric analysis with popular economic analysis software such as STATA and/or R, SAS, Fortran
- Ability to conduct high-quality research.
- Communication skills: Effective writing and verbal communication skills. The ability to collaborate effectively in a research team with diverse academic backgrounds.
- Experience in working with administrative data such as panel data and repeated cross-sectional data.
- Strong programming skills is a plus.
- Experience in individual economic decision modeling, wage structure, labor supply, causal analysis is preferred.
- Writing: Demonstrated high-quality academic writing.
- Collecting and analyzing micro-level labour force, employment, wage data for immigrants and other demographic groups in Canada, the U.S. and other major immigration countries.
- Develop human capital models to address income/wage gaps between different demographic groups (immigrants vs. natives).
- Build econometric models to analyze other labour market outcomes including health outcomes.
- Analyzing economic impacts from major economic shocks such as COVID-19 and AI.
- Investigate the role of immigration policy in shaping income/wage gaps between natives and immigrants.
- Prepare presentations, scientific reports, and writing academic papers related to the research.
- Cover Letter
- CV
- A copy of graduate program transcript (unofficial)
- Certificates/Diplomas, PhD degree (Master degree if available)
- At least one research paper
- Contact information for 2 references