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WANTED: Research Assistants

• I am currently looking for research assistants!

  • Topics: Intergenerational Mobility, Distribution and Taxation of Wealth and Inheritances

  • Hours: Flexible between 8 and 20 hours per week

  • When: Positions start between June and September 2024

  • Contract duration: 6 - 12 months, with the possibility of extention

  • Required skills: R Coding, experience in working with (ideally large) micro data or geo-coded data. Knowledge of German language is not required.

  • Location: Reserach Institute Economics of Inequality, WU Vienna; possibility of remote work after an initial presence period

  • Application: Send (a) your CV, (b) a short motivation letter outlining how you meet the required criteria outlined above and your main research interests, and (c) an R Code snippet to franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at.

Summer 2024 Edition, Research Seminar Economics of Inequality, WU Vienna

• I am organizing a research seminar on the economics of inequality, broadly defined, at WU Vienna. Check out the summer 2024 program and join us if you are in Vienna.

Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and Equality of Opportunity

• Together with the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (Valentina Contreras and Pedro Salas-Rojo) and the ZEW (Guido Neidhöfer) I am organizing a workshop on wealth inequality, intergenerational mobility, and equality of opportunity.

  • Keynotes speaches will be delivered by Susan Dynarski, Harvard University and Fabian Pfeffer, LMU Munich.

  • The workshop is held at WU Vienna from November 21 - 22, 2024. The submission deadline is May 15. There are no participation fees.

  • All details can be found on this website.

PhD and Postdoc Positions on Intergenerational Social Mobility

• For our project MOBILITY-PATH: Multidimensional Intergenerational Mobility and Pathways to Upward Mobility in Austria, I am hiring a PhD student via the Research Institute Economics of Inequality at WU Vienna and a Postdoctoral Researcher via the CEU Department of Economics and Business together with Alice Kügler and Petra Sauer.

• Position announcement for the PhD researcher

• Position announcement for the Postdoc

• I won a research grant for the project MOBILITY-PATH: Multidimensional Intergenerational Mobility and Pathways to Upward Mobility in Austria from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), following the call Quantitative Data Research: Empirical Social Science. Equipped with € 594.435, our research team based at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Central European University will provide comprehensive evidence on intergenerational social mobility and, in particular, its underlying drivers.

• First, MOBILTY-PATH gathers data to provide novel evidence on the extent and heterogeneity of intergenerational mobility across multiple dimensions in Austria.

• Second, we will investigate mechanisms underlying social mobility by tracing children’s life-cycle outcomes by parental background. MOBILITY-PATH aims to shed light on the extent to which the luck of being born into a specific family is mitigated or aggravated by early-childhood factors such as neighborhoods and schooling, whether broad-access vocational training schemes and labor market conditions can lead to intergenerational (upward) mobility later in life, and what role tertiary education institutions such as the Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) can play in facilitating mobility. We can answer these questions by exploiting a novel combination of various individual-level administrative and register datasets.

New Seminar Series - Economics of Inequality, WU Vienna

• I am organizing a new seminar series on the economics of inequality at WU Vienna, starting in 2023. Here are all the details, and a link to our google calender. The seminar will center on empirical research investigating the causes and consequences of (socio-)economic inequalities and their measurement, from both micro- and macro perspectives.

Wanted - Research Assistants

• We are currently hiring research assistants for a project on inheritances and wealth inequality using an innovative data set and research design. The call is available via my co-authors webpage. If you are interested in joining the project as research assistant, please get in touch also after the deadline!

• Here is the program and documentation.
• I am organizing a workshop on Intergenerational Mobility and Wealth Inequality to be held at Vienna University of Economics and Business on November 17 and 18, 2022.
• Public keynote lectures will be delivered by Miles Corak (CUNY) and Salvatore Morelli (Roma Tre / CUNY), and the program features an outstanding list of researchers affiliated with the Stone-Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (CUNY) and from WU’s Research Institute Economics of Inequality (INEQ) - and beyond. The workshop receives generous funding from the City of Vienna, the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and the Vienna Chamber of Labour.
• On November 16, there will be two pre-conference workshops for MSc and PhD students. (1) Piotr Paradowski from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) will introduce the Luxembourg Wealth Study and teach essentials of using this data. (2) An amazing set of researchers provide practical tips for writing research papers, particularly in the field of income and wealth inequality.

• I am organizing two special sessions at the upcoming 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography; Dublin June 7-9, 2022.
• The session The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility seeks, for instance, papers on geographic perspectives on social mobility, the measurement and interpration of place-effects, the intergenerational effects of placed-based redistribution policies and local infrastructures (such as public housing, health and childcare institutions) and research discussing challenges of measuring of local/regional social mobility.
• The second session on Income and Wealth Inequality Within and Between Regions is interested in work that jointly studies inequality within and between regions, studies addressing and underpinning the choice of (local) comparison groups, MAUP, geographic price level/living standard adjustments, and research that makes use of novel data sources among others.
• Link to Submission Portal