진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

Job reference: ECON-INV-INDF-2025-02

Job position
One open-ended postdoctoral position to carry out research tasks for the project Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries funded by the EU-ERC, ID no. 101088060, in accordance with article 23 bis of Law 14/2011 on science, technology and innovation.

Funding body and principal investigator
EU’s Horizon Europe programme. European Research Council Consolidator grant ‘Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries’, 2024–2029.

This project studies the effects of climate change on labour and capital flows in developing countries using micro-data from Brazil.

Prof. Paula Bustos (PhD Harvard) is an ICREA Research Professor at UPF and Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). She is also a Research Fellow at the European Economic Association, Chair of the EEA Women in Economics Committee, CEPR Research Fellow and co-leader of Trade and Spatial Frictions Theme of the STEG-CEPR program. https://sites.google.com/view/paula-bustos-economist/homepage

Job description:
For methodological objective b2, point (i), the main tasks to be carried out by the selected candidate will be the following:

• Data analysis: processing and organization of microdata sets.

• Statistical analysis: application of statistical methodologies to the data.

• Programming (code editing): adaptation of existing scripts and code packages (in R, Python, Stata, or others).

• Development and quantification of spatial models.

Category: postdoctoral researcher, level 2

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract period: it is expected that this contract is for ten months, ending in August 2025.

Since this contract will be financed through an extra-budgetary allocation resulting from external earmarked income, it may be terminated on objective grounds due to the insufficiency of said allocation to maintain this contract, in accordance with Article 52(e) of the Workers’ Statute.