2 PhD candidates in employment careers of young and old workers

The 2 PhD candidates will be part of the European Research Council (ERC) project “Righting the Wrongs, A Life Course Dynamics Approach for Non-Standard Employment (DYNANSE)”, which studies how non-standard employment relates to labour market (and social) inequalities. The project develops a method to produce error-corrected employment trajectories and applies it in the study of the careers of workers with non-standard employment contracts. For this purpose, it uses register and survey data from the Netherlands, Italy and Norway. The successful candidates will work on the substantial part of the project and bridge labour market theories with the empirical analysis of large datasets. One of them will focus on the study of employment careers of young workers, while the other will focus on the careers of older workers. They will work together with a group of faculty members with diverse backgrounds including sociology, economics and survey methodology. The research will be conducted in close collaboration with the National Statistical Institutes of the Netherlands (CBS), Italy (Istat) and Norway (SSB).

We are seeking highly motivated and talented researchers, able to develop their own research ideas within the project. The successful candidates need to have a strong interest in labour market theories as well as good knowledge of quantitative research methods and preferably longitudinal research methods.

Your duties

• Produce a PhD thesis on the role of non-standard employment in the career of young or older workers for the ERC project “Righting the Wrongs. A Life Course Dynamics Approach for Non-Standard Employment”
• Conduct high-quality research in the field of labour sociology, illustrated by international publications, presentations in conferences and communication of research results to the wider public
• Support ‘open science’ and work in a reproducible way and share tools and data with the wider scientific community
• Follow courses at the PhD level at the Graduate School of the Faculty of Social Sciences or elsewhere to collect 30 ECTS
• Take an active role in the collaboration with the National Statistical Institutes that are part of the ERC project. The successful candidate should be willing to spend a small number of months of her/his appointment abroad
• Assist in the teaching in courses in Sociology or Statistics and Methodology in courses of the curricula of the Faculty of Social Sciences