Overview
In this role you support a SNSF-funded project on global taxation, profit shifting, and tax havens. You will work with linked Swiss administrative data to generate causal evidence and policy insights. You collaborate within a strong research team at ETH Zurich to analyze micro-level data and produce materials for presentation. You contribute to shaping empirical analyses and workshops, driving rigorous, policy-relevant research. This is an opportunity to develop your academic skills in a vibrant, collaborative environment with potential for PhD progress.
Leistungen / Benefits
- Hands-on experience contributing to high-quality academic research
- Highly collaborative work environment
- Professional supervision
- Flexible working hours
- ASVZ sports activities
- Salary and pension benefits according to ETH regulation
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Prepare and analyze micro-level data underlying the project questions
- Manage linked datasets (cleaning, merging, quality checks)
- Conduct descriptive analyses of administrative and survey data
- Run guided empirical analyses using reduced-form causal inference methods
- Prepare presentation slides and research materials
- Assist in organizing an academic workshop
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Completed master's degree in economics, political science, or other quantitative social science
- Strong interest in policy-relevant taxation and public economics
- Reliable, structured, precise working style
- Good planning and coordination skills
- Curious, self-motivated with ownership over work
- Solid foundations in causal inference methods (e.g., diff-in-diff, IV, randomized experiments)
- Proficiency in Stata and/or R
- German and English proficiency; strong writing in English and German
- Interest in applied scientific research; PhD later is a plus but not required
- Experience with large-scale data cleaning is a plus
- curious
- proactive
- reliable
- causal inference methods (diff-in-diff, instrumental variables, randomized experiments)
- Stata
- R
Junior Researcher in Public Economics and International Taxation in Zürich Arbeitgeber: ETH Zürich
ETH Zürich ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der Ihnen die Möglichkeit bietet, aktiv an der Gestaltung der Zukunft des Forschungsdatenmanagements mitzuwirken. Mit einem interdisziplinären Arbeitsumfeld, attraktiven Beschäftigungsbedingungen und zahlreichen Vorteilen wie Kinderbetreuung und öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln fördert ETH Zürich nicht nur Ihre berufliche Entwicklung, sondern auch eine inklusive und nachhaltige Unternehmenskultur. Hier haben Sie die Chance, in einer sichtbaren Position mit hoher Verantwortung zu arbeiten und einen bleibenden Einfluss auf die Forschung zu nehmen.
