The Department of Economics and Business Economics offers several positions as student programmers for students who want to engage in an academic environment and support researchers at the department with data work.

As a student programmer you will work with data, programming in various coding languages, including SAS and Stata, and other activities supporting research at the research group or research center you will be affiliated with. An important part of your tasks will be empirical analyses, and during the employment, you will obtain access to the Danish register data.

The positions are monthly paid positions of up to 24 months' duration. Start-up is 1 October 2024, or later by agreement. Who can apply?
Students with:

• Flair for data work (experience with SAS, Stata or R constitute an advantage).
• Excellent academic qualifications (as documented by the grade transcript).
• Experience from study programs within economics, math-econ, public policy, political science or similar.

You will be affiliated with one of the following research groups – please write which position you are interested in:

The Research Centre for Firms and INdustry Dynamics (FIND) is seeking a student programmer to help with data work and other activities supporting research at the center.
Research areas include: Firm and industry dynamics (e.g., firm growth, market entry/exit,
market structure, mergers & acquisitions); Globalization, international trade, and
offshoring; Firm heterogeneity (including productivity, product quality, technology,
automation etc.); Interactions between firms and labor markets; Firm behaviour etc.

Contact person: Associate professor Ina C. Jäkel, inaj@econ.au.dk

Researchers in the labour and public policy group at the Department of Economics and Business Economics are seeking a student programmer to help with data work and other activities supporting their research projects on topics related to labour, education and health.

Contact person: Professor Maria Knoth Humlum, mhumlum@econ.au.dk Place of work
Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, and the area of employment is Aarhus University with related departments.

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