Research assistant to Uppsala Immigration Lab and Urban Lab

The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year about 1,000 students participate in undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA) and PhD level courses. The research conducted at the department is mainly focused on labour economics, macroeconomics, political economics and public economics. Researchers at the department are frequently engaged as experts by the government and by the media, and interact with the society at large in a number of ways.

Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL) and Urban Lab are parts of a broad and leading research environment in empirical economics hosted by the Department of Economics and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research. Uppsala Immigration Lab and Urban Lab aim to further strengthen the activities through collaborations within academia and with the surrounding society. We study central social issues linked to migration, integration and urban development. Our research has a quantitative emphasis and uses rich data and state-of-the-art methods to create new knowledge. Our projects are run in collaboration with leading scholars in Sweden and abroad. 

Duties

We are looking for 1–2 research assistants to Uppsala Immigration Lab and Urban Lab for a temporary position of 6–12 months. As a research assistant, your main assignment will be to work on a project on geographic patterns in intergenerational mobility in Sweden, as well as other ongoing projects within UIl and Urban Lab. Tasks will include data cleaning and processing and assisting researchers with advanced econometric analysis using extensive register-based data.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree focused on quantitative analysis, for example in economics, political science, statistics or computer science.
• Experience in programming, such as with Stata, R, Python, or ArcGIS.
• Experience working with register data or other similar large datasets.
• Great emphasis is placed on personal qualities such as collaborative ability, initiative, flexibility and ability to independently analyze data.

Additional qualifications

• A Master's degree or started Master's degree in economics, political science, statistics or computer science is a merit.
• Good ability to express yourself clearly in both spoken and written Swedish or English.

About the employment

Salary: Individual salary.

Starting date: During march 2025, or as otherwise agreed.

Type of employment: Temporary position for 6–12 months.

Scope of employment: 100 %.

For further information about the position, contact: Professor Olof Åslund, olof.aslund@nek.uu.se, phone +46 (0)18-4715102.

How to apply

You apply via Uppsala University's recruitment system. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete in accordance with the advertisement and that it is received by the university no later than the last day for application. Attach only personal letter, CV and Bachelor, Master's or Master's thesis. Copies of grades and certificates are included in any interview. We evaluate applications continuously.

Please submit your application by 31 January, UFV-PA 2026/48.

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