Job Announcement
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in PUBLIC ECONOMICS 2024/2026
Roma Tre University - Department of Law
(“Distributional Financial Accounts for Italy: deriving high-frequency estimates of the wealth distribution, merging macro and micro data”)
deadline: October 26, 2023
The Department of Law at the University of Roma Tre wishes to make a two-years (1+1) appointment to join our growing research team of scholars working in the fields of income and wealth distribution, economics of climate transition, and taxation of income and wealth.
The successful candidate will be collaborating part-time in the development of a research project on wealth distribution under the supervision of Dr Salvatore Morelli, Assistant Professor in Public Economics at the University of Roma Tre and director of the GC Wealth Project at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The researcher will be responsible for analysing micro data, time series of aggregated data, conducting bibliographic research, redacting in-depth documents in relation to the specific objectives of the research. The researcher is expected to have a regular presence in the department (e.g. at least 2/3 days a week).
The successful candidate is welcome to support the organization of the Inequality in Rome seminar series run by our research team (see details here).
Finally, the postdoctoral researcher can have the opportunity to build ties with the GC Wealth Project, a core project advanced by our Roma Tre University team jointly with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This will include an affiliation as Associated Researcher with the Stone Center, as well as the possibility to work collaboratively with colleagues based in New York and, potentially, visiting the Stone Center.
Description and goal of the project
The Project “Distributional Financial Accounts for Italy: deriving high-frequency estimates of the wealth distribution, merging macro and micro data" - resp. Prof. Salvatore Morelli - belongs to a wider project funded by the national research grant PRIN2022 - Wealth, income, and consumption inequality after COVID-19 – CUP F53D23003070001 (P.I. Prof. Tullio Jappelli at the University of Naples Federico II, Co-P.I Prof. Salvatore Morelli at Toma Tre Univeristy - collaborators Dr. Franziska Disslebacher and Prof. Annalisa Scognamiglio).
The goal of the project is to construct quarterly measures of wealth distribution in Italy that are fully compatible with macroeconomic data on household balance sheets. Our goal is to produce timely estimates of inequality using available microeconomic estimates of Italian household wealth from a variety of sources, such as the household survey, Forbes rich list, and inheritance tax tabulations, combined with official macroeconomic data from financial accounts, published on a quarterly basis. The estimates will distribute macroeconomic aggregates among different groups of the population, such as the bottom 50 percent, the middle 40 percent, the top 1 percent, and even the top 0.01 percent, and allow for the calculation of wealth growth rates for different socioeconomic groups in a way that preserves consistency with official macroeconomic statistics.
The ideal candidate should have expertise in the fields of income and wealth distribution, or economics of climate transition, carbon pricing, and taxation of income and wealth. An excellent knowledge of English is required and knowledge; Expertise with survey data analysis and national accounts data can be an asset. The successful candidate should also be familiar with programming languages for statistical and econometric analysis (e.g. in Stata, R, SAS, Matlab).
Terms
Appointments will be on a one-year fixed-term contract (renewable for 1 more year) based in Rome and will get a desk space at the department of Law.
The annual gross salary will be € 38.000. The candidate should hold a PhD by the beginning of the new contract (mandatory beginning by the March 1st 2023).
Application Procedure
The application requires the submission of the Italian Application forms as found in the Public Call for applications (in Italian). The forms need to be signed and we need also a copy of your document.
To ease the process you can find an (unofficial) English translation of the public call here which can guide you in the process to understand how to fill in the original forms.
Once you fill in all the forms you submit these to ricerca.giurisprudenza@uniroma3.it
Also, if available, you can submit your letters of reference, cover letter, research project, or any other documentation directly to : ricerca.giurisprudenza@uniroma3.it
The closing date for applications is October 26, 2023.
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For any additional information: salvatore.morelli@uniroma3.it (cc: ricerca.giurisprudenza@uniroma3.it)
(please write “Postdoc Info” in the email object)