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Postdoctoral Scholar in Economic Inequality – the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY Graduate Center

Job ID 28686

Full-time, 2-year appointment, beginning August 2025

Salary: $90,000/year, plus benefits and access to funding for research-related expenses

The Stone Center is hiring a postdoctoral scholar (CUNY contract title: research associate) with a recent Ph.D. carrying out quantitative, empirical research on one or more of the following, in relation to the United States or multiple countries:

Disparities in labor market outcomes (e.g., activity rates, working time, occupation, earnings);
Inequalities and insufficiencies related to household income or wealth;
Economic disparities within or between groups (e.g., by gender, race, ethnicity, migration status, family structure, and/or educational attainment);
Policy, institutional, and other determinants of multiple forms of economic inequality/insufficiency.

Applicants should have:   

Ph.D. degree in economics, sociology, political science, public policy, or a related social science discipline, completed no more than seven years prior to the application date
Ph.D. degree must be awarded before the start date, August 2025
Research portfolio demonstrating experience with empirical, methodological, or theoretical scholarship on socio-economic inequality and/or social mobility   
High level of empirical and statistical skills

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Applications due by October 30, 2024