Postdoktorand / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter: Satellitenkonto für soziale Produktion in der Schweiz — Universität Zürich
- Ort
- Zürich
- Vertrag
- full-time
- Veröffentlicht
- vor 71 Tagen
Rollenüberblick
UZH Healthy Longevity Center
Start of employment by arrangement following selection, temporary
Social production is a macroeconomic indicator that extends the national accounts beyond GDP by placing a monetary value on unpaid socially productive activity that creates genuine social, environmental, and economic value but remains invisible in the current economic frame – including care work, volunteering, civic participation, mentoring, ecological stewardship, and contributions to open knowledge.
- UZH Healthy Longevity Center
- Start of employment by arrangement following selection, temporary
- Your responsibilities
- Aligning the established social production method with European System of Accounts (ESA 2010), adapting how it is applied and reported while preserving the underlying methodology.
- Essential: A degree in economics at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
- Strong quantitative analytical skills and demonstrated ability to analyse and interpret economic, survey or official statistical data.
Hauptaufgaben
- Your responsibilities
- Aligning the established social production method with European System of Accounts (ESA 2010), adapting how it is applied and reported while preserving the underlying methodology.
- Mapping the social production categories to available SAKE data, assessing coverage, and conducting a gap analysis of categories not yet captured.
- Compiling and analysing the relevant Swiss data sources to produce the pilot account's first estimates.
- Building the account into a working statistical product, documented and reproducible so that it could be updated on a regular cycle by Switzerland and/or other nations wishing to adopt the approach.
- Co-authoring research and policy outputs, including a joint report on social production in Switzerland.
- Preparing a methodological report setting out options to extend category coverage, with recommendations for Switzerland and a generalisable approach that other national statistical offices could follow.
- Applying the resulting social production measures to examine productive contribution across the lifecourse, with particular attention to the contributions of older people and the implications for healthy longevity and measures of demographic dependency.
- Working in person within the National Accounts Division and liaising across FSO units to resolve questions of definition, derivation, and method.
- Maintaining reproducible workflows and documentation consistent with official statistics standards.
Wichtige Anforderungen
- Essential: A degree in economics at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
- Strong quantitative analytical skills and demonstrated ability to analyse and interpret economic, survey or official statistical data.
- An interest in economic and social measurement, including the measurement of non-market production and/or social metrics.
- A translational research orientation, comfortable working across an academic research team and a national statistical office and communicating with policy audiences.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce clear, rigorous analytical and technical reports.
- Fluency in English. Desirable:
- Familiarity with the System of National Accounts (SNA) and/or European System of Accounts (ESA), including experience with or knowledge of satellite accounting.
Was das Unternehmen bietet
- Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
Bewerbungsprozess
- Second, they will apply the resulting measures to examine how productive contribution changes across the lifecourse, including the contribution of older people, providing a new empirical basis for understanding healthy longevity and the economic implications of population ageing.
- A good understanding of macroeconomic measurement and national accounting concepts, with the ability to interpret and apply statistical and accounting conventions.
- An interest in the application of economic and social measurement to healthy longevity, demographic change, the care economy, fiscal sustainability, and the intersection of market and non-market production.
- Experience with time-use surveys or unpaid-work modules in labour force surveys.
- Experience working with survey microdata or other official statistical data.
- Experience with time-series, price or index methods, including constant-price adjustment.
- Experience working in or with a statistical office or national accounts setting.
- Proficiency in statistical software such as R, Stata, Python or equivalent. A record of peer-reviewed publication and technical reporting.
Kontakte
- Working time is divided between the FSO National Accounts Division in Neuchâtel, where the day-to-day work sits, and the UZH Centre for Healthy Longevity, with research supervision shared between the partners under a light joint-oversight arrangement.
Weitere Details
- A degree in economics at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
- Fluency in English.
- Proficiency in statistical software such as R, Stata, Python or equivalent. A record of peer-reviewed publication and technical reporting.
- Working proficiency in German or French.
- A clearly defined three-year horizon to deliver a programme of work with direct policy relevance. Working arrangement and independence:
- The underlying method is published and open.
- Find out more: https://www.uzh.ch/de/explore/work.html.
- Childcare at the kihz foundation of UZH and ETH Learning and Development
- Language Center run jointly with ETH Zurich
- Food and drinks at reduced prices in the UZH cafeterias Lunch-Check-card with UZH contribution
Notizen und Originalinhalt
- Your profile
- Proficiency in statistical software such as R, Stata, Python or equivalent.
- A record of peer-reviewed publication and technical reporting.
- What we offer:
- A clearly defined three-year horizon to deliver a programme of work with direct policy relevance.
- Working arrangement and independence:
- Work-Life Balance
- Childcare at the kihz foundation of UZH and ETH
- Learning and Development
- Food and drinks at reduced prices in the UZH cafeterias
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