Job Offers as Project Coordinator/PostDoc and Project Assistant/PhD Student for PolDigWork

PolDigWork – Politics and the Future of Work in Middle-Income Countries

The future of work has enormous implications for the politics and (core) policies of welfare states, especially social and labour market policies. New forms of digitalization and automation reshape how society ‘works’. Innovations such as bots and robots change the nature of work and create new types of employment (e.g. gig work) and economic sectors. They also destroy existing jobs, automatizing tasks and making whole branches of the economy redundant. Especially for middle-income countries we still know relatively little about the political consequences of the future of work. The project will employ mixed methods and a nested case study analysis of Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia to fill this research gap.

The project combines insights from existing surveys with an original survey experiment in the three countries. These findings will then be contrasted with results from a content analysis of social media and with information from expert interviews. With its comparative approach, the project will allow to understand how digitalization works in societies in which we see differently salient divides. Will digitalization provide new divides, reinforce existing divides or perhaps even mitigate them? The project will therefore contribute to the literature and theories on divides and cleavages in middle-income countries. Such questions and the underlying processes are harder to observe in countries like Germany, where informality is less salient, but still poses an important problem in the face of digitalization. The project will thus create insights even beyond the countries/ regions studied.

1) Scientific Coordinator/Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

Area of Responsibility

• scientific coordination of the project “PolDigWork – Politics and the Future of Work in Middle-Income Countries” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• design of basic elements of the project such as the theoretical framework, the research design, the methodology and the data collection of the project
• conduct scientific research as part of the research project, including data collection and fieldwork
• taking over the organizational and financial aspects of the project management including the organization of project event

The above-mentioned project work offers the possibility of further scientific qualification (e. g. habilitation) in the subject area of the project.

Apply here for the job as Scientific Coordinator/Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

2) Scientific Project Assistant/PhD Student (f/m/d)

Area of Responsibility

• participation in the project “PolDigWork – Politics and the Future of Work in Middle-Income Countries”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• contribute to basic elements of the project, such as the theoretical framework, the project’s research design/methodology, and the data collection process
• undertake work packages of the project including country case studies and data collection
• conduct project research, including data collection and field research
• participate in the organizational and financial aspects of project administration, including the organization of project events

With the above-mentioned project work, there is an opportunity for own further scientific qualification (e. g. PhD) in the subject area of the project

Apply here for the job as Scientific Project Assistant/PhD Student (f/m/d)

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