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In this section, you can find current opportunities for Research Assistant (RA) positions and internships within IGIER projects. 

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  • Post-doc position in labour economics 

Duration: 24 months 

Possible starting date: 1st September 2026

Professor of reference: prof. Thomas Le Barbanchon

Project: “WeSET- New Direct Empirical Evidence on Wage Setting” (Grant agreement ID: 101171473)

Research Project: 

First, the “WeSET- New Direct Empirical Evidence on Wage Setting” project examines the collective bargaining process between incumbent employees and their employers in France. We will conduct textual analysis of collective bargaining agreements. We will design surveys to follow the bargaining process within firms. Using quasi-experimental designs, we will study how the identity of the workers’ and employers’ representatives matter for agreement outcomes, and we will study overall bargaining efficiency. Secondly, we will leverage the extraordinary opportunities offered by online job boards to open up the wage setting process for external hires. We will complement matched onlinesearch and employment register data with detail firm and worker high-frequency surveys in both France and Sweden. We will provide a thorough analysis of selection into individual bargaining, and of the determinants of bargaining intensity and offers. We will test for bargaining theories using experimental information shocks.

Responsibilities in the Project: 

The Post- doc Researcher will contribute to the “Weset” ERC project, especially to the economic analysis on bargaining in the labor market. The analysis will mostly be empirical, but insights will be inspired by small-scale theoretical models. The Post- doc Researcher will be involved in survey design and survey collection, field experiment design and implemenation, and microeconometrics analysis of large administrative data, including unstructured text data.

Deadline  24/11/2025

More details: https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=867