Research Analyst in Economics

**Date**:1 Oct 2025

**Location**: Esch-sur-Alzette, LU, L-4366

**Company**:LISER

**The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)**

**is recruiting a**

**Research Analyst**in Economics** (f/m)**

- **Ref: 25-33**:

- **12 months fixed-term contract at LISER**:

- **Full-time, 40hours/week**:

- **Department : Labour Market (LM)**:

- **Work location: Belval (Luxembourg)**

**Project description**:
**Your Role**:

- Contribute to the development of the quantitative spatial general equilibrium model ;
- Calibrate model parameters by identifying key transition channels of climate shocks to the economy and society using geospatial data ;
- Communicate the results of modelling to academic and non-academic audience.

**Your Profile**:

- Master in economics or data science ;
- Experience in research in development, international or climate economics ;
- Familiarity with general equilibrium structural modelling and calibration of theoretical macroeconomic models ;
- Programming skills in R and Stata ;
- Experience with large-scale data sets (e.g. global migration matrices, census microdata, big data)
- Interest in topics related to conducted research: impacts of climate change, adaptation policies, migration politics ;
- Excellent written and spoken English, as well as easiness to provide technical and non-technical presentations of conducted research.

**_ LISER particularly encourage female applicants to apply_**

**What we offer**:

- A dynamic and international research environment with attractive working conditions and a stimulating work environment ;
- Flexibility in the organisation of the working hours and the possibility of teleworking ;
- Competitive remuneration according to the Collective Labour Agreement in force (half of a 13th month salary, meal vouchers, etc.) ;
- Investment in career support and development (trainings, seminars, participation to international meetings and conferences) ;
- 32.5 days of annual leave for a full-time contract.

The yearly gross salary for full-time position is set to 77’264,63 euros.

**How to apply**:

- Curriculum vitae ;
- Motivation letter ;
- Recent piece of research ;
- Copy of your Master diploma ;

**Please note that the position will remain open until filled**

**Why LISER?**:
LISER is a publicly funded research institute located in Luxembourg and dedicated to applied empirical research in economic, social and spatial sciences. The Institute attracts top researchers from all over the world and high-level student training is a vibrant part of the Institute’s activities. LISER staff consists of approx. 200 employees, about 60% of the staff being researchers; mainly from the fields of economics, geography and sociology. The vision of the institute is to be a socio-economic research institute internationally recognised, focused on scientific excellence and societal impact, able to contribute through multi-disciplinary and intersectoral research, in an active and inclusive way to a sustainable and inclusive society at national and international level.

The institute is located on the new Belval campus in the south of Luxembourg (Cité des Sciences, Luxembourg), which hosts the University of Luxembourg and a substantial part of the country’s publicly funded research facilities, i.e. LISER, the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) cross-national data centre, the Luxembourg institutes of Health (LIH) and of Science and Technology (LIST). Information on research in Luxembourg is accessible via the national EURAXESS platform.

**_ LISER is an Equal Opportunity Employer_