PhD Traineeship in the Directorate General Economics at European Central Bank

You will be part of the Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division in the Directorate General Economics. We are a team of around 30 experts responsible for the analysis of the euro area labour market, long-term drivers of economic growth, including productivity, and cross-country analysis of macroeconomic vulnerabilities. We also look at economic issues relating to EU governance, with a focus on Next Generation EU and the deepening of Economic and Monetary Union. Our most recent work has focused on the drivers of the labour market, the role of structural changes (such as digitalisation, demographics and climate change) in the euro area economy and the impact of government policies to support the economy.

In your role as a PhD trainee, you will contribute to empirical work in the realms of labour markets, firm productivity, climate change, long-term drivers of economic growth, and macroeconomic risks and vulnerabilities in the euro area.

As a PhD trainee you will:

support the analytical agenda on key policy questions of the Division;
conduct empirical analyses using state-of-the-art economic and econometric models;

contribute to the enhancement of analytical, econometric and forecasting tools under the supervision of ECB experts;
have the opportunity to submit the resulting papers for publication in the ECB's Working Paper Series and academic journals.