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Post-Doctoral Researcher in Migration and Health Inequalities

Apply for a post-doctoral researcher position at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, focusing on migration and health inequalities.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities. Led by Silvia Loi, this group brings together experts from Demography, Quantitative Sociology, and Social Epidemiology to address the critical question: Why do immigrants age in poorer health compared to non-immigrants?

  • Quantify the gaps in healthy ageing trajectories between immigrants and non-immigrants by age, gender, socioeconomic status, and their interactions.
  • Identify critical events and circumstances in immigrants’ lives that put them on a different healthy ageing trajectory from non-immigrants.
  • Study the impact of family composition and family ties in mitigating health inequalities by migration background.

The successful candidate will have a PhD (or receive it soon) in Demography, Sociology, Social Epidemiology, or related fields, with a strong quantitative background. Skills in R or Stata are highly desirable, and experience with register data is an advantage.

Apply online via this survey by 28 February 2025. The position offers a 2-year contract with remuneration based on the German public sector salary structure (TVöD Bund).

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