PhDs to be hired should have at least 3 years of relevant post-doctoral experience and scientific production. In exceptional cases, duly justified, FCT may consider accepting applicants with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience.

We are seeking a PhD in Economics graduate with an expertise, research experience and a good publication record on microeconomics and related topics. Preferences will be given to expertise on the field of industrial organization.

The researcher will join up CETE (Research Centre in Industrial, Labour and Managerial Economics) but is likely to work also with members of CEMPRE. CETE and CEMPRE are the two research centres in Economics at FEP (Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto) which are granted with FCT funding, both graded Very Good at the last evaluation.

The researcher will beneficiate of the availability of an outstanding micro-longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset  of the Ministry of Labour - Quadros de Pessoal - that covers about 3 million workers and 300 thousand firms, and 350 thousand establishments, for the period 1985-2006.

The researcher will have no teaching obligations but may be called on to cooperate within the masters and PhD Programmes. 

We offer a 5 years contract, in accordance to the rules of the programme Ciência 2008.

We offer an annual gross wage compensation of Eur 43426 (forty three thousand, four hundred and twenty six euros) with outside work restrictions, plus a meal bonus of Eur 4,11 (four euros and eleven cents) per working day. Mandatory employee's social security contributions rate is 11% of gross compensation. As for income tax, for a single person without children, a rate of 23% applies.

To apply:

Applicants should send their CV, a cover letter indicating their main motivations for the job and subject preferences, two reference letters and pdf files with current research papers, no later than 30 September  2008, to the address fep2008@fep.up.pt.

CETE is a research centre of the Faculty of Economics of Porto. Its main purposes are the promotion of scientific research and of advanced training in its specific research fields. Applied research is also considered as a means of fostering co-operation between the university and the community at large.

The centre congregates research with a common interest in applied research particularly in the fields of labour economics, industrial organisation, agricultural economics, the economics of tourism and corporate finance.

Research in labour economics is clustered around three major topics. The first takes a demand-side approach to study the structure of labour adjustment costs, the dynamics of wages and the labour market consequences of job security policies. Over and undereducation and their impact on wages is the second research topic in the field of labour economics. It aims at analysing the gap between schooling levels on offer and those demanded by employers to fill existing and opening vacancies. Both these topics are addressed using large longitudinal datasets made available to CETE researchers by the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Labour. The third line of research analyses the labour market consequences of employment public policies, especially in terms of the gender dimension of participation and the changes of the European social model.

In the field of industrial organisation research has been clustering around issues such as market power, strategic commercial policy, vertical differentiation, mixed oligopolies and economic regulation. Research in the economics of tourism is also actively pursued especially through the modelisation of the demand of tourism.

In the area of agricultural economics, the research projects have been focusing on the microeconomic analysis of productive efficiency and productivity growth as well as on the decomposition of productivity growth into a scale effect, an efficiency change effect and a technological change effect. All the efficiency and productivity growth measures are estimated using the generalised maximum entropy formalism.

For CETE, the area of Corporate Finance is a new but fast-developing one. The potential for growth exists due to the availability of Datastream, a large dataset with financial and accounting data, which opens up the way to empirical research in this field, but also due to very promising theoretical developments at the frontier between Industrial Organisation and Corporate Finance.

CETE has also been actively sponsoring advanced courses in microeconomics offered as part of the Masters and Doctoral Programmes at the Faculty of Economics of Porto. A number of foreign researchers visited the Faculty upon being invited by CETE.