Jacob Vigdor and Mark Long, CSDE Affiliates and UW Professors of Public Policy, recently discussed the findings of the minimum-wage study they helped conduct.
Vigdor wrote an editorial for NY Daily News in which he qualifies parts of the study and suggests that the minimum wage might not be the best method for reducing income inequality in skilled service- and technology-oriented economies.
Long was interviewed by CNBC about the study’s scope and implications. He notes that the latest hike from $11 to $13 might have been “too fast for businesses to adjust,” but also cautions others from generalizing the data to other locales—the ways in which Seattle breaks down employment and wage data are fairly unique.
You can read Vigdor’s column here and watch Long’s interview here.
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position for a sociologist with an interest in environmental issues. The appointment will be half in Sociology and half in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. A variety of substantive interests in sociology will be considered, including but not limited to how history, politics, economics, geography, urban life, social movements, ideologies, social networks, culture, and inequality affect or result from environmental concerns and issues. Interest in interdisciplinary approaches and a commitment to collaborations across the natural and social sciences are both important. Candidates should have an active program of research in progress that may encompass a variety of methodological approaches, and for more senior candidates, a substantial record of publications in major journals and/or books from established publishers. A strong commitment to excellent teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels is essential.
Applicants should provide a cover letter including a brief statement of research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae including list of publications, and samples of recent scholarship. Applicants for a non-tenured position should arrange to have three letters of reference submitted to Academic Jobs Online by the letter writers.
The Data Science Program at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach Data Science Connector courses should an opening arise. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending on the needs of the department. Positions may range from 25%-100% time.
Successful candidates will teach freshman/sophomore level courses, typically 2 units, listed as L&S 88-x that connect CS/Info/Stat c8 Foundations of Data Science with other disciplines, such as Neuroscience, Legal Studies, Public Health, Demography, English or others. The Connector courses are intended to be taken concurrently with the Foundations course, or following it. Course design and syllabus will leverage the sequence of computational and statistical techniques that students learn in the Foundations course. Teaching a Data Science course includes holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, and preparing course materials.
The Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) at Iowa State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the area of family economic wellbeing. We seek candidates who are dedicated to producing high quality research, teaching, and service/outreach and are interested in joining a dynamic multidisciplinary faculty. Position responsibilities include: maintaining a focused program of research and publication, seeking external funding, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of family finance, advising graduate students, and contributing to the university’s land-grant mission. Iowa State University seeks candidates who are interested in contributing to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching, and outreach. Required Qualifications: Doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies, Family/Consumer/Household Economics, Financial Counseling/Planning, or related fields such as Sociology, Psychology, Behavioral Finance, and Public Policy. In addition, an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor requires an established record of scholarly publications and external funding. An applicant who has not completed the doctoral program must include documentation indicating the likelihood of completion by date of hire. Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated advanced quantitative and/or qualitative training grounded in theory.
Lee Fiorio, a CSDE Funded Fellow and UW doctoral student in Geography, was recently profiled in UW Today for his work documenting the geography of race. After studying racial and ethnic data from 52 metropolitan areas across the US, Fiorio found that the effects of the 20th century’s “white flight”—the migration of whites from the city center to the suburbs—still lingers despite recent resurgences in downtown living. Fiorio also presented this research last month at the Ninth International Conference on Population Geographies. You can read the full story below and learn more about Fiorio’s work here.
A big, administrative, data revolution is underway in many parts of the world. As only one example of this, consider that Austria, Germany, Israel, Singapore, and Switzerland either fully or partly replaced traditional enumerations with administrative versions in their most recent headcounts. Countless other countries have, or are about to, investigate the plausibility of moving towards administrative censuses in the near future. Defined as data collected for regulatory (rather than research) purposes, administrative data gives researchers the ability to access an array of education, health, tax, and even financial transaction records. Administrative data is a frontier for learning more about populations within and across countries.
For this special issue of the Journal of Population Research, we invite papers that involve the use of administrative data to study immigration and migration. In their papers, authors should describe the data they use, present innovation results from these data, and show how these new data advance the knowledge base.
Please note that the purpose of the special issue is not to discuss the ethical and privacy implications of administrative data. Authors might inevitably touch on this question, but the issue’s primary goal is to provide a space for social scientists to showcase the work they are doing with administrative data sources.
Notes for Prospective Authors
Papers for this special issue will be assessed in a two-step process. First, interested authors should submit an abstract to the guest editor for consideration. Only successful authors will be asked for a full manuscript. These papers should not have been previously published nor currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere, as they will undergo a peer-review process. An invitation to submit a full paper to the Journal of Population Research is not a guarantee of acceptance.
Important Dates
Abstracts are requested from interested parties by July 15 and the editor will then invite for a full paper with final manuscripts expected no later than September 30.
Editors and Notes
Please email your abstracts to tedmcdon@unb.ca or mhaan2@uwo.ca.
The Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-stream faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2018. The substantive area of specialization is environmental sociology. The Department is especially interested in attracting candidates with diverse backgrounds and interests, who will be capable of successfully working with a multicultural and multiethnic student population. You can view the full posting and apply below.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Science is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join a multi-disciplinary team working on the ESRC funded research project, entitled: ‘Son preference and sex selection against females in the UK: Evidence, causes, trends and implications’. (2017 – 2020; Grant Ref: ES/N01877X/1).
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated research scientist with a strong background in quantitative/statistical methods. The Postdoctoral Research Assistant will work closely with Dr Sylvie Dubuc (PI on the project, Department of Geography and Environmental Science) and support the development of the research project, analysing family childbearing dynamics with respect to gender/son preferences among specific Asian communities in the UK. In collaboration with Prof M. Unnithan (Anthropology, Sussex), the project uses mixed methods and an inter-disciplinary approach combining secondary data analyses of available demographic data from various sources and a qualitative analysis of inter-generational family dynamics within British Asian communities. Project partners include the Department of Health (UK government) and the ETHOX centre of Oxford. Through the engagement of a variety of stakeholders the project seeks to provide the best evidence-based knowledge on son preference and its implications, including prenatal sex-selection to inform policies promoting gender justice.
More information is available below.
The Population Research Centre of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) is presently seeking to fill an assistant professor position (1.0 fte) in the field of Population Geography.
The position has as preferred starting date September 1, 2017, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Deadline for applying is July 11, 2017, 23:59 Dutch local time. More information is available below in the full posting.
Submissions are open for the 2nd Annual Pacific Northwest Labor Day Workshop, held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. While abstracts and extended abstracts are both welcome, a slight preference will be given to full working papers that still need significant work and would benefit from the workshop format. Graduate students going on the job market in 2017-2018 are encouraged to apply.
This year, one discussant will also be assigned to each paper. If you are interested in serving as a discussant, please email the organizers with your areas of interest.
Please send submissions and discussant inquiries to pnwldorganize@gmail.com. If you don’t receive a confirmation email within 72 hours, please re-send or email knoxm@uw.edu. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm on July 14, and decisions will be made by mid-August.