Post of duty: Washington DC- USA
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean face challenges of coverage, adequacy, and sustainability of pension programs. These problems arise from rapidly aging, informality, and, in some cases, relatively generous benefits.
In developed countries, there have been significant reforms to pensions and regulations relating to older workers. These policy changes have been accompanied by non-trivial increases in the labor supply of the elderly over the same period. This trend has occurred in multiple countries, raising the question of whether the policy reforms have caused the increases in labor supply. It is, therefore, a topic that has attracted significant attention from policymakers and researchers.
Much less is known about labor supply of older worker sin in low and middle-income countries despite the fact the aging transition is occurring much faster in non-high income countries.
VPS is developing a research agenda that will cover three topics (i) the evidence on how employment rates among the elderly have changed in developed and developing countries over recent decades and the main factors that are thought to influence older workers’ labor supply (ii) understand whether policy reforms have been significant for explaining changes in employment in Latin America and the Caribbean, exploiting significant changes in pension design and (iii) understand the impact of pension reform in access to pension benefits, poverty, inequality and overall fiscal sustainability of pension systems.
The Research Fellow program offers selected candidates the opportunity to provide support in the development of VPS’ research work, including organizing and analyzing databases, elaborating descriptive statistics, and suggesting ways of performing estimations. The Research Fellow will also help prepare the working papers or other publications, presentations, and different research-related activities, as needed.
The program is open to citizens from IDB member countries who are under 33 years of age as of April, 2024 (or 38 years of age for the diversity groups defined in the Bank’s Young Professionals Diversity Program) and have a graduate degree from a recognized university or accredited institution.
What you’ll do
Responsible person: Economic Principal Advisor VPS.
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At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our team in Human Resources carefully reviews all applications.
About IDB
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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