Junior Economist(s) - Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Company Description
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, that works to build better policies for better lives. Our mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards, and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges. From improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting.
The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Directorate, in line with the strategic objectives of the Secretary-General, helps OECD member countries and other key economies build an environment conducive to translating science, technology and knowledge into innovation in order to create economic and social value added.
The Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) Division of the STI Directorate is responsible for comparative analyses of the microeconomic drivers of economic growth, productivity, employment, business dynamism and innovation, as well as the ways in which these are affected by globalisation, the digital and green transformations, and structural change. The Division maintains a set of key databases and data infrastructure to carry out this work, including the Microdata Lab (containing detailed intellectual property records linked with firms), the STAN, ICIO, and Ti
VA databases, and leads several distributed microdata projects, including Multi
Prod, Dyn
Emp, and AI Diffuse. The Division also contributes – jointly with the Economics Department – to the activities of the Global Forum on Productivity (G