Update of the Swiss Job Market Monitor dataset: Now with detailed skill and task extractions
We are excited to announce that the Swiss Job Market Monitor dataset has been updated to include the period from 1950 to 2024. The dataset offers invaluable insights into Switzerland’s job market trends over the past seven decades, making it a rich source for researchers and policymakers.
In addition to extending the time coverage, the update also comprises newly developed NLP-based models that extract fine-grained information from job ad texts. These extractions are processed for further analysis and linked to international labour market ontologies such as ESCO and O*NET, providing a unique basis for studying the evolution of skills and tasks over time.
The data set is open access for scientific research on SWISSUbase and Zenodo.
Announcing the ISI Pipeline Program
The Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI) has announced the ISI Pipeline Program, a one-year international mentoring program to support early-career scholars — during their PhD, postdoc, or tenure-track phase — to complete a project on socioeconomic and, in particular, wealth inequality. The program pairs each early-career scholar with a senior mentor in their field from a different country for monthly virtual meetings and a short research stay at the mentor’s institution. All junior and senior scholars meet in person for a joint workshop in Munich.
We invite scholars from around the globe to apply with a clearly defined project and a desire to engage in international exchange. Suggestions for specific mentors are welcome but not required. Applications for the 2026 cohort are now open and encouraged until September 15, 2025. The program starts on January 1, 2026, and the final workshop will take place October 7–9, 2026 in Munich.
Application deadline: 15 September 2025
Further information can be found here
Call for Papers: Effects of Spatial mobility on Subjective Well-being, Special Issue in Social Indicators Research
Organisers: Nicolai Netz (DZWH) and Nico Stawarz (BiB)
Spatial mobility is an integral part of individual lives. Therefore, previous research has explored the manifold consequences of spatial mobility for individual life courses. In doing so, it has focussed on outcomes such as the occupational position and wages. However, as human behaviour usually aims to improve quality of life in a broader sense, we advocate a stronger focus on subjective well-being in research on spatial mobility. Accordingly, the special issue aims to provide an overview of the current state of research on how spatial mobility influences subjective well-being. It showcases new theoretical avenues, methodological designs, and empirical analyses of the effects of spatial mobility on subjective well-being. Focussing on different forms of spatial mobility (e.g., internal and international migration, commuting, and virtual mobility).
Submission deadline: 1 October 2025
For more information, see: https://link.springer.com/collections/cgciggfggj
NEPS-Call for Modules 2024 – AI-based systems in educational contexts: Use, knowledge, trust
Proposals for the collection of (educationally relevant) motives for use and knowledge about AI systems can be submitted as part of the thematic ‘NEPS Call for Modules 2024’. In addition, the questions can also relate to trust in AI systems in educational contexts.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 October 2025 – More information