Professor Javier Ortega

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Javier Ortega
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About

I received my PhD in Economics from DELTA (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) in 1996. Among other positions, I have been Associate Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (1998-2008) and then Senior Lecturer at City, University of London --and Head of the Economics Department in the period 2013-2017.

I joined Kingston Universityas Professor of Economics in January 2019, and was appointed Associate Dean for Research of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences in January 2020. From October 2021 till May 2023, I served as Interim Dean of the Faculty.

I have taught a variety of courses including Labour Economics, Macro, Public Economics, Economics of the European Integration, and Economics of Identity, Culture and Language.

My main areas of research interest are Labour Economics and Political Economy. Currently, I am working on papers on the use of the English language in India, on political correctness, and on colonisation and Nation-building.

I am currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics.

For my detailed CV and links to my working papers, see my personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/javierortega

Academic responsibilities

Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences & Professor of Economics

Qualifications

  • Doctorat d'Economie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 1996
  • MSc Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain (1992)
  • BSc Economics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1991)

Teaching and learning

  • 重口味SM, 2019: Macroeconomics (UG), Becoming an economist (UG), Contemporary Issues in Economics (UG), Political Economy (PGT), Macroeconomics (PGT).
  • City University, 2008-17: Public Economics (UG), Economics of European Integration (UG), Welfare Economics (PGT).
  • London School of Economics, 2010-13: Macroeconomics (UG).
  • Université de Toulouse, 1998-2008: Macroeconomics (UG), Labour Economics (UG), Public Economics (UG), Labour Economics (PGR), Economics of Language, Nationalism and Identity (PGR)
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 1997-98: Applied Economics (UG), Labour Economics (UG) 

Research

Hauk, E. and J. Ortega (2022) "Political Correctness and Elite Prestige". Barcelona School of Economics Working Papers 1375. December 2022.

Ortega, J. (2000) "Pareto-Improving Immigration in an Economy with Equilibrium Unemployment", Economic Journal 110 (460), 92-112 

See links to my working papers at https://sites.google.com/view/javierortega

Publications

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Article

and Verdugo, Gregory (2022) Journal of Economic Geography, 22(2), p. 261. ISSN (print) 1468-2702

and Verdugo, Gregory (2022) Journal of Economic Geography, 22(2), pp. 221-260. ISSN (print) 1468-2702

Hauk, Esther and (2021) Journal of Theoretical Politics, 33(1), pp. 56-94. ISSN (print) 0951-6298

and Verdugo, Gregory (2015) Journal of Population Economics, 28(3), pp. 785-815. ISSN (print) 0933-1433

and Verdugo, Gregory (2014) Labour Economics, 29, pp. 14-27. ISSN (print) 0927-5371

and Rioux, Laurence (2010) Labour Economics, 17(2), pp. 368-382. ISSN (print) 0927-5371

and Tangeraas, Thomas P. (2008) Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(5), 1078 - 1108. ISSN (print) 1542-4766

(2007) Cuadernos Economicos de ICE, 1(74), 101 - 127. ISSN (print) 0210-2633

and Rioux, Laurence (2002) Revue Economique, 53(6), pp. 1273-1303. ISSN (print) 0035-2764

Conference or Workshop Item

and Hauk, Ester (2019) In: 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business and Social Sciences in a period of uncertainty; 03 - 04 Jun 2019, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

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Leadership and management

Interim Dean, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences (October 2021-May 2023)

Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences (from January 2020)

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