Professor Javier Ortega
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Economics
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences & Professor of Economics
- Email:
- j.ortega@kingston.ac.uk
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 University as 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, political correctness, colonisation, and Nation-building.
I am 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
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)
Domains
- Kingston University, 2024: EC6002 Advanced Economic Policy and Principles, BE6002 Economics of Organisations and Strategy.
- Kingston University, 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)
Courses taught
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
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)
Publications
Political correctness and elite prestige
Hauk, Esther and Ortega, Javier, 2025, Journal of Theoretical Politics
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations
Ortega Diego, Javier and Verdugo, Gregory, 2022, Journal of Economic Geography (22), 2, pp 261
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations
Ortega, Javier and Verdugo, Gregory, 2022, Journal of Economic Geography (22), 2, pp 221-260
Schooling, nation building and industrialization
Hauk, Esther and Ortega, Javier, 2021, Journal of Theoretical Politics (33), 1, pp 56-94
Assimilation in multilingual cities
Ortega, Javier and Verdugo, Gregory, 2015, Journal of Population Economics (28), 3, pp 785-815
The impact of immigration on the French labor market : why so different?
Ortega, Javier and Verdugo, Gregory, 2014, Labour Economics (29), pp 14-27
On the extent of re-entitlement effects in unemployment compensation
Ortega, Javier and Rioux, Laurence, 2010, Labour Economics (17), 2, pp 368-382
Unilingual versus bilingual education : a political economy analysis
Ortega, Javier and Tangeraas, Thomas P., 2008, Journal of the European Economic Association (6), 5, pp 1078 - 1108
Determinantes del nivel de Catalán de los inmigrantes en Cataluña : un análisis de sección cruzada a nivel comarcal [= Determinants of the level of Catalan immigrants in Catalonia : a cross-sectional analysis at the regional level]
Ortega, Javier, 2007, Cuadernos Economicos de ICE (1), 74, pp 101 - 127
Duree des contrats et indemnisation du chomage : une analyse quantitative du dualisme du marche du travail francais [= Duration of contracts and unemployment compensation : a quantitative analysis of the dualism of the French labor market]
Ortega, Javier and Rioux, Laurence, 2002, Revue Economique (53), 6, pp 1273-1303
Equilibrium political correctness
Ortega Diego, Javier 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.