Dr Javier Ortega
Senior Lecturer in EconomicsResearch: Economics of Language, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Development Economics.
Teaching: Public Economics (UG), Economics of European Integration (UG), Welfare Economics (PG)
Social Sciences Building, D311
Tel.: 0207-040-8533
Fax: 0207-040-8580
javier.ortega.1@city.ac.uk
Office hours: Thursdays, 14:00-16:00
Administration: Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Higher Education
BA in Economics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1991.
MA in Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1992.
PhD in Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (DELTA), 1996.
“Assimilation in Bilingual Cities'' (with Gregory Verdugo), January 2008.
“Work-Sharing, Firm Heterogeneity, and Efficiency”. November 2007.
Journal Publications
“Unilingual versus Bilingual Education: A Political Economy Analysis” (with Thomas Tangerås). Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 6, Issue 5, September 2008 (In press) Technical appendix
“Pareto-Improving Immigration in an Economy with Equilibrium Unemployment” The Economic Journal, vol. 110, No. 460 (January 2000), pp. 92-112.
“Durée des contrats et indemnisation du chômage : une analyse quantitative du dualisme du marché du travail français'' (with Laurence Rioux) [Length of Contracts and Unemployment Compensation: a Quantitative Analysis of the Dualism of the French Labour Market], Revue Economique, vol. 53, No. 6, November 2002, pp. 1273-1303.
“Determinantes del nivel de catalán de los inmigrantes en Cataluña: Un análisis de sección cruzada a nivel comarcal" [Catalan language proficiency of the immigrants to Catalonia: a county level cross-section analysis''] Cuadernos Económicos de ICE (2007), 74, pp. 101-128.
Collective Volume Articles
“Pareto-Improving Immigration in an Economy with Equilibrium Unemployment'', in The Economics of Rising Inequalities, D.Cohen, G. Saint-Paul and T. Piketty (eds.). Oxford University Press, October 2002, pp. 147-168.
Books
Macroéconomie. Une approche pratique contemporaine (with Patrick Fève). Dunod (220 pages). September 2004.
Policy Reports
“Le marché du travail français dans (ou à travers) le miroir britannique et espagnol'' [The French labour market in (or through) the British and Spanish looking glass.] CERC Working Papers 2004-02, June 2004.
“Quelques aspects du débat international sur l'indemnisation du chômage''. [Some aspects of the international debate on unemployment compensation] Regards, No. 18, July 2000, pp. 54-82, CNESSS.
“Indemnisation du chômage : expériences et approches internationales” [Unemployment compensation : international approaches and experiences], (with Christian Gollier and Franck Portier), UNEDIC, July 2000.
Discussions in Conference Volumes
“Discussion on 'A matching model of non-employment and wage pressure' by Andrew Brigden and Jonathan Thomas”, Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe, Edgar Elgar, 2005.
Newspaper articles
“Immigration et création d’emplois” [Immigration and job creation], Les Echos, July 2007.
“Payons bien les chômeurs” [On the vertues of unemployment compensation], L'Expansion, December 2003.
“Qui a peur de l'immigration ?” [Who is Afraid of Immigration?], L'Expansion, September 2001.
“Perjudica la inmigración a los trabajadores autóctonos ?” (Does Immigration Hurt Native Workers?), El País, April 2000.
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