Javier Ortega GREMAQ Center for Economic Performance Université des Sciences Sociales London School of Economics Manufacture des Tabacs Houghton Street Aile Jean-Jacques Laffont UK-London WC2A 2AE 21alléedeBrienne +442079557787 F-31000 Toulouse j.ortega@lse.ac.uk +33 5 61 12 85 59 javier.ortega@univ-tlse1.fr Employment Université de Toulouse, Associate Professor in Economics, September 1998- London School of Economics, Department of Economics, Visiting Researcher, September 2005-August 2006. London School of Economics, Temporary Lecturer in Economics, September 2002-August 2003. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Visiting Professor, September 1997-August 1998. Other Affiliations GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse, Researcher, September 1998- IDEI, Université de Toulouse, Associate Researcher, September 1999- Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), Researcher, September 2006- Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research Affiliate, February 2001- Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Research Fellow, January 2004- Education Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (DELTA), Doctorat d économie, 1996. Université Catholique de Louvain, Master in Economics, 1992. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Licenciatura de Economía, 1991. Fields of Interest Labour Economics, Search Theory, Political Economy, Economics of Language. 1
Academic Experience Université de Toulouse, Teaching, 1998- : Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Labour Economics (undergraduate), Public Economics (undergraduate), Labour Economics (graduate). London School of Economics, Teaching, 2002-2003: Macroeconomics (undergraduate). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Teaching, 1997-1998: Applied Economics (undergraduate), Labour Economics (undergraduate). Journal Publications Unilingual versus Bilingual Education: a Political Economy Analysis (with Thomas Tangerås). Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. 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. Working Papers and Unpublished Papers On the extent of re-entitlement effects in unemployment compensation (with Laurence Rioux), CEPR WP No. 8526, September 2006. Immigrant Assimilation in a Bilingual Country (with Gregory Verdugo), December 2005. Working Time Regulation, Firm Heterogeneity, and Efficiency. CEPR WP No. 3736, February 2003. Work in Progress The Determinants of Official Language Status (with Aleksandra Ivanova). Catalan language proþciency of the immigrants to Catalonia: a county level cross-section analysis Collective Volume Articles Pareto-Improving Immigration in an Economy with Equilibrium Unemployment, The Economics of Rising Inequalities, D.Cohen, G. Saint-Paul and T. Piketty (eds.). Oxford University Press, October 2002, pp. 147-168. 2
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. Submitted. Quelques aspects du débat international sur l indemnisation du chômage. [Some aspects of the international debate on unemployment compensation] Regards du CNESSS No. 18, July 2000, pp. 54-82. 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. Grants and Awards L Europe: un ou plusieurs marchés du travail?, ANR Jeunes Chercheurs. EC/TSER Project HPSE-CT01-00071 Dynamic aspects of the European unemployment problem, 2001-2004. Ministère de la Recherche (France), Programme Travail, 2001-2003. Post-doctoral fellowship, Wenner-Grenska Samfundet (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University). 1996-97. Doctoral scholarship, Banco de España (1992-1996). Seminars and Conferences 2007: CEP. 2006: Tilburg University (2), Brunel University, CREAM-TARGET Conference on Immigration, Universidad de Oviedo, ECORE Conference Challenges of Multilingual Societies. 2005: Universidad Carlos III, Université de Rennes. 2004: Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam), EEA (Madrid), Université du Québec à Montréal, CEPR ESSLE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 3
2003: LSE (2), CEPR Conference Dynamic Approach to Europe s Unemployment Problem (Berlin), European Central Bank-CEPR Conference What explains the pattern of labour supply in Europe, SED (Paris), IZA, CERC (Paris), Helsinki. 2002: Universitat de València, University of Toulouse (GREMAQ-IDEI), Universidad Pública de Navarra, CEPR Conference Dynamic Approach to Europe s Unemployment Problem (Paris), T2M (Paris), IUI (Stockholm) (2). 2001: Universidad de Navarra, Universität Mannheim, Universiteit van Amsterdam, THEMA (Cergy), T2M (Nice), SED (Stockholm), EEA (Lausanne), EALE (Jyväskylä), CEPR Conference (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 2000: GREMAQ-IDEI (Toulouse), Université de Perpignan, CREST, Universidad Complutense, MadMac (Madrid), EALE-SOLE (Milano) 1999: Université de Perpignan, LIHRE (Toulouse), Ente Luigi Einaudi 1998: Universitat de València, GREMAQ-IDEI (Toulouse), CEPR New Rising Inequalities 1997: IIES (Stockholm), Stockholms Universitet, FIEF (Stockholm), Universitat Pompeu Fabra 1996: T2M (Paris), IIES (Stockholm), Universidad Carlos III, Fourgeaud Seminar (Paris), EEA (Istanbul), ESEM (Istanbul) 1995: CORE, SEDC, LSE, EEA (Prague), CEPREMAP. 1994: EEA (Maastricht), DELTA. 1993: DELTA, MAD. Referee for American Economic Review, Annales d Economie et de Statistique, Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne d Economique, Economic Journal, Economica, Economie et Prévision, European Economic Review, Investigaciones Económicas, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Labour Economics, L actualité économique, Louvain Economic Review-Recherches Economiques de Louvain, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Revue Française d Economie, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Spanish Economic Review. Other Professional activities Member of the Recruitment Committee, Department of Economics, Université de Toulouse, 2000-2002, 2004- Member of the Conseil Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, 2002- Co-organiser of the Political Economy Seminar, GREMAQ-IDEI, 1999-2001. 4
Co-organiser of the Second Toulouse Seminar on Macroeconomics (October 2000). Co-organiser of the Conference Unemployment Compensation: International Experiences and Approaches for the French Employers Association (MEDEF) and Unions (CFDT, FO, CGC, CFTC, CGT). Paris, April 2000. Co-organiser of the First Toulouse Seminar on Macroeconomics (October 1999) Co-organiser of the Labour seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1997-1998) Newspaper Articles 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. Miscellaneous Birth date: July 1968. Spanish and French citizenships. One child. Languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Catalan. May 2007. 5