Economics · public policy · migration

Jonathan Portes

Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London and Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe.

I am an economist working on immigration and labour mobility, Brexit, labour markets, fiscal policy, social security and the use of evidence in public policy. Before joining King’s, I was Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, and previously served as Chief Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions and the Cabinet Office.

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Jonathan Portes

Research & academic papers

Selected recent work. For a fuller list, see Google Scholar or the IZA profile above.

The Impact of the Pandemic on Health-Related Inactivity and Benefit Claims

with Riika Savolainen and Dimitris Vallis · IZA Discussion Paper No. 18854

The Impact of Brexit on UK Immigration and Labour Supply: Evidence from Synthetic Differences in Differences

with John Springford · IZA Discussion Paper No. 18478

Control Without Credibility: Immigration to the UK Since the Brexit Referendum

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18419

The Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment in the UK Using Longitudinal Administrative Data

with Sara Lemos · IZA Discussion Paper No. 18199

Unintended Consequences? The Changing Composition of Immigration to the United Kingdom after Brexit

National Institute Economic Review · Cambridge University Press

Press & commentary

Recent articles and policy commentary, listed separately from academic and research papers.

Burnham must learn from Starmer’s mistakes: Labour was elected to transform the economy, not just stabilise it

The paradox of selectivity

UK in a Changing Europe

Control without credibility – the post-Brexit migration paradox

LSE Business Review

Brexit ten years on: the economy

UK in a Changing Europe

Whoever is in charge, Labour needs a new immigration strategy

About

Jonathan Portes is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London. His research focuses particularly on migration and labour mobility, the economic effects of Brexit and the UK labour market.

Immigration Labour markets Brexit Fiscal policy Social security Public policy

He began his career at HM Treasury, was Chief Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2002–08 and at the Cabinet Office from 2008–11, and was Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research from 2011–15.

jonathan.portes@kcl.ac.uk