Jonas Hjort is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) where he is the MSc Economics Programme Director since 2023, and at the University of Oslo (part-time). He is also Lead Academic for the Abdul Latif Jameel Povert Action Lab (J-PAL) Jobs and Entrepreneurship in Africa portfolio and JPAL Affiliate. He is a Fellow of the  European Economic Association, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at the International Growth Centre (IGC), a Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a Distinguished Affiliate of the CESifo Network. Among his editorial duties, he is the Co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association.

He conducts research on firms, organizations, and workers—production, broadly construed—in developing countries. Regularly published in the top-tier economic journals and his work internationally recognised, he is currently the principal investigator of the 5-year project Market Access and Economic Development (ACCESS) awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant in 2022.

Jonas Hjort's website

He will present a paper at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Footloose Enough? Multinationals, Domestic Firms, and Job Creation in Developing Economies as Wages Rise 

The next Applied Microeconomics Seminar will host Farzad SAIDI (U of Bonn) on November 13th.