Contact Details: Department of Economics, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom. email: j.wahba@soton.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0) 23 593 996. (Twitter: @Jackiewahba)
Main research areas: international migration and labour markets.
Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Southampton (UK), and Director of Research in Economics. Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to Economic Policy. Previous member of the UK Migration Advisory Committee (2012-2021). Fellow and Trustee of the Academy of Social Sciences Council. Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. Was member of the ESRC Council (2022-2025), the Council of the Royal Economic Society (2020-2025) and the REF2021 Sub-Panel 16 (Economics & Econometrics).
Leader of the Migration Research at the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change (CPC), at the University of Southampton. Member of the Editorial Board of World Development. Previously, Managing Editor for IZA Journal of Labor & Development and IZA Journal of Development & Migration. Member of the Economic Research Forum Board of Trustees, and the Advisory Board of the Migration Observatory, at the University of Oxford.
Affiliations:
Research Fellow of RFBerlin (Rockwool Foundation Berlin)
Research Fellow of CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration).
Research Fellow of the ERF (Economic Research Forum).
Research Fellow of IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor).