Rui Costa

Dr Rui Costa is a Research Fellow for the Labour and Crime Programmes at the Centre for Economic Performance and Guest Lecturer at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics. He received his PhD in Economics at the University College London in 2018. He is also a Research Fellow at Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW).

Current areas of research include:

• Labour Economics: Wages, Human Capital and Inequality; Technological Change, Trade and Labour Markets; Minimum Wages and Worker and Firm Adjustment.
• Economics of Crime: Youth Crime, Education and Justice; Domestic Violence; Organised Crime and Criminal Networks.

Current areas of research include:

• Labour Economics: Wages, Human Capital and Inequality; Technological Change, Trade and Labour Markets; Minimum Wages and Worker and Firm Adjustment.
• Economics of Crime: Youth Crime, Education and Justice; Domestic Violence; Organised Crime and Criminal Networks.

Recent reports and papers include:

• Minimum wage effects: adjustment through labour market dynamics and alternative work arrangements
  Pinjas Albagli, Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
  This report investigates the UK's 2016 National Living Wage (NLW) introduction, focusing on firm adjustment through labour market transitions and job contract amendments... Read more
  February 2025
• Old Skills, New Skills - what is changing in the UK labour market?
  Rui Costa, Christopher A. Pissarides and Bertha Rohenkohl
  The UK, along with other industrial countries, is experiencing rapid technological change associated with robotics and artificial intelligence, precipitating significant transformations in terms of how work is organised,... Read more
  February 2024
• Learning to grow: how to situate a skills strategy in an economic strategy
  Rui Costa, Sandra McNally, Louise Murphy, Christopher A. Pissarides, Bertha Rohenkohl, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura
  Investing in human capital is a crucial aspect of building an economy that is both more productive and fairer, and any growth strategy must incorporate an agenda for increasing human capital and workforce skills within...Read more
  October 2023