Josep Mestres is a senior economist in the Spanish Economy Department in CaixaBank Research. He has a PhD in Economics from University College London and a Master in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before joining CaixaBank he worked as an economist in the Employment and Social Policy Department (DELSA) of the OECD, in the divisions of International Migration and Employment and at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) in University College London. His areas of study include labour economics, immigration economics and public policy in general. He coordinates real-time analytics projects in CaixaBank Research.