Hipólito Simón Pérez has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Alicante since 2018. He holds three six-year research periods (2001–2007, 2008–2013, and 2014–2020) and currently has an h-index of 12 according to Web of Science, 13 with Scopus, and 26 according to Google Scholar (i10-index = 54). His scientific output includes the publication of 38 articles in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports, 17 of which are in the first quartile of JCR or SJR-Scopus. He has published in Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Regional Science, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Tourism Management, Social Indicators Research, and the European Journal of Population, among others. He is co-Principal Investigator of the research project PID2020-114896RB-I00, "Local Labour Markets and Commuting: New Challenges", together with José Manuel Casado Díaz, Director of the International Economics Institute, with whom he has collaborated on numerous projects and publications.

His main field of research is labor economics, in which he served as President of the Spanish Association of Labor Economics from 2015 to 2017. He has received two research awards (the 2nd and 4th editions of the Lluis Fina Award for excellence in labor economics research), participated in three European projects (including two funded under the EU’s Fifth and Seventh Framework Programmes), and been involved in various research contracts (serving as Principal Investigator in four of them, with institutions such as the London School of Economics and the Institute for Fiscal Studies).

His research in this field is broad, with particular focus on territorial disparities in labor markets, gender analysis, tourism, and, more recently, job insecurity from both aggregate and local perspectives. In this latter area, he has authored several scientific publications. He has been Principal Investigator of a research project on women's job insecurity in Spain funded by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and, in terms of knowledge transfer, has led a collaborative agreement with CCOO to analyze job insecurity in Spain. Currently, he is co-Principal Investigator, alongside José Manuel Casado, of an agreement with the Generalitat Valenciana to promote public policy evaluation, which in 2024 focuses on the study of multidimensional job insecurity at the local level in the Autonomous Community of Valencia.

A major line of his research addresses the territorial dimensions of labor market functioning and regional economics. In this field, he has been Principal Investigator on two State R&D Plan projects (and participated as a member in four others) and is a member of the University of Alicante’s research group Territorio y movilidad: mercados de trabajo y vivienda. From 2014 to 2018, he was a member of the editorial board of Investigaciones Regionales / Journal of Regional Research. His research in this area includes the analysis of regional wage disparities, the role of collective bargaining in these disparities, and regional differences in the gender wage gap. In the area of forced mobility, his work has examined, among other topics, the impact of commuting on worker satisfaction and commuting patterns of the self-employed versus employees.

His research priorities in labor economics also include gender analysis, with numerous publications on issues such as the gender wage gap. He has led a research project funded by the Institute for Fiscal Studies focused on multidimensional job insecurity among women in Spain. Another major research area is the tourism sector, where he has analyzed wages, determinants of job satisfaction, and the gender wage gap.

Hipólito has supervised several doctoral theses within the Doctorate in Economics at the University of Alicante. In all cases, these theses incorporate a territorial dimension in the analysis of living standards, wages, or daily residential–workplace mobility. He regularly participates in leading academic conferences, with 30 presentations at international events such as EALE, ESPE, ERSA, and IATE, as well as Spanish-based international conferences like the Regional Studies Meeting, Applied Economics Meeting, Labor Economics Days, and Economic Analysis Symposium. He is also a reviewer for prestigious scientific journals, including Regional Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science, International Migration Review, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. Additionally, he has served on the scientific committee of several editions of the Applied Economics Meeting and Labor Economics Days, has been an associate researcher at the IEB in Barcelona, and has served on the board of the Free Association of Economics. Regional Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science, International Migration Review y British Journal of Industrial Relations. Además, ha formado parte del comité científico de varias ediciones del Encuentro de Economía Aplicada y las Jornadas de Economía Laboral, ha sido investigador asociado del IEB de Barcelona y miembro de la Junta de la Asociación Libre de Economía.