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Indraneel Dasgupta

Indian Statistical Institute, India, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Professor, Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute

Research interest

Microeconomic theory, development economics, and public economics

Website

http://www.isical.ac.in/~indraneel/index.html

Past positions

Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India, 2010–2012; Professor, Durham University, UK, 2009–2010; Associate Professor and Reader, University of Nottingham, UK, 2006–2008

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of California, Riverside, 1997

Selected publications

  • “Linguistic assimilation and ethno-religious conflict.” In: Buchholtz, W., and D. Ruebbelke (eds). The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes. Berlin: Springer, 2017; pp. 219–242.

  • "Why pay NGOs to involve the community?” Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 86:1 (2015): 7–31 (with R. Burger and T. Owens).

  • “A model of nongovernmental organization regulation with an application to Uganda.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 64:1 (2015): 71–111 (with R. Burger and T. Owens).

  • “'Arranged' marriage, co-residence and female schooling: A model with evidence from India.” In: Mukhopadhyay, H., K. Ghosh Dastidar, and U. Sinha (eds). Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy: Essays for Anjan Mukherji. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011; pp. 337–367 (with P. Maitra and D. Mukherjee).

  • “Contraction consistent stochastic choice correspondence.” Social Choice and Welfare 37:4 (2011): 643–658.

article(s)

  • The labor market in India since the 1990s

    Productivity growth and low unemployment have not been matched by comparable rises in wages

    Indraneel DasguptaSaibal Kar, March 2018
    The Indian economy entered an ongoing process of trade liberalization, domestic deregulation, and privatization of public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate has remained low. However, labor force participation rates have fallen sharply, especially for women. In addition, youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, an overwhelming proportion of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector, and there is little evidence of a sustained rise in wages for either unskilled rural or factory workers.
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