Saibal Kar

Fellow in Economics

Ph.D. (Northern Illinois University, USA)

Research Interests:   

Labour Economics, Applied Microeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics, Public Economics

Courses Taught:

Development Economics, Labour Economics, International Trade and Development

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SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS/CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES:

• Migration and Development – The Role of Migrant Remittances, forthcoming, Studies on Trade and Poverty Reduction for the Asia-Pacific Region, Cambridge University Press and University of Adelaide, 2009.

• Labor Productivity Growth, Informal Wage and Capital Mobility - A General Equilibrium Analysis (with Sugata Marjit), forthcoming, Rabi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (Eds.) Labor Markets and Economic Development, NY: Routledge, 2009.  Also at: International Policy Centre, University of Michigan Working Paper # 54, 2007. 

• Labor Market Reform and Poverty-The Role of Informal Sector (with S.Marjit and D.Maity) in  Issues in Development ( Eds.) Bhaskar Datta, NY:World Scientific Press, 2008.

• Productivity and Wage in the Informal Sector (with Sugata Marjit), in Footprints of Development and Change: Ch 5 (Papers in Honor of V K R V Rao), New Delhi: AF, 2008.

• The Corporate Debt Market – A Firm-Level Panel Study for India (with B. Guha-Khasnobis), Financial Sector Development for Growth and Poverty Reduction (Eds.) Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and George Mavrotas, New York: Palgrave, 2008.

• Entrepreneurial Culture, Occupational Choice and Tax Policy (with V. Mukherjee), in Development Challenges: Some Contemporary Issues (Eds.) Joyashree Roy and Ajitava Roy Chaudhuri, New Delhi: Allied Publishers 2006.  Also available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084398

• Trade, Wages and Labour Mobility. (with Sugata Marjit), in Aditya Bhattacharjea and Sugata Marjit (eds.) Globalization and the Developing Economies, Manohar Books, New Delhi, India, 2004. (pdf file)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• International Labor Migration, Asymmetric Information and Occupational Choice, forthcoming, Trade and Development Review, 2009.

•  A Contemporary Perspective on Informal Labour Market – Theory, Policy and the Indian Experience, (with S. Marjit), forthcoming, Economic and Political Weekly, 2009.

• Urban Informal Sector and Poverty (with Sugata Marjit), forthcoming, International Review of Economics and Finance, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.iref.2008.06.009    

·     Risk Sharing in the Labor Market – Evidence from Indian Industries (with Poonam Mehra), Indian Economic Journal, 55, 2, 141-156.

• The Labour Market in India - A Survey of Some Contemporary Issues, India Macroeconomics Annual, 2007, 13-35.

• Protectionary Bias in Agriculture – A Pure Economic Argument (with Sugata Marjit and Hamid Beladi)Ecological Economics (2007), 63, (1) 160-164.                                                             http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.10.012

• Trade Reform and Informal Wage (with S. Marjit and H. Beladi), Review of Development Economics, 11, 2, 313-320, (May, 2007).

• Agricultural Prospects and Informal Wage in General Equilibrium (with S. Marjit and R. Acharyya), Economic Modelling (2007), 24 (3), 380-385.                                                                          http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2006.09.001

• Foreign Capital, Skill Formation and Migration of Skilled Workers (with B. Guha-Khasnobis), Journal of Policy Reform, 9 (2), June (2006), 107-123.                                                           
  http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=j91562507qh65h36    

• Economic Reform, Skill Formation and Foreign Capital (with Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis), (2006), The World Economy, 29, 1, 79-94. (pdf file).                                                                            http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=875106  

• Regional Trade Openness Index and Income Disparity – A New Methodology and the Indian Experiment (with S. Marjit and D. Maiti), Economic and Political Weekly (March 4, 2007).

• Emigration and Wage Inequality, (with Sugata Marjit), Economics Letters, (2005), vol. 88, 1, 141-145.    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2005.02.003  

• Skill Formation and Trade Reform – Welfare Perspective of Developing Countries. (with Hamid Beladi) Japan and the World Economy, 16, 1 (2004), 35-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japwor.2002.10.001 

•  Capital Mobility and Informal Wage in a Small Economy--Two Examples (with S. Marjit and P. Sarkar) South Asia Economic Journal, (2005), 5, no 2, 261-266. (pdf file)

• Pro-Market Reform and Informal Wage –Theory and Contemporary Indian Perspective (with Sugata Marjit), India Macroeconomics Annual, (2004-05), 2, 130-156. (pdf file)
   

• Informal Sector in General Equilibrium: Welfare Effects of Trade Policy Reforms. (with Sugata Marjit)International Review of Economics and Finance, 10 (2001), 289-300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1059-0560(01)00088-0
   

• Gradual Trade Reform and the Current Account - The Role of Intermediate Goods. (with Sugata Marjit), Keio Economic Studies, XXXVII (1), (2000), 63-69.
   

• Financial Volatility and Convertibility- Some Methodological Issues. (with Sugata Marjit), Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIII (8), (1998), 401-406.
   

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES:

• Migration Taxes and Human Capital Formation: Some Implications for Development, WIDER Research Paper # 2007/44. (2007). http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2007/rp2007-44.pdf

• The Corporate Debt Market – A Firm-Level Panel Study for India (with B. Guha-Khasnobis), (2006) UNU-WIDER Research Paper 2006/50. (pdf file) 

• Entrepreneurial Culture, Occupational Choice and Tax Policy (with V. Mukherjee), DSA Centre for Regional Economic Studies Working Paper # 05, (2005), Jadavpur University, India.

• Trade Liberalization, Migration and Poverty’. (with R. Acharyya). Available at: http://www.gdnet.org/pdf2/gdn_library/global_research_projects/macro_low_income/Acharyya.pdf

• The Urban Informal Sector and Poverty: Effects of Trade Reform and Capital Mobility in India, PEP-MPIA working Paper # 2007-09. (with Sugata Marjit). Available at:    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=968655