Dr. Sudipa Sarkar

Education

PhD, Department of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca, Spain
M.A. in Economics, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
B.A. in Economics (Honours), Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

Profile

Before joining NLSIU, Sudipa worked initially as a Research Fellow and later as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick from 2017 to 2022. During her time at Warwick, she worked on a number of research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK, European Commission, and United Nations University (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki. She has also supervised MSc and PhD dissertations, and tutored UG Economics students in Warwick. Sudipa remains associated with Warwick as an Honorary Associate Professor.

She is a recipient of the Marie Curie PhD Fellowship from the European Commission and the Prof MJ Manohar Rao Award for the year 2019 from the Indian Econometric Society (TIES).

Research

Sudipa’s research interests are in the broad areas of Labour and Development Economics. In particular, her research focuses on future of work and social inequality. Her research has been published in several peer reviewed international journals including Research Policy and World Development.

She has also been a visiting researcher at European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), Dublin. She has experience working in several other research organisations and projects such as Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Institute of Rural Management Anand, and Young Lives Project (led by Oxford University).

In a personal capacity, Sudipa served as a member of the Oxfam Great Britain’s Policy Advisory Group from 2018 to 2021.

Publications

Journal articles:

• Local Crime and Child Marriage: Evidence from India, published in Journal of Development Studies , 60(5), 763–787, March, 2024
• Who Eats Last? Intra-Household Gender Inequality in Food Allocation Among Children (with Dipanwita Ghatak, Soham Sahoo, and Varun Sharma) – published in Population Studies, 78(1), 63–77, November, 2023.
• “Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders“ (with Wil Hunt and Chris Warhurst) – published in Research Policy Volume 51, Issue 2, March 2022, 104425
• “Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis” (with Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen) published in World Development, Volume 115, March 2019, Pages 291-309
• Discussion: Ideas for India blogpost, The print
• “Employment Change in Occupations in Urban India: Implications for Wage Inequality “, published in Development and Change, 50(5): 1398–1429, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12461
• “Educational mismatch in Europe at the turn of the century: Measurement, intensity and evolution” (with Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Raquel Sebastián and José-Ignacio Antón), International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 39 No. 8, pp. 977-995, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2018-0327
• “Employment Polarization and Over-education in Germany, Spain, Sweden and UK”, Empirica (2017), doi:10.1007/s10663-017-9372-8
• “Does Teaching Quality Matter? Students Learning Outcome Related to Teaching Quality in Public and Private Primary Schools in India” (with Renu Singh), International Journal of Educational Development, 41 (2015) 153-163
• “Children’s Experience of Multidimensional Deprivation: Relationship with Household Monetary Poverty” (with Renu Singh), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 56 (2015) 43-56
• “Wages and Informal Labour Markets in India: Whither premiums on human capital investments?” (with Jeemol Unni), Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2013
• “Changing Occupation, Changing Skills: Graduate Labour Market in India” (with Jeemol Unni), Vikalpa, Vol. 37, No. 3, April-September, 2012

Articles in Working Paper Series:

• “Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis” (with Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen), IZA Discussion Paper No. 11086, October, 2017
• “Learning Environments in Andhra Pradesh, India: Children’s Academic Self-Concept and Mathematics Achievement” (with Renu Singh), Young Lives Working Paper 137, Young Lives, UK, March, 2015
• “Education and Employment: An Exploration of the Demand Side Story” (with Jeemol Unni), Institute for Employment Research Working Paper, University of Warwick, UK, December, 2011

Book Chapter:

“Employment and Education. An Exploration of the Demand Side Story” (with Jeemol Unni) in Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds), Navigating the Labyrinth. Perspectives on India’s Higher Education. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, pp. 157-184

Popular Media:

• Will digitalisation of work worsen caste inequalities in India? in Digit (digit-research.org) (with Richard Dickens and Wiliam Hunt), Digital Futures at Work Research Centre blog, 22nd April, 2024

Her Google Scholar profile is available here