Sarbajit Chaudhuri- Ph.D.
- Professor (Full) at University of Calcutta
Sarbajit Chaudhuri
- Ph.D.
- Professor (Full) at University of Calcutta
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Introduction
Areas: Covid-19; Vaccines; Neoclassical Political Economy; Urbanization and Transport Problem
Present collaborators - Sushobhan Mahata; Rohan Kanti Khan; Soumyajit Mandal and Salonkara Chaudhuri
We use Game Theory; Simple General Equilibrium Techniques and Simulation analysis
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December 1997 - present
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- Professor (Full)
Description
- As Senior Lecturer from 30.12.1997 to 22.08.1998 As Reader (Associate Professor) from 23.08.1998 to 22.08.2006 As Professor (Full) from 23.08.2006 -------
April 1997 - December 1997
Mrinalini Mahavidyapith
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
June 1996 - March 1997
Goenka College of Commerce and B.A.
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Education
January 1992 - March 1995
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Publications (272)
The paper reexamines the conventional results relating to inflow of foreign capital, removal of protectionism and structural reform programmes, in a small open economy in terms of a two-sector general equilibrium model with an informal sector. The paper shows that in the presence of labour market distortion and a protectionist policy, inflow of for...
This paper argues that better prospect for exports induces firms to distinguish between high-quality workers and low-quality workers by providing an incentive wage. Thus, trade leads to an identification of labour quality, widening the wage gap between the high-quality (skilled) and the low-quality (unskilled) workers. The results are derived in a...
This paper argues that better prospect for exports induces firms to distinguish good workers from bad workers by providing an incentive wage. Thus, trade leads to skills identification, widening the wage gap between the skilled and the unskilled. The results are derived in a model containing both moral hazard and adverse selection problems. We prov...
This paper argues that better prospect for exports induces firms to distinguish high-quality workers from low-quality workers by providing an incentive wage. Thus, trade leads to an identification of labour quality, widening the wage gap between the high-quality (skilled) and the low-quality (unskilled) workers. The results are derived in a model c...
The paper develops a three-sector full-employment general equilibrium model for a small open developing economy with exogenous labour market imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services, the consumption of which generates positive externalities. Our main objective is to show that the optimal consumption subsidy to healthcare,...
A four-sector competitive general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour in presence of capital market distortion to analyse the effect of social transition on female labour force participation and gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that although gender wage inequality worsens in the existing structure,...
This paper examines the impact of a rise in oil prices on the wages of workers in the unorganized sector of a developing economy. The model economy comprises of two non-traded transport sectors, formal and informal, along with other sectors. The main results that we obtain are as follows. The non-formal transport sector contracts when fuel price ri...
COVID-19 has posed severe challenges not only to researchers in the field of medicines and natural sciences but also to policymakers. Almost all nations of the world lockdown have been chosen as an immediate response to this pandemic crisis. The labour market in developing economies continues to be gendered with gender-based wage differentials besi...
In this paper, we analyze some aspects of cronyism and corruption in India. We
develop a three-stage game-theoretic model where the ruling political party and a
capitalist interact with each other. The ruling party, in return of a donation from the
capitalist, sets a policy that favors the latter. Our model leads to some interesting
results of whic...
We develop a three-sector Harris-Todaro (HT)-type model for a developing economy to analyse the failure of the employment generation program in the rural sector as a policy response to counter Covid-19-induced reverse migration of labour. First, we distinguish between two alternative modes of implementation of the program and show how they produce...
COVID-19 has posed severe challenges not only to researchers in the field of medicines and natural sciences but also to policymakers. Almost all nations of the world lockdown have been chosen as an immediate response to this pandemic crisis. Given that the labour market in India continues to be gendered with gender-based wage differentials besides...
In this paper we analyze some aspects of cronyism and corruption in an emerging economy. We develop a three-stage game-theoretic model where the ruling political party and a capitalist interact with each other. The ruling party, in return of a donation from the capitalist, sets a policy that favours the latter. Our model leads to some interesting r...
We develop a 3 × 4 full-employment small open economy model for examining the consequences of anti-immigration policy against skilled labor adopted in the developed country on both national income and wage inequality in a source developing economy, keeping aside the aspect of immigration of unskilled labor. We find that both social welfare and wage...
We then resort to another model with agricultural dualism and child labour and provide a theoretical explanation why a poverty alleviation program like subsidization of backward agriculture may not ultimately succeed in alleviating the child labour incidence in a developing nation. We show that although the policy exerts a downward pressure on the...
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We develop a three-sector Harris-Todaro (HT) type model for identifying the factors that are responsible for failure of the employment generation program in rural sector with or without natural disaster. First, we distinguish between two alternative modes of implementation of the program and show how they produce diverse outcomes on both unemployme...
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Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice
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Volume 19(2) – December 2020
We develop a three-sector Harris-Todaro (HT) type model for identifying the factors that are responsible for failure of the employment generation program in rural sector with or without natural disaster. First, we distinguish between two alternative modes of implementation of the program and show how they produce diverse outcomes on both unemployme...
Empirical evidences suggest that use of child labour as domestic help has significantly increased in recent years although the overall incidence of child labour across the globe has satisfactorily declined. This should draw attention of the economists and policymakers because domestic child labour is considered as exploitative and in many cases haz...
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We develop a 3×4 full-employment competitive general equilibrium model for a small open developing economy that includes a vertically integrated non-traded health sector with a view to examine whether the welfare consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) and public expenditure on healthcare hinge on the destination of FDI and the type of publ...
Arthaniti - Journal of Economic Theory and Practice - Table of contents - 18(2) - December 2019 Issue (SAGE)
This paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model for a small open developing economy with a non-traded sector that uses only unskilled female labour to provide final services to the skilled families. For measuring the gender-based inequality, we concentrate solely on the unskilled labour market knowing fully well that there exists gende...
This paper is aimed at theoretically examining the consequence of the anti‐immigration policy adopted in the destination country on the skilled–unskilled wage inequality in a source nation using a couple of two‐sector, specific‐factor general equilibrium models in both the presence and absence of unemployment. Emigration requires incurring some cap...
This paper is devoted to theoretically examine the consequence of the anti-immigration policy adopted in the destination country on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in a source nation using a couple of two-sector, specific factor general equilibrium models in both the presence and absence of unemployment. Emigration requires incurring some cap...
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Arthaniti-Journal of Economic Theory and Practice
Vol 18, Issue 1, June 2019
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We examine the welfare consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and credit market reform in a small open developing economy using a 2×2 full-employment general equilibrium model with both labour market and capital market distortions. Apart from factor market imperfections, there is a tariff on the import-competing sector, which creates...
The paper deals with issues that focus on public policy related to immigration of skilled workforce from developing to developed countries in terms of a general equilibrium framework that explicitly models political considerations of the policy maker. The model starts with the traditional sector-specific Jones (1971) structure and then it introduce...
We examine the welfare consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and credit market reform in a small open developing economy using a 2 × 2 full-employment general equilibrium model with both labour market and capital market distortions. Apart from factor market imperfections, there is a tariff on the import-competing sector, which creat...
This paper develops a 3×4 full-employment small open economy model for examining the consequences of anti-immigration policy adopted in the host country on both national income and wage inequality in a source developing economy that is plagued with multiple distortions. The country exports a primary agricultural commodity while it imports one low-s...
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Introduction and Motivation
The production of a ‘dirty good’ generates pollution that creates harmful effects on the health of the population, thereby lowering the efficiency of the workforce. Because the negative externalities are not internalized, the production of such a commodity should be controlled by introducing a Pigouvian production tax in...
This paper is devoted to theoretically examine the consequence of the anti-immigration policy in the destination country on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the source nation using a couple of two-sector, specific factor general equilibrium models in both the presence and absence of unemployment. Emigration requires incurring some capital c...
We are re-launching the new version of Arthaniti, now renamed as Arthaniti– Journal of Economic Theory and Practice (AJETP), with a special issue on “India looking East”, where the term East is deployed from the vantage point of India. We guess that the reason for this special focus needs a brief explanation.
Since the demise of colonialism, two o...
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Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice (formerly Arthaniti) (a SAGE journal in Economics) Aims and Scope Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice (formerly Arthaniti), peer-reviewed and published bi-annually, has been a leading channel for economic research for more than sixty years. The journal aims to contribute to the devel...
This paper examines the welfare consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and credit market reform in a small open developing economy using a 2×2 general equilibrium model both in the presence and in absence of unemployment. Both the input markets, labour and capital, are distorted, as observed in the developing countries. Besides, ther...
This paper addresses the question of whether developing countries possess any built-in mechanism that can cope with external terms-of-trade (TOT) shocks. Using a two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with endogenous labor market distortion and tariff protected import-competing sector, it theoretically shows that such countries posse...
A damaging property of the two-sector, mobile capital Harris–Todaro model (known as the Corden–Findlay model) is that growth in capital (labor) endowment accentuates (mitigates) urban unemployment in a dual economy, limiting the model's applicability to the field of trade and development. To resolve this problem, we introduce the informal credit ma...
A damaging property of the two-sector, mobile capital Harris-Todaro model (known as the Corden and Findlay 1975 model) is that growth in capital (labor) endowment accentuates (mitigates) the urban unemployment problem in a dual economy. This property of the Corden and Findlay (1975) model limits its applicability to the field of trade and developme...
The present paper develops a two-sector, specific factor general equilibrium framework for analyzing endogenous skill formation in a dynamic setup and examining the consequence of a public subsidy policy on education on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in a small open economy. It shows that given the technologies of production the policy produ...
Preface Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally considered in development literature as instrumental for economic growth of countries, particularly the developing ones. It acts as a panacea for breaking out of the vicious circle of low savings-low income and facilitates import of capital goods and advanced technical knowhow. The worldwide...
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The rural nonfarm sector has been increasingly becoming a key determinant of the economic development of a developing economy. It is supposed that with process economic development of the nonfarm sector would expand and employ a greater proportion of the workforce previously engaged in the farm sector. We have built up a three-sector Harris–Todaro...
This paper argues that better prospect for exports induces firms to distinguish between high-quality workers and low-quality workers by providing an incentive wage. Thus, trade leads to an identification of labour quality, widening the wage gap between the high-quality (skilled) and the low-quality (unskilled) workers. The results are derived in a...
As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skills acquirement for improving relative wage inequality in the future. Empirical observations on some prominent small OECD countries, however, indicate that the relationship between wage inequality and public spending on education is not necessarily unambiguous. A...
Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental development. Child labour is a complex issue, and clearly it has...
Preface
The problem of child labour is considered a slur on the fair face of the globalized world both on humanitarian and economic grounds. On the one hand, working at a very early age, often under hazardous work conditions instead of schooling, deprives the children probably of the most beautiful phase of their life that significantly retards th...
A comprehensive study on the informal sector based on the simple general equilibrium models
The rural nonfarm sector (RNFS) has been increasing becoming a key determinant of the economic development of a developing economy. It is supposed that with process economic development the nonfarm would expand and employ a greater proportion of the workforce previously engaged in the farm sector. we have built up a three-sector Harris-Todaro type...
The impact of macroeconomic shocks, viz. rise in oil price on the wages of workers in unorganized sector is little discussed in the literature. This paper shows that moving from formal to informal facilities in the large transport sector in India is generally penalizing for the workers, albeit, higher educational qualification of the individual hel...
This theoretical paper shows that developing countries possess an inherent shock-absorbing mechanism that stems from their peculiar institutional characteristics and can lessen the gravity of detrimental welfare consequence of international terms-of-trade disturbances in terms of a static two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with e...
A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and tariff reform produce favourable effects on the wage inequa...
This paper explains the existence of intersectoral wage differential in a developing economy in terms of trade union behavior in the formal sector industry and analyzes its role in predicting the outcomes of trade and investment reforms on welfare. It provides theoretical explanations of certain real life phenomena e.g. why the developing countries...
Forthcoming book on child labour
This paper explains the existence of intersectoral wage differential in a developing economy in terms of trade union behavior in the formal sector industry and analyzes its role in predicting the outcomes of trade and investment reforms on welfare. It provides theoretical explanations of certain real life phenomena e.g. why the developing countries...
This note develops a model of two stage game between a corrupt trade union leader and the management of the firm where the former negotiates for the wage of the workers with the firm. The firm bribes the leader so that he keeps the wage as close as possible to the workers' reservation wage. The analysis leads to some interesting results which are i...
The paper purports to examine the rationale in subsidizing healthcare in the developing economies solely from the standpoint of economic growth with the help of a three-sector, full-employment small economy model with exogenous labour market imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services. Consumption of healthcare services emana...
The paper purports to examine the rationale in subsidizing healthcare in the developing economies solely from the standpoint of economic growth with the help of a three-sector, full-employment small economy model with exogenous labour market imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services. Consumption of healthcare services emana...
The paper purports to examine the rationale in subsidizing healthcare in the developing economies solely from the standpoint of economic growth with the help of a three-sector, full-employment small economy model with exogenous labour market imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services. Consumption of healthcare services emana...
The paper purports to examine the rationale in subsidizing healthcare in the developing economies solely from the standpoint of economic growth with the help of a three-sector, full-employment small economy model with exogenous labour market imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services. Consumption of healthcare services emana...
The paper purports to examine the rationale in subsidizing healthcare in the developing economies solely from the standpoint of economic growth with the help of a three-sector, full-employment small economy model with exogenous labour market imperfection and a non-traded sector providing healthcare services. Consumption of healthcare services emana...
This theoretical note examines the usefulness of the Pigouvian tax policy in dealing with negative production externalities and in improving social welfare in a small developing economy. A two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with exogenous labour market imperfection is used for the analytical purpose where the sector that faces an...
This paper shows that developing countries possess an inherent shock-absorbing mechanism that stems from their peculiar institutional characteristics and can lessen the gravity of detrimental welfare consequence of exogenous terms-of-trade disturbances in terms of a two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with endogenous labour market...
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Imitation of research ideas is a common crime in academics. A relatively less reputed researcher has always the possibility that his/her research ideas might be imitated. If he/she submits a very good paper to one of the most celebrated journals of his/her discipline, the paper might be desk-rejected without citing any reason. After a couple months later on one good morning, the researcher might find that almost a similar paper has been published in a journal of similar rank and the day becomes a very bad indeed!
What should be the right strategy for a researcher having a relatively small size of network for protecting imitation of his/her research ideas from people possessing much larger network? Should he/she go for forging into a tacit agreement with the author / co / associate editor(s) of the journal knowing fully well that it is also a academic crime?
Dear Economists,
Very recently one of my doctoral students and I have written a paper on the above-mentioned subject. The paper has been submitted to a webinar hosted by one of very reputed universities abroad for consideration. We have been working on another paper jointly with of the teachers of the J.N.U. We will remain thankful, if you all would kindly send us your invaluable comments on this line of thinking. If you are interested in this paper, we can send this privately. Once it is accepted for presentation in the webinar, I will upload the full-text on this platform.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Sarbajit Chaudhuri
(1) If acts of different people against one or two particular people in academics in a particular discipline within the same institution cannot, otherwise, be rationally explained, do they necessarily point towards the professional rivalry?
(2) What should those one or two hapless people do for carrying out research relatively peacefully, especially when things are getting worse day by day?
Some researchers often do not cite works of some other researchers whom they personally know very well. Is it necessarily because of professional reason? Is it not an act of academic dishonesty?
If one copies some portions from his own published works, would you call him a plagiarist?
An extremely unfortunate internal challenge that the young scholars face is the restriction at the entry point in many of the universities and research institutes. Despite having a commendable list of publications in highly internationally reputed journals, one often finds it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get absorbed in such a place only on merit although, in a society with rampant corruption and nepotism, it is not completely unexpected. Even if one clears the hurdle luckily, in many cases, scholars do not find the congenial environment to work peacefully due to stiff resistance from many of the other people simply because he/she wants not to resort to unproductive practices. A hapless researcher-cum-teacher often gets the impression that he/she is working in a corporate office, where one has to satisfy the boss and carry out his/her orders. He/she is often heavily scolded by the boss even publicly because of his/her effort to swim against the tide. However, of late the situation is changing for the better at least in India, thanks to the recent policies adopted by the national regulatory authority in academics. Although these policies do not talk about the quality of publications, the dedicated scholars having quality publications to their credit firmly believe this loophole in the rules would be taken care of in the near future and the other people would begin to understand that teaching is not their only duty to discharge at the university level.
“……….Good Scientific Research Can Be Conducted In Less Money Too.”
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