简介

Nowadays I mainly study the connections between employment, education, inequality, globalization and changes in the structure of national economies. For example, I ask: How are the types of jobs available changing, and why? What does this mean for inequality, and social stratification? Are we increasingly likely to find ourselves competing for jobs with workers in other countries? What happens when education levels rise fast and the supply of skilled jobs does not? What happens to male employment as women overtake men educationally? How do changes in supplies of educated workers alter the types of economic activities a country is successful in? Earlier publications cover a diversity of topics, including energy sector restructuring, food subsidy programs, caste-discrimination, commodity crises, land rights and international scientific collaboration. I engage these questions empirically, taking distributional and institutional considerations seriously. Before joining UCSB, I served as an economist at the Asian Development Bank, where I analyzed electricity sector reforms in several Central Asian countries and the Philippines and covered global and Asian macroeconomic developments.