Research interests

Research Interest: Sudipa is an Applied Economist. Her research interests are in the broad areas of Labour Economics and Development Economics.

Labour Economics: Future of work, Skills and education, Decent work, Women and work

Development Economics: Poverty and inequality, Child development, Gender and intersectionality

Academic profile

Sudipa is a Senior Research Fellow/Assistant Professor at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick. Previously, she has been a Marie Curie PhD Fellow associated with an Initial Training Network of European Commission, and has completed her PhD from the Department of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca, Spain. Her thesis, 'Essays in Labour Economics', deals with issues related to labour market and employment with a focus on over-education, job polarization and wage inequality, and women’s employment transition. She has been a visiting researcher at European Foundation of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin. Sudipa has previously worked in several research organisations including the Young Lives project (led by Oxford University), Institute of Rural Management Anand and Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Sudipa has also served as a member of the Oxfam GB’s Policy Advisory Group of UK Programme since 2018 to 2021, in her personal capacity.

Current projects

• The Effect of Local Crime on Child Marriage, School Dropout, and Employment Outcomes: A Gender Perspective from India. With Gaby Atfield, Funded by ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund. Project Start Date: 1/11/2019 - Project End Date: 30/04/2021 [details]

• The dynamics of women’s work: routes to economic and social empowerment, Funded by UNU-WIDER, Project Start Date: 20/12/2019 - Project End Date: 31/12/2020 [details]

• Identification of factors affecting successful outcomes in the DDU-GKY Indian skills programme for unemployed young people. Funded by ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund. Project Start Date: 3/10/2018 - Project End Date: 02/10/2020 [details]
• ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) NGO data fund (2018–2019)
• BEYOND 4.0 - Inclusive Futures for Europe BEYOND the impacts of Industry 4.0 and Digital Disruption. With Sally-Anne Barnes, Sally Wright and Chris Warhurst and Chris Mathieu (Lund University), led by Steven Dhondt (TNO). Funded by European Commission. Project Duration: 2019 - 2023 [details]
• Compilation of tasks data at the national level and support in the development and testing of a tasks questionnaire. With Sally Wright. Funded by the European Commission. Project Start Date: 01/12/2018 - Project End Date: 30/11/2019 [details]

All projects

Teaching and Supervision

• EC331: Research in Applied Economics,Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• Dissertation supervisor of 2 MSc students, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• PhD supervisor of Bhaskar Chakravorty (with Wiji Arulampalam) Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
• PhD supervisor of Rebeka Balogh (with Christophe VanrolenLink opens in a new window, Sylvie GadeyneLink opens in a new window and Chris WarhurstLink opens in a new window), University of Warwick and Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Published journal articles

"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 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104425Link opens in a new window

"Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India," (with Bhaskar Chakravorty and Clare Lyonette) GLO Discussion Paper Series 724, Global Labor Organization (GLO)

"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

"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

“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.

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