C U R R I C U L U M V I T Æ
Date: March 2008.
Name: Dipak Mazumdar
Nationality: Canadian
Address:
Office:
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
1, Devonshire Place,
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Canada.
Tel: 416—946-8900
Home: The Kent House
368 Sumach Street
Toronto, Ontario M4X 1V4
Canada
Tel: 416 921 5232
FAX: 416 921 4836
E-mail: d_mazumdar@hotmail.com
Education:
B.A., Presidency College, Calcutta, India (1950)
B.A., Tripos in Economics, Jesus College, Cambridge University, England (1952)
Ph.D., Cambridge University, England, (1958); Thesis: “Factors in Wage Disparities between Agriculture and Industry in a Developing Country.”
Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Massachussets Institute for Technology, (1960-1961).
Appointments:
1995- present: Research Associate and Senior Fellow: Department of Economics; Center for International Studies; and Center for South Asian Studies, University Of Toronto, Canada.
1992-1994: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA: Office of the Chief Economist for Africa, Labour Specialist
1987-1992: The World Bank, Economic Development Institute, Senior Research Economist.
1972-1985: The World Bank, Department of Development Economics Department, Department of Development Research, Senior Economist.
1965-1972: London School of Economics, University of London, England: Lecturer, tenured from 1966.
1960-1965: University College, University of London, England: Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer.
Visiting Appointments:
1999 Ministry of Labor and Human Welfare, Government of Thailand, Adviser
appointed by the International Labor Organization, Bangkok Regional Office.
1992: International Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland: Visiting Economist and Chief Technical Officer.
1985-1987: University of Toronto, Visiting Professor.
1976-77: London School of Economics, University of London, England. Visiting Lecturer (on leave from the World Bank).
1970: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda: Visiting Professor.
1968: Université de Luxembourg, Luxembourg: Visiting Professor.
Publications:
Books:
1. The Urban Labor Market and Income Distribution: a Case Study of Malaysia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981) A World Bank Research Publication.
2. With Constantino Lluch, Wages and Employment in Indonesia (Washington DC: World Bank, 1985) A World Bank Country Study, revision of World Bank Report no. 3586-IND.
3. With Ian Little and John Page, Small Manufacturing Enterprises: a Comparative Study of India and other Economies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) A World Bank Research Publication.
4. Micro-Economic Issues in the Analysis of Labor Markets in Developing Countries (Washington DC: The World Bank, 1987) Economic Development Institute Seminar Paper no. 40.
5. Labor Markets in an Era of Structural Adjustment 2 v., co-authors: Susan Horton and Ravi Kanbur (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994). v.1 Theory. v.2 Case Studies. In series: Economic Development Institute, Development Studies.
6. Wages and Employment in Africa with Ata Mazaheri (Ashgate, Aldershot,UK and Burlington, USA, 2002) A book in five parts
Introduction
Wage and Employment Trends in the Formal Sector
The Rural-Urban Wage Gap in Africa
Impact of Wage Decline
The Structure of the Labor Force and Wage Differentials in Manufacturing.
7. The African Manufacturing Firm (with Ata Mazaheri) Routledge, London and New York. 2003. xx pp 451.
8. Globalization, Labor Markets and Inequality in India (with Sandip Sarkar) Routledge. London and New York) 2008 xx pp. 356.
Journal Articles:
Numerous articles in professional refereed journals, and World Bank Working Papers. A full list available in extended c.v. on request. The list includes:
“Size of farm and productivity: a problem of Indian peasant agriculture,” Economica (1965) 32:161-173.
“The theory of share-cropping with labor market dualism,” Economica (1975) 42:261-271.
“Segmented labor markets in LDCs,” American Economic Review (1983) 73:254-259. Reprinted in World Bank Reprint Series, No. 267.
“The rural-urban wage-gap, migration and the working of the urban labor market: an interpretation based on a study of the workers of Bombay City,” Indian Economic Review (1984) 2:169-198. Reprinted in World Bank Reprint Series, No. 300.
Microeconomic Issues of Labour Markets in Developing Countries: Analysis and Policy Implications An EDI Seminar Paper No 40 (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1989)
“Import-substituting, industrialization and protection of the small-scale,” World Development (1991) 9:1197-1213. Reprinted in World Bank Reprint Series, No. 467.
“Labor markets and adjustment in open Asian Economies: the Republic of Korea and Malaysia,” World Bank Economic Review (1993) 7:149-380.
The Impact of the Recent Crisis on Labor Markets in South East Asia. Guest editor and contributor to special issue of the Indian Journal of Labor Economics, Institute Of Human Development, New Delhi. (December 2000).
“A Decomposition of the Real Wage Rate for South Africa 1970-2000,” (With Dirk van Seventer). South African Journal of Economics (2002) 70, 6, 1076-1102
“Trends in Employment and the Employment Elasticity in Manufacturing 1971-92: An International Comparison”. Cambridge Journal of Economics (2003) 27, 4, 563-582
Chapters in Published Books
1. “Analysis of the dual labor market in LDCs,” in Subbiah Kannappan, ed., Studies of Urban Labor Market Behavior in Developing Areas (Geneva: International Institute of Labor Studies, 1977).
2. “Government intervention and urban labour markets in LDCs,” in Maurice Scott and Deepak Lal, eds, Public Policy and Economic Development: essays in Honour of Ian Little (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) 345-360.
3. “Urban poverty and labor markets,” in Ernesto M. Pernia, ed., Urban Poverty in Asia: a Survey of Critical Issues (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1994) 81-125.
4. “Globalization, Adjustment, Inequality and Poverty” (with Albert Berry and Susan Horton) Human Development Papers 1997: Poverty and Human Development, UNDP, New York 1997.
5. With Susan Horton. “Vulnerable Groups and the Labor Markets; the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis” in East Asian Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis, edited by Gordon Betcherman and Rizwanul Islam, World Bank and the International Labor Office, Washington DC, 2001.
6. “Small and Medium Enterprise Development in Equitable Growth and Poverty Alleviation” in Reducing Poverty in Asia: Emerging Issues in Growth, Targeting and Measurement, edited by Christopher M. Edmomds, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK and Northampton, MA, USA (a joint publication with the Asian Development Bank) 2003
7. “Employment Elasticity in the Organized Manufacturing Sector in India|: Theory and Evidence” in Labor and Development edited by Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svener, Routledge, 2009.
Literary Publications:
Current Projects:
1. An update of the material of Globalization. Labor Markets and Inequality in India (Taking into account the new data sets available over the last few years of the current decade).
2. The East Asian Model of Growth with Equity: End of a Paradigm?
Outline of the Taiwan-Korea case of growth with equity and why the recent experience of Asian growth deviates from this paradigm. Based on a detailed case study of the late industrialization of Thailand,(with original analysis of primary survey data) and shorter discussion of other Asian growth economies, including India and China
3. Employment Growth in Manufacturing in South Asia and the Problem of the Missing Middle. A new project to be launched in 2008 in India and Bangladesh funded by the International Research Center (IDRC), Ottawa