Economics
Smrutirekha Singhari
Assistant Professor
smrutisinghari@gmail.com
Area of Interest
Course Taught
Membership
Research Publications
- Singhari S. & Madheswaran S. (2017), Wage Structure and Wage Differentials in formal and informal sectors in India: Evidence from NSS data, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.60, No. 3, pp.389-414, DOI: 10.1007/s41027-018-0110-y, ISSN 0971-7927, September. (Scopus)
- Madheswaran S., & Singhari S. (2016), “Social Exclusion and Caste Discrimination in Public and Private Sectors in India: A Decomposition Analysis”, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 59, Issue 2, pp. 175-201, DOI: 10.1007/s41027-017-0053-8, ISSN 0971-7927, March. (Scopus)
- Singhari S. and S. Madheswaran (2016), “The Changing Rates of Return to Education in India: Evidence from NSS Data”, Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. XCVII, No. 384, pp. 135-155, July , ISSN 0019-5170, July (Special Centennial Issue). (UGC approved list of Journals – No. 20761 )
- Singhari S. & Madheswaran S. (2016), “The Changing Rates of Return to Education in India: Evidence from NSS Data”, (2016), Working Paper Series of ISEC, No. 358, ISBN: 978-81-7791-214-2, Bangalore.
- Singhari S. & Madheswaran S. (2016), “Social Exclusion and Caste Discrimination in Public and Private Sectors in India: A Decomposition Analysis”, (2016), Working Paper Series of ISEC, No. 361, ISBN: 978-81-7791-217-3, Bangalore.
Research Guidance
Books/Chapters
Research Projects
Patents
Conference
- “The Changing Rates of Return to Education in India: A study of recent evidences” presented in the International Conference on Economic Modeling held in Bali, Indonesia on July 16th -17th , 2014
- “The Labour Market Segmentation in India: Evidence from NSS data” presented in the 56th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics , 18-20 December, 2014, DOI 10.1007/s41027-016-0023-6, (Springer).
- “Is there a Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor in India? Examining the Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution” presented in the International Conference on Economic Modeling held in Boston, MA, United States on July 15th -17th , 2015
- “Disparities in Outcome: Graduate Labour Market in India” presented in the 58th Annual conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics held on November 24th – 26th, 2016 at IIT, Guwahati.
- “Wage Structure and Wage Differentials in formal and informal sectors in India: Evidence from NSS data” presented in the 53rd Annual conference of the Indian Econometric Society held in NISER, Khordha, Orissa on December 22nd – 24th, 2016.
- “Unfair Advantage: Understanding caste discrimination in urban India”, presented in the International seminar on ‘Change and mobility in contemporary India: Thinking M. N. Srinivas Today’ held in Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore on 29-30 August, 2017.
- “Social identity and Discrimination in the Indian Labour Market” presented in the 54th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society, held in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu and Kashmir from March 7th to 9th, 2018.
- “Youth, Endogenous Discrimination and Development Conundrum”, presented in the international conference on Youth Specific SDGs: Key Challenges and Policy Responses, held in RGNIYD, Tamil Nadu, from 25th – 27th July, 2018.
- “Globalization and Gender wage ap in India: Evidence from NSS data” presented in the Indian Society of Labour Economics conference which was held in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai from 19th December, 2018 to 21 December, 2018
- “ The changing trend and pattern of wage inequality in India” presented in the National Conference on “Consolidating SDGs to drive Socio-economic development” which was held in Amity School of Economics, Amity University, Noida,UP from 14th March, 2019 to 15th March, 2019, Published abstract’ ISBN: 978-93-5351-555-3.
Awards / Fellowship
- Received Surjit Singh Young Labour Economist Award in 62nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand on 11th to 13th April, 2022.
- Qualified UGC- National Eligibility Test for Assistant professor held on 3rd December, 2019.
- Qualified Karnataka State Level Eligibility Test for Assistant professorship held in 2013.
- Received Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) fellowship for Ph.D. work during 2012 to 2015.
- Received ISEC Ph.D fellowship and Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshaiah Trust Scholarship for the doctoral studies at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC).
- Received UGC fellowship for Pursuing M. Phil degree at Pondicherry University, Puducherry.
Professional Experience
- Associate Fellow, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India (1st July, 2021 to 30th June, 2022)
- Resource Person, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamsala, India (11th May, 2021 to 30th July, 2021)
- Visiting Faculty, Amity University, Noida, India (18rd Dec, 2021 to 30th April, 2021)
- Post-Doctoral Contract Fellow, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India (1st November, 2019 to 31st October,2020)
- Assistant Professor, Amity School of Economics, Amity University, Noida-201303 (19th November, 2018 to 25th October, 2019)
- Guest faculty in S.C.S (Autonomous) College, Puri, Odisha-752001 (4th July, 2018 to 3rd November, 2018)
- Ph.D. in Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Change (affiliated to Mysore University), India, Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Labour Market Discrimination in India: An Econometric Analysis, (August, 2013- March, 2018)
Other
- Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer
- Indian Journal of Human Development, sage Publication
- Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer
