Job Market Paper

Upskilling the Frontline: The Organizational Effects of Supervisor Training in Low-Wage Workplaces, with Christopher Woodruff (University of Oxford) and Atonu Rabbani (University of Dhaka). Available upon request. Link to report project available here.


Working Papers / Papers Under Review

Relative Autonomy in Private Transnational Regulatory Institutions: Shifting Power in Bangladesh Labor Governance, with Juliane Reinecke (University of Oxford) and Jimmy Donaghey (University of Southern Australia). Manuscript under review.

The variable geometry of building labor governance in global production: Trajectories of public, private and joint governance in the Bangladesh RMG sector 2013-2024, with Juliane Reinecke (University of Oxford) and Jimmy Donaghey (University of Southern Australia). Manuscript under review.

Impact of soft skills training on employment outcomes for youth in Bangladesh, with Iman Sen (University of Maryland). Working paper available upon request. Link to policy paper available here.

International labor migration and economic development: Evidence from Bangladesh. Link to working paper.


Publications

Using Migration Patterns to Predict COVID-19 Risk Exposure in Developing Countries, with Reshad Ahsan (University of Melbourne), Kazi Iqbal (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies), A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University) and Abu S. Shonchoy (Florida International University). Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 45(4), 1780-1800. with. 2020.   

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aepp.13387

Worker Voice and Labor Standards - Study of Participation Committees in Supply Chains. 2021. Manuscript submitted for publication. Better Work Discussion Paper 41, Available at: https://betterwork.org/portfolio/better-work-discussion-paper-41-worker-voice-and-laborstandards/

The changing nature of employee and labor-management relationships, with T.A. Kochan (MIT Sloan), C.A. Riordan (University of Illinois), A.M. Kowalski (MIT Sloan), and Duanyi Yang (Cornell University). 2019. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 6, pp.195-219.

Sharing Responsibility for the Rohingya Crisis: What Role Can Labor Mobility Agreements Play? with Helen Dempster. 2019. The Center for Global Development, Available at: https://www.cgdev.org/publication/sharing-responsibility-rohingya-crisis

Worker Voice and Labor Standards - Study of Participation Committees in Supply Chains. 2021. Manuscript submitted for publication. Better Work Discussion Paper 41, Available at: https://betterwork.org/portfolio/better-work-discussion-paper-41-worker-voice-and-laborstandards/