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[W14] Does the Glass Ceiling Exist?:  A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility
[W13] Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India (with Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun)
[W12] Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism (with Gil S. Epstein)

[W11] Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility (with John Landon-Lane & Myeong-Su Yun)

[W10] Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition (with Myeong-Su Yun)

[W9] Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. (with Thomas Bauer & Gil Epstein)

[W8] Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants (with Thomas Bauer and Gil Epstein)

[W7] Networks and the Duration of Temporary Migration (with Thomas Bauer)

[W6] Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union  (with Francisco Rivera-Batiz & Myeong-Su Yun)

[W5] Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives (with Francisco Rivera-Batiz & Myeong-Su Yun)

[W4] Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling

[W3] Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition (with Catherine Y. Co & Myong-Su Yun)

[W2] Value Added Tax Evasion, Auditing and Transactions Matching  (with Arindam Das-Gupta)

[W1] Government and Cities: Rent-seeking and the Decentralization of Decision Making (with Gil Epstein)

Pending 
Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility (with John Landon-Lane and Myeong-Su Yun)
Analyzing Wage Change in East Germany during the Last Decade (with Myeong-Su Yun)

Journal Articlesback to Published Papers
[J49] Rent Seeking in Hierarchical Firms (with Gil S. Epstein), Arthaniti(2002), forthcomining
[J48] The Political Economy of Russian City Growth (with Robert C. Stuart), Economic Development and Cultural Change 50 (2002) 491-508 [J46] The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997 (with Myeong-Su Yun), DIW-Vierteljahrshefte (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research), 1-01 (2001) 123-127
[J45] Corruption, Tax Evasion and the Laffer Curve (with Omkar Goswami and Amal Sanyal), Public Choice 105 (2000) 61-78
[J44] Decomposing Revenue Effects of Tax Evasion, Base Broadening and Tax Rate Reduction (with Arindam Das-Gupta), International Tax and Public Finance, 7 (2000) 177-94 [J42] Returns to Returning (with Cathy Y. Co and Myeong-Su Yun), Journal of Population Economics, 13 (2000) 57-80
[J41] Does Background Matter?  The Transmission of Human Capital Across Economic Systems (with Robert C. Stuart), International Migration Review, 34 (2000) 511-537
[J40] Liberalization Policy: ‘Fits and Starts’ or Gradual Change in India (with Mohammed Ansari), Comparative Economic Studies, 41 (1999) 23-46
[J39] Siblings, Their Sex Composition and Educational Attainment in Germany (with Thomas Bauer), DIW-Vierteljahrshefte(Quarterly Journal of Economic Research), 2-99 (1999) 215-221
[J38] Mobility Where Mobility is Illegal: Internal Migration and City Growth in the Soviet Union (with Robert C. Stuart), Journal of Population Economics, 12 (1999) 117-134
[J37] Foreign Aid and Fiscal Behavior in a Bounded Rationality Model:  Different Policy Regimes (with Haider Ali Khan), Empirical Economics, 24 (1999) 121-134
[J36] What Was Protected?  Measuring India's Tariff Barriers 1968-1992 (with Mihir Pandey), Indian Economic Review, 33 (1998) 119-152
[J35] Published and Realized Tariffs: the Weak Link (with Mihir Pandey), Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII No. 46., November 14-20 (1998) 2939-2942
[J34] A Comparison of Sales Taxes (with Arindam Das-Gupta)Public Finance, 51 (1996) 217-225. Published in 1998
[J33] What Difference Does a Country Make? Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union and in the United States (with Robert C. Stuart), Special Issue of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, edited by Barry R. Chiswick, 37 (1997) 345-360
[J32] Schooling, Parents and Country, DIW-Vierteljahrshefte(Quarterly Journal of Economic Research), 1-97 (1997) 180-186
[J31] Revenue Motives and Trade Liberalization (with David Feldman),Review of International Economics, 4 (1996) 276-281
[J30] Urban to Urban Migration:  Soviet Patterns and Post-Soviet Implications (with Robert C. Stuart), Comparative Economic Studies, 38 (1996) 21-36 [J28] Reply to White 'Foreign Aid, Taxes and Public Investment: A Further Comment' (with Haider Ali Khan),  Journal of Development Economics, 45 (1994) 165-167
[J27] Labor Market Effects of Immigration in the United States and Europe: Substitution vs. Complementarity (with Francisco Rivera-Batiz),Journal of Population Economics, 7 (1994) 157-175.  Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas Bauer, eds, Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Pub., forthcoming, in Series: International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Series Editor Mark Blaug.
[J26] Reply to Tran-Nam Binh and Mark McGillivray, "Foreign Aid, Taxes and Public Investment: A Comment" (with Haider Ali Khan), Journal of Development Economics, 41 (1993) 177-78
[J25] Small Firm "Presence" in Indian Manufacturing,World Development, 20 (1992) 1377-1389
[J24] How Tied is Aid? The Case of Soviet Economic Assistance to India, 1961-84 (with Omkar Goswami), Economic Systems, 15 (1991) 177-193
[J23] A Model of the Informal Sector in Development (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), Journal of Economic Studies, 17 (1990) 19-31
[J22] Allocating Jobs Under a Minimum Wage: Queues vs. Lotteries (with Edward Tower), Economic Record, (1990) 186-194
[J21] LDC Labor Markets, Multinationals and Government Policies (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), International Review of Business and Economics, 37 (1990) 749-764
[J20] New Directions or Not: A.I.D. in Latin America (with James Lehman), World Development, 18 (1990) 723-732
[J19] Foreign Aid, Taxes, and Public Investment (with Haider Ali Khan), Journal of Development Economics, 34 (1990) 355-369
[J18] Some Determinants of Foreign Aid to India, 1960-1985 (with Haider Ali Khan), World Development, 18 (1990) 431-442. Reprinted in H.W. Singer, Neelanbar Hatti and Rameshwar Tandon, Aid and External Financing in the 1990s (New Delhi: Indus Publishing, 1991)
[J17] Financial Development and the Price of Services (with David Feldman), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 38 (1990) 341-352
[J16] Subsidy Policies with Capital Accumulation: Maintaining Employment Levels (with Bhaskar Dutta and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), Journal of Population Economics, 2 (1989) 301-318
[J15] The Stahl-Alexeev Paradox: A Note (with Edward Tower),Journal of Economic Theory, 44 (1988) 189-91
[J14] Foreign Aid and Development - Where Has All the Money Gone? (with Haider Ali Khan), Renaissance Universal Journal, 5 (1988) 36
[J13] Tariff Policy and Poverty Alleviation in a Harris-Todaro Type Economy, Indian Economic Journal, 35 (1987) 97-115
[J12] Financial Repression and the Price of Nontraded Goods (with David Feldman), Economics Letters, 25 (1987) 31-34
[J11] Distribution and Development Effects of Tariff-cum-Subsidy Policies (with Arindam Das-Gupta), Singapore Economic Review, 32 (1987) 71-86
[J10] A Framework for Analyzing Economies with Wage Differentials (with Arindam Das-Gupta), International Review of Business and Economics, 34 (1987) 869-886
[J9] Welfare Aspects of a Harris-Todaro Economy with Underemployment and Variable Prices (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), The Developing Economies, 25 (1987) 203-219
[J8] The Earnings Effects of Labor Organizations in 1890 (with Patricia Dillon), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 40 (1987) 516-526
[J7] Optimal Policies in a Dual Economy with Open Unemployment and Surplus Labour (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), Oxford Economic Papers, 39 (1987) 378-387
[J6] Employment, Output and the Choice of Techniques: The Trade-Offs Revisited (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), Journal of Development Economics, 25 (1987) 321-327
[J5] Differential Cash-in-Advance Constraints: A Good Reason for Protection in LDCs? (with Edward Tower), Eastern Africa Economic Review, 2 (1986) 193-195
[J4] An Approach to the Choice of Techniques Issue with Applications to South Korea and Sri Lanka (with Samson Ayo Alabi and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay),Eastern Africa Economic Review, 2 (1986) 111-122
[J3] Foreign Aid and Public Expenditures in LDCs (with Haider Ali Khan), Atlantic Economic Journal, 14 (1986) 56-58
[J2] A Note on Optimal Policies in Dual Economies (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 100 (1985) 1067-1071
[J1] Multinational Firms and Government Policy (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), Economics Letters, 17 (1985) 395-99 Chapters in Booksback to Published Papers [C8] Trade Liberalization Policy in India, in H.D. Vinod, ed., Study of Indian History and Culture, vol. 17, Economic History of India, 1995,  Bhishma Press, 374-387
[C7] Small Firms in India: A Discussion of Some Issues, in Dilip Mookherjee, ed., Economics of Indian Industry, 1995, Oxford University Press, 322-350.  Reprinted in paperback edition, 1997
[C6] The Pattern of U.S. -- Asian Pacific Rim Trade, 1965 -- 1987 (with Catherine Y. Co), in C.F. Lee, ed., Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance, volume I,  1995, JAI Press, 215-228
[C5] Unemployment and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in Germany (with Francisco Rivera-Batiz), in Gunter Steinmann and Ralf Ulrich, eds., Economic Consequences of Immigration to Germany, 1994, Physica-Verlag, 121-154
[C4] Government Policy for Foreign Direct Investment (with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay), in Bhaskar Dutta, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Dilip Mookherjee, and Debraj Ray, eds., Theoretical Issues in Development Economics, 1993, Oxford University Press, 209-220
[C3] OPEC Aid to Less-Developed Countries, in Siamack Shojai and Bernard S. Katz, eds., The Oil Market in the 1980s - A Decade of Decline, Praeger Publishers, 1992, 169-185
[C2] Taxes, Corruption and Bribes: A Model of Indian Public Finance (with Omkar Goswami and Amal Sanyal),  in Michael Roemer and Christine Jones, eds., Markets in Developing Countries: Parallel, Fragmented and Black, ICS Press, 1991, 201-213, 252-253
[C1] Labor Markets, Lorenz Curves and Development Strategies: Some Aspects (with Arindam Das-Gupta), in Maria Willumsen and Robert D. Cruz, eds., Modeling and Simulation, volume 19, part 1, Instrument Society of America, North Carolina, 1988, 101-106 Book Reviews, Discussions etc. back to Published Papers [R12] Planning and Economic Policy in India: Evaluation and Lessons for the Future, edited by Manabendu Chattopadhyay, Pradip Maiti and Mirhir Rakshit, book review, Journal of Comparative Economics, 26 (1998) 393-394
[R11] An Economics Scrapbook: A Catalog of Resources for Graduate Students in the Department of Economics (with Miles Yoshimura), ERIC#386397, RIEJAN96
[R10] Economic Theory of Growth and Development by David Z. Rich, book review, Journal of Developing Areas, 20 (1995) 582-83
[R9] Employment Generation and Poverty: A Rapporteur's Report, in Conference Volume, Mexico Conference on Social Development and Poverty (A Compendium), Department of Social Development, National Solidarity Program (1994)
[R8] The Samuel Gompers Papers, volume IV, book review.  Journal of Economic History,  53 (1993) 439-40
[R7] The Samuel Gompers Papers, volume III, book review.  Journal of Economic History, 50 (1990) 494-495
[R6] Macroeconomic Effects and Diffusion of Alternative Technologies within a Social Accounting Matrix Framework by Haider A. Khan and Erik Thorbecke, book review, Journal of Developing Areas, 24 (1990) 430-432
[R5] Introduction to Economics, in William Bate and Perry Frank, eds., Handbook for the Study of the United States, Washington D.C.: United States Information Agency, 1989, 166-174
[R4] The Less Developed Economy by Kaushik Basu, book review, Southern Economic Journal, 52 (1985) 292-93
[R3] Protection, Growth and Trade by W. Max Corden, book review, Southern Economic Journal, 53 (1986) 535-536
[R2] What Economists Do: Some Preliminary Thoughts, lecture presented at Shukugawa Gakuin College, Nishinomiya Japan, June 1985, Eigakkai Kaifu (Bulletin of English Language Studies), (December 1986) 3-4
[R1] International Trade and Protectionism: Discussion on Glenday and Jenkins, Contemporary Policy Issues Series, 4 (1984) 37-38 Edited Volumesback to Published Papers [E1] U.S. Immigration Patterns and Policy Reform in the 1980s (with Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Selig L. Sechzer), New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991