Ajay Sharma

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• Strategic Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) Certification and Endogenous Market Structure (with Siddhartha Rastogi), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics  (forthcoming)  
• Informality, Education-Occupation Mismatch, and Wages: Evidence from India (with Shweta Bahl), Applied Economics  
• Heterogeneity among migrants, education-occupation mis-match and returns to education: Evidence from India (with Shweta Bahl), Regional Studies.
• Returns to Formal and Informal Vocational Education and Training in India (with Shweta Bahl and Vasavi Bhatt), International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7), 1620-1645 .
• COVID-19 Pandemic, Lockdown and the Indian Labour Market: Evidence from Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018–2019 (with Vasavi Bhatt and Shweta Bahl), The Indian Economic Journal, 2021, 69 (4),  750-769
• Education-occupation mismatch and dispersion in returns to education: Evidence from India (with Shweta Bahl (Grover)), Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 251–298  .
• Regional Patterns and Determinants of Commuting Between Rural and Urban India (with Vasavi Bhatt and S Chandrasekhar), Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 1041–1063
• Misleading Advertising in Mixed Markets: Consumer-orientation and welfare outcomes, International Journal of Economics of Business, 2020, 27(2), 291-302.
• Commuting between rural and urban areas: evidence from India, Built Environment ,2019, 45(4), 493-506 .
• Nash Equilibrium in Tax and Public Investment Competition, (with Rupayan Pal), International Review of Economics and Finance , 2019, 62, 106-120.  
• Preferences over Public Good, Political Delegation and Leadership in Tax Competition, (with Rupayan Pal), Public Finance Review, 2019, 47(4), 718-746.  
• Pathways from agriculture-to-nutrition in India: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals, (with Mousumi Das and Suresh Babu), Food Security. 2018, 10(6), 1561-1576.
• A note on Stackelberg equilibrium in duopoly: Strategic use of corporate social responsibility, Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38(4), 1720-1726.  
• Migrant networks in urban labour market: Evidence from India, (with Mousumi Das), Journal of Development Studies, 2017.
• Competition for Foreign Capital under Asymmetric Revenue-Orientation, (with Rupayan Pal), Indian Economic Review (Special Volume on Applied Game Theory and Policy), 2016, 51(1-2), 105-116.
• Urban Proximity and Spatial Pattern of Land Use and Development in Rural India. Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(11), 1593-1611.
• Impact of Commuting by Workers on Household Dietary Diversity in Rural India, (with S Chandrasekhar), Food Policy, 2016, 59, 34-43.  
• Short-term Migration and Consumption Expenditure of Households in Rural India, (with S Chandrasekhar and Mousumi Das), Oxford Development Studies, 2015, 43(2), 105-122.  
• Urbanization and Spatial Patterns of Internal Migration in India, (with  S Chandrasekhar),  Spatial Demography, 2015, 3(2), 63-89.
• Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India, (with S Chandrasekhar), World Development, 2014, 61, 154-166.  
• Endogenizing governments’ objectives in tax competition, (with Rupayan Pal), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2013, 43(4), 570-578.  

Commentaries

• On the Spatial Concentration of Employment in India, (with S Chandrasekhar), Economic and Political Weekly (commentary), 2014, 49(21), 16-18.  
• On Domestic Tourism in India: Evidence from recent NSSO survey, (with Karthikeya Naraparaju), Economic and Political Weekly (commentary), 2017, 52(52), 27-30.

Chapters in Edited Books and Reports

• Labour Regulations and Worker Welfare: The Case of Provident Fund in India, (with Karthikeya Naraparaju), in India Development Report, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, 2017.
• The Commuting Worker and Integration of Rural-Urban Economy, chapter in  Subaltern Urbanization in India. An Introduction to Ordinary Towns’ Dynamics, Edited by: Eric Denis and Marie – Hélène Zérah, Springer, 2016.
• Internal Migration for Education and Employment among Youth in India, (with S Chandrasekhar), in State of Urban Youth India Report, Livelihood, Employment and Skills 2013, edited by Padma Prakash, commissioned by UN-HABITAT’s Global Urban Youth Research Network.
• On the Internal Mobility of Indians: Knowledge Gaps and Emerging Concerns, (with S Chandrasekhar), in India Development Report, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, 2012.