Research

Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labour Supply? Evidence from around Europe (with François-Charles Wolff). Forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics.

Allocation of Labor in Urban West Africa: Insights from the Pattern of Labor Supply and Skill Premiums (with Christophe Nordman and François Roubaud), Review of Development Economics, forthcoming.

Are Private Transfers Poverty and Inequality Reducing? Household Level Evidence from Bulgaria (with François-Charles Wolff). Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 36, n° 4, pp. 584-598 (2008).

Upstream Transfers and the Donor's Labour Supply. Evidence from Migrants Living in France (with François-Charles Wolff). The Manchester School, vol. 77, n° 2, pp. 204-224 (2009).

Grandchild Care Transfers by Ageing Immigrants in France: Intra-household Allocations and Labour Market Implications (with François-Charles Wolff). European Journal of Population, vol. 24, n° 3, pp. 315-340 (2008).

Economic Reforms as a Tool to Attract Foreign Direct Investment: Is it a Chimera? (with Sumon K. Bhaumik). Applied Economics Letters, 16(9): 951-957 (2009).

The Impact of Labour Reallocation and Competitive Pressure on TFP Growth: Firm Level Evidence from Bulgaria. International Review of Applied Economics, 22(3), 321-338, (2008).

Self-selection and Wages during Volatile Transition. (with Ira N. Gang). Journal of Comparative Economics, 35(3), 612-619 (2007).

The Informal Sector during Crisis and Transition. (with Ira N. Gang and John Landon-Lane). In Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb and Ravi Kanbur (Eds.) Informal Labor Markets in Development, Palgrave Macmillan (2006).

Monopolistic Wages or Efficient Contracts: What Determined the Wage-Employment Bargain in Post-Privatization Bulgaria. Economics of Transition, 14(2), 321-47, (2006).

How do Migrants Care for Their Elderly Parents: Time, Money and Location. (with François-Charles Wolff). Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Special Issue from the First Conference on Long-term Care, 142, 123-130, (2006).

How Important is Ownership in a Market with a Level Playing Field. The Indian Banking Industry Revisited (with Sumon K. Bhaumik). Journal of Comparative Economics, 32 (1), 165-180, (2004).

Ganyu Labour in Malawi: Efficiency Problems and Determinants of Supply (with Katharina Michaelowa and Anke Weber).Revise and resubmit.

Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Labor Allocation across Genders (with Ira N. Gang and John Landon-Lane). In submission.

Social Mobility Sans Frontières? Evidence from a Sample of Immigrants in France (with Claudine Attias-Donfut). Revise and resubmit.

Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labour Markets. Does the State of Development Matter? (with Sumon Bhaumik and Jeffrey Nugent). IZA Discussion Paper 2258, Bonn, Germany

Remittances, Child Labor and Migration. Theory and Evidence from the Kagera region in Tanzania (with Ira N. Gang and Gil Epstein).

Institutional Determinants of Firm Level Productivity around the Developing World. (with Sumon K. Bhaumik).