Monojit Chatterji

Monojit Chatterji is Bonar Professor of Applied Economics. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay with First Class Honours in Economics and Statistics. He won a British Council scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, to read for the Economics Tripos. He graduated with First Class Honours in Economics and was awarded a Christ's College studentship. He also obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Dundee he lectured at the University of Essex and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of California, Purdue, Vassar, and Oregon in the United States, ITAM in Mexico, and the Indian Statistical Institute.

Awards and Honours

• Economics LTSN Annual Prize winner for Best Undergraduate course in the UK in 2000-01

Public Appointments

• Chair, Joint Negotiating Council of UK Fire and Emergency Services
• Member, School Teachers' Review Body
• Member, Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal

External Affiliations

• Member of the Royal Economic Society, American Economic Association, and European Association of Labour Economists
• External examiner at the Universities of Essex and London
• Member, BBC Governer's World Service Advisory Group
• Research Coordinator for Education and Training, Scottish Economic Policy Network

General research interests are in the economics of human resources and in economic development. Areas of expertise include the economics of education and training, trade unions and labour contracts, political economy of India and world development.

Research Papers

• Education and Economic Development in India, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no 210
  
  
• Flying High and Laying Low in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparison of Pay Differentials for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain, with Karen Mumford. University of Dundee Discussion Paper no 209
  
  
• The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential: Gender, Workplaces and Family Friendliness, with Karen Mumford and Peter N Smith. University of Dundee Discussion Paper no 202
  
  
• The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain: A Preliminary Analysis, with Karen Mumford. University of Dundee Discussion Paper no 201
  
  

Recent publications

• "Fit for Purpose", Report of the Remuneration Board of the National Assemby for Wales, March 2011
  
  
• "Determination on Members Pay and Allowances ", National Assembly for Wales Remuneration Board, March 2011
  
  
• "School Teachers Review Body, 18th report , Part Two", 2009, TSO
  
  
• “A Note on Export Platform Foreign Direct Investment, Training, and Absorptive Capacity”, (with Catia Montagna), forthcoming Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2008.
  
  
• “Training Hold Up and Social Labour Markets”, Labour Economics, Vol.15, No.2, April 08 , pp202-215.
  
  
• “A Test of the Signalling Hypothesis”, with L.Singell and P.T.Seaman, Oxford Economic Papers, 55, p191-215, 2003
  
  
• “Sickness, Absenteeism, ‘Presenteeism’ and Sick Pay”, with C.J.Tilley, Oxford Economic Papers, 54, p669-687, 2002
  
  
• "Tertiary Education and Economic Growth", Regional Studies, 32, p349-354, 1998
  
  
• "Training and Unions", with Alison Booth, Economic Journal, 108, p328-343, 1998
  
  
• "Tryst with an Uncertain Destiny", The New Statesman 15 August 1997, p28-30
  
  
• "Gateway to the Globe", The World Today, 53, p233-234, 1997