Ihsaan Bassier

About

I am a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Surrey. My fields are development and labour, mostly using applied empirical methods with administrative data and simple models. 

My research agenda focuses on workers in firms, with questions relating to wage-setting, inequality and development.  Much of my framework is from a monopsony lense, and I estimate implications for firm labour supply elasticities, collective bargaining, and structural development. My work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Development Economics.

I am affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE,  where I worked as a postdoc with Alan Manning. I am also an affiliate of SALDRU at the University of Cape Town, where I have conducted policy work for the South African presidency. I received my PhD (Sept. 2017-2022) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, under my primary advisor Arindrajit Dube.