Ihsaan Bassier

About

I am a postdoctoral research economist working with Alan Manning at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I work in the field of labour, mainly on firms and inequality. I will be starting as a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Surrey in September 2024.

I have several works in progress, which follow a research agenda on firm wage-setting power. This includes estimating recruitment elasticities, collective bargaining spillovers (currently R&R at JEEA), and how monopsony power affects structual development. My work has been published in the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Development Economics.

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.