My research interests lie in the intersection of studying three areas: income inequality, economic development, and economic policy (especially labor market policies and industrial policies). I use quantitative and qualitative evidence within a political economy framework.
Published peer-reviewed research
Labor share decline across US manufacturing sectors: 1979–2019 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02692171.2024.2404976
Enhancing the Teaching of Radical Political Economy Through Multimedia Integration: A Pedagogical Framework
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/04866134241299060
Published book reviews
Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization by Sarrah Kassem (2023): A review https://doingsociology.org/2024/08/26/work-and-alienation-in-the-platform-economy-amazon-and-the-power-of-organization-sarrah-kassem-2023-a-review-by-swayamsiddha-sarangi/
Work in progress
Minimum wages and Vertical Restraints in Franchising (Swayamsiddha Sarangi, Blake Eliason, Sérgio Pinto, Marshall Steinbaum)
Payroll Share Dynamics in High and Low Payroll Share Subsectors
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5457000
Establishing stylized facts of concentration in US regional
labor markets (Ansel Schiavone, Swayamsiddha Sarangi)
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