About Ihsaan Bassier
I am a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Surrey. My fields are labour and development, 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.
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.
November 2025
When do employers share? Rent sharing, monopsony and minimum wages
Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender