Dr. Shahida Pervin
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Research in Progress

Impact of large-scale refugee influx on the host country's labor market: Evidence from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

(with Keisaku Higashida, Yuki Higuchi, Ryo Takahashi).
ASSA conf 2026

Intergenerational effects of the labor market in Bangladesh

Migration and labor shortage in Japan

Principal investigator of JSPS grant

Survey experiment on local migration concern (research is in an early stage)

(with Mai Seki).

Agricultural Food Safety: Assessment of Domestic Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain

To present a poster at the 12th International Conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) in Jakarta, Indonesia, 28–31 October 2026.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Multi-stakeholder safety enforcement: Implications for employment and factories in Bangladesh's export-oriented RMG industry

Shahida Pervin
Safety Science, 195 (2026).

What Factors Influence Chinese Government Bond Yields?

Tanweer Akram and Shahida Pervin
PSL Quarterly Review, 78(313), 247-282 (2025).
Levy Institute Working Paper

Effects of Government Jobs on the Labour Market in Bangladesh

Shahida Pervin
The Journal of Development Studies, 60(10), 1609–1630 (2024).
Newspaper article

Assessing Agricultural Food Safety Issue: The Case of Bangladesh

Shahida Pervin and Habibur Rahman
The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 29, 29–44 (2018).
Research report

Household-level Analysis of Women's Power Practice in Old Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Shahida Pervin, Md. Azam Khan, and Md. Mahmud Hasan Shah
Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 13(1), 174–203 (2014).

BOOK

Khatun, F., Pervin, S., and Rahman, Md. M. (2018). Bangladesh's pursuit of the 2030 Agenda: Will it facilitate smooth transition after LDC graduation? In Bhattacharya, D. (ed.) Bangladesh's Graduation from the Least Developed Countries Group: Pitfalls and Promises. 1st Edition, Routledge.
Khatun, F., Khan, T. I., Pervin, S., and Jahan H. (2015). Estimating Women's Contribution to the Economy: The Case of Bangladesh. Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Manusher Jonno Foundation, Dhaka. Newspaper article

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHERS

Akram, T. and Pervin, S. (2024). Empirical Models of Chinese Government Bond Yields Working Paper No. 1044, Levy Economics Institute.
Pervin, S. (2023). Government job recruitment: Is the age limit of 30 years a rational policy?. The Daily Star
Pervin, S. (2023). Assessment of Fruits and Vegetables Market Structure to Ensure Safe Food Supply.. Independent Research Project, under the auspices of Ministry of Planning, Bangladesh. [Research Report]

Conference / Seminar / Talk

2026

"Impact of large-scale refugee influx on the host country's labor market: Evidence from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh." (with Keisaku Higashida, Yuki Higuchi, Mohammad Mosharraf, Ryo Takahashi) to be presented at the ASSA 2026 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 3-5 January, 2026.
Attended: Japanese Association for Development Economics (JADE) 11-12 April

2025

"Migration to Address Labor Shortage in Japan" (with Lei Lei) presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the SOAS, 28-29 August 2025. Program
"Fellow" at the Levy Institute Summer Seminar on Money, Finance, and Public Policy, Bard College, New York, 15-20 June 2025. Details
"What Factors Influence Chinese Government Bond Yields?" (with Tanweer Akram) presented at the IDE-JETRO APL regular seminar, Chiba, Japan, 27 March 2025. IDE-JETRO
"What Factors Influence Chinese Government Bond Yields?" (With Tanweer Akram) presented (online) at the 8th SANEM Annual Economists' Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-22 February 2025.
"Discussant" at the ASSA 2025 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 2-5 January 2025.

2024

"Migration to Address Labor Shortage in Japan: Evidence from Immigration Policy" (with Lei Lei) presented (online) at the 3rd International Conference on Japan−Bangladesh Research and Practice (JBRP2024), 29-30 November 2024.
"Labor Market Effects of Public Sector Hiring Policies and International Apparel Sector Monitoring in Bangladesh" presented at CPD in-house dialogue, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 February 2024.

2023

"Are attractive government jobs distorting the labor market? Evidence from Bangladesh" delivered a talk (online) at ReForm, Bangladesh Institute Governance and Management (BIGM), 3 September 2023. Watch
"Are attractive government jobs distorting the labor market? Evidence from Bangladesh" presented at the 2nd Asian Economic Development Conference, University of Tokyo, Japan, 15-16 July 2023. Program
"Effects of Safety Law Enforcement on the Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from a Multinational Involvement in the Apparel Sector of Bangladesh" presented (online) at GRIPS Policy Analysis Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 11 May 2023.
"Are attractive government jobs distorting the labor market? Evidence from Bangladesh" presented (online) at the 6th SANEM Annual Economists' Conference (SAEC) 2023, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4-5 February 2023. Conference
"Are attractive government jobs distorting the labor market? Evidence from Bangladesh" presented at GRIPS Policy Analysis Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 12 January 2023.

2022

"Are attractive government jobs distorting the labor market? Evidence from Bangladesh" presented at the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) 2022 Conference, Tokyo, 8-10 December 2022. Conference
"Effects of Safety Law Enforcement on the Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from a Multinational Involvement in the Apparel Sector of Bangladesh" presented (online) at the Western Economics Association International (WEAI) 2022 Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 29—July 3, 2022. Program

2021

"Are attractive government jobs distorting the labor market? Evidence from Bangladesh" presented (online) at the 77th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Reykjavík, Iceland, 18-20 August 2021. Congress
"Effects of Safety Law Enforcement on the Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from a Multinational Involvement in the Apparel Sector of Bangladesh" presented (online) at the LDC Future Forum. Event

2017

"Women's Contribution to the Economy: The Case of Bangladesh" participated as a Young Global Changer at the Think20 Summit Global Solutions mandated by the 2017 German presidency, Berlin, Germany, 29–30 May 2017. Summit

2015

"Dynamics of Labour Force Participation in Bangladesh with Special Reference to Women" presented in-person at the Young Scholar Seminar Series (YSSS), Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka. Event

2013

"Towards Bangladesh-at-50 Food Security in Bangladesh: Issues and Challenges" presented in-person at Dhaka School of Economics, Bangladesh Economic Association Auditorium, Eskaton, Dhaka.

Training, Workshop, etc. as Participant

"Oxford EMI training" by the team of Oxford EMI trainers, 2-6 September 2024, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Workshop on "Cutting Edge Research on Economic Growth", South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) and Department of International Development (DFID), 19 February 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Workshop for Empirical Trade Analysis "Impact of trade facilitation and aid for trade", WTO/ESCAP, 21-24 December 2015, Bangkok, Thailand.
Training on "Labour Economics: Theories, Methodologies and Research Issues", South Asia Research Network on Employment and Social Protection for Inclusive Growth (SARNET), Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, 12-16 October 2015.
Workshop on "Universal Health Care, Anti-Microbial Resistance & Access to Medicines", Third World Network and Commonwealth Foundation, 6-7 April 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Training on "CGE Modeling" organized by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), SANEM, and Centre for WTO Studies (CWS), 20-24 November 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Training on "System of National Accounts" organized by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), 16-20 February 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Workshop on "Green Banking and Green Economy" organized by Bangladesh Economic Association, 5 October 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh.