People
Vijai P. Singh, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison 1970
Title: Professor
Campus Address: 2607 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-624-7563
E-mail: singh@pitt.edu
Fields
Inequality, scientific innovations and economic transformation, urban policy
Teaching
Urban policy, social stratification and mobility
Selected Publications
Research Methodology in Geography: Social, Spatial and Policy Dimensions. with H.N. Misra (ed.). New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 1998
"Technology, producer services and the new international division of labor," with William Haller, Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. XII, No.1, pp. 4-18, 1996.
"The new role of information technology in the international division of labor," pp. 64-80, with William Haller, in Mary Feeny and Maureen Grieves (eds.), Changing Information Technologies: Research Challenges in the Economics of Information. London, England: Bowker-Saur, 1994.
"The underclass in the United States: some correlates of economic change." Sociological Inquiry, 61: 505-521, 1992.
Honors/Awards
Senior Research Fellow (elected), Centre d’Etudes de Populations, de Pauvrete et de Politiques Socio-Economiques, Luxembourg, 1999
Academic Delegate, Germany Today: Politics, Economics and Culture. German Academic Exchange Service, Summer 1997.
Post-doctoral Fellow, (NICHD) Post-doctoral Summer Institute in Demography, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, Summer 1973.
Post-doctoral Fellow (NIH), Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1970-1971
Projects
Comparative study of income distribution in the U.S., U.K. and Germany
Regions of innovation: Locations of biotechnology industry in the U.S., Germany and U.K.