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Ira N. Gang Is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, where he has been since 1986. He obtained his doctorate in Economics from Cornell University in 1983. Before Rutgers he taught at Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate School and at Duke. In 1990 and 1994 he visited Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Other research visits brought him to Sri Lanka, India, Tajikistan,among other places. Since April 1998, he is a research fellow of IZA, Bonn.
Ira Gang is Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and the India Growth and Development review. He is a co-editor of Economics-ejournal.org and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Market Integration, the Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, and the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. He has published in Journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, The Journal of Development Economics,Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, and Economic Development and Cultural Change. Recent research interests include both theoretical and empirical issues in developing and transition economies, with particular attention to labor markets. In the area of migration economics his work has concentrated on the labor market impacts of immigration in Europe and the U.S., on immigrant assimilation, and on the political economy of immigration.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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| 6295 |
Ira N. Gang
Kunal Sen
Myeong-Su Yun
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India
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| 6236 |
Ilhom Abdulloev
Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
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Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227) |
| 5641 |
Ralitza Dimova
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
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| 5610 |
Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou
Daniel Hoffman
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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?
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| 5607 |
Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
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Revealed Informal Activity
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| 5123 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Migration and Culture
(published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010) |
| 5059 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339) |
| 4153 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (2), 374-385) |
| 3591 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 67-88) |
| 3585 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18) |
| 3453 |
Ira N. Gang
Kunal Sen
Myeong-Su Yun
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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India
(published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(39), 43-51) |
| 2682 |
Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 51(2): 242-264, 2009) |
| 2476 |
Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
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Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes
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| 2262 |
Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
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A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates: Algorithm and Example
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| 1772 |
Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
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Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(4), 754-773) |
| 1711 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (2), 285-296) |
| 1244 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (4), 652 - 665) |
| 1237 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Who Is the Enemy?
(published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2007, 18 (6), 469–484) |
| 1232 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
(published in: Foders, Federico and Langhammer, Rolf J. (eds), Labor Mobility and the World Economy. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, 85-103) |
| 1227 |
Ira N. Gang
Gil S. Epstein
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
(published in: Public Choice, 2007, 132 (3-4), 257-271) |
| 1158 |
Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
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Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (3), 612-629 ) |
| 1151 |
Ira N. Gang
Robert C. Stuart
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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
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| 713 |
Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
Myeong-Su Yun
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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility
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| 629 |
Ira N. Gang
Kunal Sen
Myeong-Su Yun
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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
(revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70) |
| 580 |
Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
Myeong-Su Yun
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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14) |
| 579 |
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
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Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition
(published as: 'Decomposing Male Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition' in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 43-54) |
| 578 |
Ira N. Gang
Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz
Myeong-Su Yun
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Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union
(revised version published as 'Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in: Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Emerald, 2010, 649-676) |
| 572 |
Catherine Y. Co
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
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Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2005, 9 (2), 150-165) |
| 558 |
Thomas K. Bauer
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662) |
| 551 |
Thomas K. Bauer
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 199-229) |
| 547 |
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
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| 200 |
Thomas K. Bauer
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
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What are Migration Networks?
(revised version published as 'Measuring ethnic linkages among migrants' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 56-69) |
| 180 |
Thomas K. Bauer
Ira N. Gang
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
(published in: Labour, 2001, 15 (2), 237-255;
see IZA Reprints 104/01) |
| 70 |
Ira N. Gang
Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz
Myeong-Su Yun
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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community
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| 57 |
Ira N. Gang
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35 (3), 550-569;
see IZA Reprints 54/00) |
| 19 |
Catherine Y. Co
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
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Returns to Returning: Who Went Abroad and What Does it Matter?
(published in: Journal of Population Economics 2000, 13 (1), 57-79;
see IZA Reprints 36/00) |
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Thomas K. Bauer
Ira N. Gang
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Temporary Migrants From Egypt: How Long Do They Stay Abroad?
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