Ira N. Gang

Research Fellow

Rutgers University

gang@economics.rutgers.edu

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Research Interests

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, 1994 and 2013 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 which he has visited many times.

Ira Gang is Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and the India Growth and Development review. He is on the editorial boards of the Review of Market Integration, 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 Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15301

Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Sule Akkoyunlu, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13854

Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India's Informal Sector Firms

Ira N. Gang, Rajesh Raj Natarajan, Kunal Sen

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1383-1402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12088

Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11160

Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11149

Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26, 999 - 1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11148

Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published as 'Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisation' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 101743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8653

Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: in Mak Arvin (ed.): Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, 2015, 488 - 502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8464

Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan

Ira N. Gang, Achim Schmillen

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 605 621

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8226

Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2014, 26 (4), 509–526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8004

Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot & Jessie Bakens (eds) Economics on Cultural Diversity, 2015, Edward Elgar Pub: Cheltenham, UK, 52-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7907

Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 242-253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6295

Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2017, 29(2), 476–492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6236

Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5641

Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Ralitza Dimova, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 735-747.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5610

Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Daniel Hoffman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5607

Revealed Informal Activity

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5123

Migration and Culture

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5059

A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4153

Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (2), 374-385

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3591

Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 67-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3585

Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3453

Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(39), 43-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2682

Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 51(2): 242-264, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2476

Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2262

A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates: Algorithm and Example

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1772

Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(4), 754-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1711

Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (2), 285-296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1244

The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (4), 652 - 665

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1237

Who Is the Enemy?

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2007, 18 (6), 469–484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1232

Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Foders, Federico and Langhammer, Rolf J. (eds), Labor Mobility and the World Economy. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, 85-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1227

Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Ira N. Gang, Gil S. Epstein

published in: Public Choice, 2007, 132 (3-4), 257-271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1158

Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (3), 612-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1151

Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 713

Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 629

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 580

Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 579

Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition

Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 578

Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Ira N. Gang, Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Myeong-Su Yun

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 572

Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

Catherine Y. Co, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2005, 9 (2), 150-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 558

Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662

IZA Discussion Paper No. 551

Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 199-229