Ira N. Gang

Research Fellow

Rutgers University

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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, 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. 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
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