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. 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
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