Gil S. Epstein

Research Fellow

Bar-Ilan University

Gil.Epstein@biu.ac.il

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Research Interests

Gil S. Epstein obtained his doctorate in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 1994. After spending two and a half years at the University of Pennsylvania he joined the Department of Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Gil is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and is an Associate Editor for economics. In addition, he is a Research Fellow in IZA and a Research Fellow in CReAM.

Gil has published in Journals such as Management Science, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, Social Choice and Welfare and Journal of Public Economics. His book on Endogenous Public Policy and Contests (2007)(coauthored with Shmuel Nitzan) has been published by Springer. Gil also edited together with Ira N. Gang a volume on Migration and Culture (2010) which was published by Emerald.

His current research interests include issues in Political Economy, Public Choice, Labor Economics, Migration and Public Policy.

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IZA Publications

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. 5051

Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem

published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4234

Network Formations among Immigrants and Natives

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

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