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Elhanan Helpman - Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University
Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009 is a splendid book on an important topic. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union immigrants from its member countries poured into Israel, increasing its population by 20 percent. The book studies their absorption in the Israeli economy and their impact on local workers, using detailed data sets that have been assembled for this purpose. The topic is fascinating and the analysis exemplary both in depth and breadth.
Barry Chiswick Chair of the Economics Department, George Washington University
Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990-2009 constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the adjustment and impact of immigrants on the destination country. One advantage of this study of Israel is the unique experience of a large (relative to the host economy) exogenous immigration. Another is that it is not on an English-speaking developed economy of overseas settlement, which are the source of so much of the immigration literature. As a result, this book helps put into perspective the research findings on immigration among the English-speaking developed countries.
Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Soviet Jews emigrated in large numbers to Israel. Over the next ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, an influx that equaled about twenty percent of the Israeli population. Most of these new immigrants of working age were college-educated and highly skilled. Once in Israel, they were eligible for a generous package of benefits, including housing subsidies, Hebrew language training, and vocational education. This episode provides a natural experiment for testing the consequences of a large immigration inflow of skilled workers. This book provides a detailed analysis of the gradual process of occupational upgrading of immigrants and the associated rise in their wages.
Presentations
Z. Eckstein and S. Cohen “Immigrants in the Labor Market: Impact, Integration and Methods“, 2001.
Z. Eckstein and S. Cohen “Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities“, 2002.
Eleanor Cooper, Westlake High School, 9th grade (freshman) “Russians in Israel: A Flood of Immigrants“, 2005.
Z. Eckstein “Immigrants and the Labor Market: Facts and Policy“, 2006.
Related Papers
Related Papers
- M. Gotlibovski “Absorption of 1990-92 Immigrants in Israel: Interaction between Housing and Labor Markets“, 1997 (Hebrew).
- S. Cohen and C. T. Hsieh “Macroeconomic and Labor Market Impact of Russian Immigration in Israel“, 2001.
- Z. Eckstein and Y. Weiss “The Integration of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Labor Market“, 2002.
- Y. Weiss, R. Sauer and M. Gotlibovski “Immigration, Search and Loss of Skill“, 2003.
- Z. Eckstein and Y. Weiss “On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel 1990-2000“, 2004.
- S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language, and Opportunities“, 2008.
- S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants“, 2010.
Other Papers
- S. Cohen “Training and Work Experience Effects on Absorption of Female Immigrants in Labor Market“, 2001 (Hebrew).
- Z. Eckstein and S. Cohen “Participation of USSR Female Immigrants in Vocational Training“, 2001 (Hebrew).
- S. Cohen and Z. Eckstein “The Participation of Female Immigrants in Vocational Trainings“, 2002.
- S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies for Female Immigrants“, 2005.
- S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies for Female Immigrants“, 2006 (Hebrew).
- S. Cohen-Goldner “Immigrants in the Israeli Hi-Tech Industry: Comparison to Natives and the Effect of Training“, 2006.
- S. Cohen-Goldner, Z. Eckstein and T. Larom “Ten Years of Integration of Former Soviet Union Immigrants in the Israeli Labor Market“, 2006 (Hebrew).
Materials
Tables and Figures
We present a complete set of the tables and figures included in the book, along with the code used to construct them (where available). Note that the Excel files include hidden worksheets containing the data and calculations.
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code for Figures 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 7.5 |
Description of Data Files
used in chapters 2, 4 and 7 provided by the Israel Social Science Data Center (ISDC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
used in chapter 7 provided by the Israel Social Science Data Center (ISDC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
used in chapters 2 and 7 provided by the Israel Social Science Data Center (ISDC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
used in chapter 4 |