Project

Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel

Publications

1. Z. Eckstein and K.I. Wolpin “Dynamic Labor Force Participation of Married Women and Endogenous Work Experience“, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 56, 1989, 375-590.
2. Z. Eckstein and K.I. Wolpin “The Specification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic Discrete Choice Models: A Survey“, Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 24, 1989, 562-598.
3. Z. Eckstein and K.I. Wolpin “Estimating a Market Equilibrium Search Model from Panel Data on Individuals“, Econometrica, Vol. 58, 1990, 783-808.
4. Z. Eckstein and I. Zilcha “The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Growth, Income Distribution and Welfare“, The Economic Quarterly, 40, 1993, 243-251 (Hebrew).
5. Z. Eckstein and I. Zilcha “The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Growth, Income Distribution and Welfare“, Journal of Public Economics, 54, 1994, 339-359.
6. Z. Eckstein and K.I. Wolpin “Duration to First Job and the Return to Schooling: Estimates from a Search-Matching Model“, Review of Economic Studies, 1995, 62, 263-286.
7. Z. Eckstein and C. Gotlibovski, “Employment Vouchers: Subsidizing the Integration of Academic Immigrants in the Labor Market“, The Economic Quarterly, 43(3), 1996, 454-481 (Hebrew).
8. Z. Eckstein and K.I. Wolpin “Estimating the Effect of Racial Discrimination on First Job Wage Offers“, Review of Economics and Statistics, 81(3), 1999, 384-392.
9. Z. Eckstein and K.I. Wolpin “Why Youth Drop out of High School: The Impact of Preferences, Opportunities and Abilities“, Econometrica 67 no.6, 1999, 1295-1339.
10. Z. Eckstein and S. Cohen “Participation of USSR Female Immigrants in Vocational Training“, The Economic Quarterly, 48(3), 2001, 335-357 (Hebrew).
11. A. J. Bowlus and Z. Eckstein “Discrimination and Skill differences in an Equilibrium Search Model“, International Economic Review, Vol. 43(4), 2002, 1309-1345.
12. Z. Eckstein and Y. Weiss “The Integration of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Labor Market“, in Ben-Bassat Avi (ed.), The Israeli Economy, 1985-1998: From Government Intervention to Market Economics, Essays in Memory of Prof. Michael Bruno, MIT Press, 2002.
13. Z. Eckstein “Israeli Men do not Work, What Should be Done?“, The Economic Quarterly, 49(3), 2002, 425-432 (Hebrew)
14. Z. Eckstein and Y. Weiss “On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel 1990-2000“, Journal of European Economic Association, 2004, 2(4), 665-695.
15. Z. Eckstein and E. Nagypal “The Evolution of U.S. Earnings Inequality: 1961-2002“, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, December 2004, pp. 10-29.
16. Z. Eckstein and S. Cohen-Goldner “Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies for Female Immigrants“, The Economic Quarterly, 53(3), 2006, 440-462 (Hebrew).
17. Z. Eckstein and R. Shachar “Correcting for Bias in Retrospective Data“, Journal of Applied Economics, 22(3), 2007, 657-675.
18. Z. Eckstein and G. J. van den Berg “Empirical Labor Search: A Survey“, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, Vol. 136(2), February 2007, pp. 531-564.
19. S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities“, International Economic Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, August 2008, pp. 837-872.
20. S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants“, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 156(1), May 2010, pp. 86-105.
21. Z. Eckstein, S. Ge and B. Petrongolo “Job and Wage Mobility with Minimum Wages and Imperfect Compliance“, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 26, No. 4, July 2011, pp. 580-612.
22. Z. Eckstein and O. Lifshitz “Dynamic Female Labor Supply“, Econometrica, Vol. 79, No. 6, November 2011, pp. 1675-1726.
23. S. Cohen Goldner, Z. Eckstein and Y. Weiss “Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009“, The MIT Press, September 2012.
24. Z. Eckstein and O. Lifshitz “Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women“, International Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, May 2015, pp. 427-455.
25. S. Cohen-Goldner, Z. Eckstein and Y. Weiss “The Immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel: Evidence and Interpretation “, in Dustmann Christian (ed.), Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge , Oxford University Press,  2015.
26. Z. Eckstein, M. Keane and O. Lifshitz “Career and Family Decisions: Cohorts born 1935 – 1975“, Econometrica, Vol. 87, No. 1, January 2019, pp. 217-253. Appendix
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27. Z. Eckstein, T. Larom and O. Lifshitz “The Israeli Labor Market, 1995–2015 “, in A. Ben-Bassat, R. Gronau and A. Zussman (eds.), Lights and Shadows in Market Economics: The Israeli Economy 1995-2015, Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Discussion Papers

1. S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Immigrants in the Hi-Tech Sector: Comparison to Natives and the Effect of Training“, September 2004.
2. S. Cohen-Goldner and Z. Eckstein “Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies for Female Immigrants“, July 2005.
3. S. Cohen-Goldner, Z. Eckstein and T. Larom “Ten Years of Integration of Former Soviet Union Immigrants in the Israeli Labor Market“, August 2006 (Hebrew).
4. Zvi Eckstein, Michael Keane and Osnat Lifshitz, ” What Explains the Growing Gender education Gap?  The Effect of Parental Background, The Labour market and the Marriage Market on College Attainment,” November 2023.

Presentations

1. “The Evolution of U.S. Earnings Inequality: 1961-2002“, December 2004.
2. “Dynamic Female Labor Supply“, December 2010.
3. “Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women“, October 2011.