Immigration and labor market mobility in Israel, 1990-2009 / Sarit Cohen Goldner, Zvi Eckstein, and Yoram Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit, author.

Contributor:

Weiss, Yoram.

Eckstein, Zvi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Israel--Economic conditions.

Immigrants.

Foreign workers, Russian--Israel.

Foreign workers, Russian.

Labor market--Israel.

Labor market.

Emigration and immigration.

Economic conditions.

Israel--Emigration and immigration--Economic conditions.

Israel.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Background 2

1.3 Description of the Chapters 3

1.4 Lessons 11

2 The Aggregate Macroeconomic Impact of a Large Inflow of Immigrants 15

2.1 Introduction 15

2.2 Natives and Immigrants in the Labor Market 19

2.3 The Capital-Labor Ratio-Trends and Adjustment 26

2.4 An Open-Economy Equilibrium Model with Adjustment Costs 27

2.4.1 Model Specification 31

2.4.2 Calibration 32

2.4.3 Simulations 33

2.4.4 Related Literature 35

2.5 Immigration and GNP Growth: A Puzzle? 35

2.6 Summary 36

Appendix: Quality-Adjusted Labor 37

3 On the Wage Growth of Immigrants 41

3.1 Introduction 41

3.2 A Model for Immigrant Earning Equations 46

3.3 The Empirical Earning Function 50

3.4 Data 54

3.5 Estimation Results 56

3.5.1 Results for Natives 56

3.5.2 Results for Immigrants 57

3.6 Decomposition of Wage Growth 59

3.7 Occupational Transitions 62

3.8 Convergence of Wages 63

3.8.1 Convergence of Residual Distributions 64

3.8.2 Convergence of Average Wages 65

3.9 Summary 69

4 Immigrants' Choice of Employment, Occupation, and Human Capital: Dynamic Stochastic Empirical Models 73

4.1 Introduction 73

4.2 The Data 76

4.2.1 (A) Females 78

4.2.2 (B) Males 84

4.3 Model Specifications 89

4.3.1 (A) Females 89

4.3.2 (B) Males 93

4.4 Solution and Estimation Methods 97

4.4.1 Solution 98

4.4.2 Estimation Method 100

4.4.3 Identification 101

4.5 Results 102

4.5.1 The Model's Fit 103

4.5.2 Estimated Parameters 112

4.6 Policy Analysis: Training 131

4.6.1 (A) Females 133

4.6.2 (B) Males 142

4.6.3 Summary 147

4.7 Verification of the Model: Out-of-Sample Predictions 150

4.7.1 Out-of-Sample Predictions 152

4.7.2 Aggregate Trends 153

4.7.3 High-Skilled Immigrants 155

4.7.4 Summary 155

4.8 The Value of Immigrating to Israel 157

4.9 Concluding Remarks 160

5 Job Search and Loss of Skills 163

5.1 Introduction 163

5.2 Data 165

5.3 The Model 168

5.4 Implementation of the Model 172

5.5 Results 176

5.5.1 Wages 176

5.5.2 Nonmonetary Returns 177

5.2.1 Job-Offer and Job-Termination Probabilities 177

5.2.2 Choice Probabilities and Types 179

5.6 The Model's Fit 182

5.7 Loss of Human Capital 188

5.8 Summary 195

Appendix: Supplementary Tables 198

6 The Joint Choice of Residential Location and Employment by Immigrants 205

6.1 Introduction 205

6.2 The Theoretical Model 207

6.2.1 The Housing Market 207

6.2.2 Production Technology 207

6.2.3 The Labor Market 208

6.2.4 Wages 208

6.2.5 Job-Offer Probabilities 209

6.2.6 Job Search 209

6.2.7 Utility 209

6.2.8 The Immigrant's Problem 210

6.2.9 The Model's Predictions 210

6.3 Model Specification 211

6.3.1 The Value Function 211

6.3.2 The Wage Function 212

6.3.3 Areas of Residence, Occupations, and Job Search 213

6.3.4 Job-Offer Probabilities 214

6.3.5 The Immigrant's Choice on Arrival in Israel 215

6.4 Estimation and Identification 217

6.5 Data 219

6.6 Results 222

6.6.1 Wage Parameters 222

6.6.2 Job-Offer Probability Parameters 223

6.6.3 Weight of the Monetary Component in Immigrants' Choices 226

6.6.4 The Probability of Search on Each Path 226

6.6.5 Nonemployment 227

6.6.6 Distribution of Immigrants by Area of Residence and Occupation 229

6.6.7 The Probability of Moving between Areas of Residence and Occupations 229

6.6.8 Utilization of the Immigrants' Human Capital in Israel 234

6.7 Comparison of the Model's Prediction to Other Data Sources 237

6.8 Conclusions 238

Appendix A Supplementary Model for Estimating the Wage Premium and Rate of Promotion 240

Appendix B Supplementary Tables 241

7 Immigrants from the FSU after Twenty Years in Israel: Evidence and Interpretation 245

7.1 Introduction 245

7.2 Employment, Occupations, and Wages 246

7.3 Social Indicators 260

7.3.1 Housing 260

7.3.2 Marriage Patterns 263

7.4 Return Migration and Out-Migration 267

7.5 Concluding Remarks 269.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262305211

0262305216

0262017679

9780262017671

OCLC:

835763399

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