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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786466703321

Autore

Cohen-Goldner Sarit

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012

ISBN

0-262-30521-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WeissYoram

EcksteinZvi

Disciplina

331.12909569409049

Soggetti

Immigrants - Israel - Economic conditions

Foreign workers, Russian - Israel

Labor market - Israel

Israel Emigration and immigration Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Aggregate Macroeconomic Impact of a Large Inflow of Immigrants; 3 On the Wage Growth of Immigrants; 4 Immigrants' Choice of Employment, Occupation, and Human Capital: Dynamic Stochastic Empirical Models; 5 Job Search and Loss of Skills; 6 The Joint Choice of Residential Location and Employment by Immigrants; 7 Immigrants from the FSU after Twenty Years in Israel: Evidence and Interpretation; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.