Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a ‘natural experiment’ of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy macroeconomic model is used to analyse...