immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we …In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most … immigration inflow: the adoption of global changes in production technology, and national changes in the mix of traded goods …

There is a long-standing debate among academics about the effect of immigration on native internal migration decisions …. If immigrants displace natives this may indicate a direct cost of immigration in the form of decreased employment … underestimate the consequences of immigration. The widespread use of such area studies for the US and other countries makes it …

Immigration is often viewed as a proximate cause of the rising wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers … involved. This paper offers an overview and synthesis of existing knowledge on the relationship between immigration and … in the tails of the skill distribution and higher residual inequality among immigrants than natives. Even so, immigration …

native-born workers specialize in performing complementary tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task … cleaning, cooking, and building. Immigration causes natives -- who have a better understanding of local networks, rules …. Simulations show that this increased specialization mitigated negative wage consequences of immigration for less-educated native …