This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the demographic transition.

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are : (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...

The Israeli economy business cycle properties are different from those of most OECD countries in four main dimensions. Aggregate consumption is twenty percent more volatile than output, the trade balance is much more volatile than output and is procyclical, investment is almost five times more...

This paper analyzes the recent mass immigration from the USSR to Israel. We examine three interrelated features of the assimilation process; the rise in the productive capacity of immigrants as they gradually adapt to the Israeli labor market, the rising rewards that immigrants receive for their...