Average education of new immigrants from the East European countries and the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel declined during the last ten years. I present a simple two-period model of migration with uncertainty about future conditions in both countries and estimate a reduced form, using data...

Informatives, klar gegliedertes Handbuch zum Dauerthema "Migration in Europa". Daten und Fakten werden für die 10 wichtigsten Migrationsländer Europas ausgewertet: Deutschland, Frankreich, Holland, England, Schweden, Österreich, Schweiz, Polen, Italien und Ungarn. Alle Kapitel zu den...

This paper employed a widely accepted theoretical concept, the 'theory of migrant networks' to look at the recent immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany. Consistent with network theory, the social background...