Average education of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel declined during the 1990s. We suggest that this is because the returns to investment in Israeli human capital increase in the amount of imported human capital. Thus, the more educated invest more, and therefore have an...

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on:(1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

This paper investigates the underlying sources of the US entrepreneurial ecosystem's comparative advantage by assessing the benefits Israeli technology startups derive from migrating to the US. To address positive sorting into migration we adopt three complementary approaches, which include...