Erklärung der Schwankungen im privaten Verbrauch mit Hilfe einer dynamischen Konsumfunktion. Beziehung zwischen privatem Verbrauch und verfügbarem Einkommen. Abweichung des tatsächlichen vom optimalen Verbrauch. Ungleichgewichte bei der Kassenhaltung. Beeinflussung des Verbrauchs durch die...

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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 analyze this...

This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives? probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and experience....