The melting pot policy intends to create a new generation of migrants that will assimilate with the native population. The instruments used by the policy makers are fiscal and educational policies, which are intended to eliminate disparities between the migrants and the native population. The...

The Tal Law, which went into effect in 2003, formalized the deferral of military service for yeshiva students who study Torah fulltime. The law introduced a number of new rules, some of which were aimed at encouraging the employment of ultra-Orthodox men by making it more worthwhile for them to...

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor market consequences of that proficiency, as...

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is the migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. This setting presents unique institutional features - including the lack of barriers posed by migration...