Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - 2005
We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data … reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have … experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and 1995. By contrast, IAH is corroborated by the synthetic cohort methodology …