The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market

By Rachel M. Friedberg. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Turkey (2016, background): “In line with the tradition of treating refugee flows as exogenous immigration shocks [see, e.g., (Card 1990), (Friedberg 2001), (Foged and ∗ Tumen: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and IZA, Istiklal Cad.”
The rise of offshoring: it's not wine for cloth anymore (2006, background): “25The evidence seems to suggest that changes in the relative factor supply have no substantial impact on wages, as Card (1990, 2005), Hunt (1992), and Friedberg (2001), among others, have argued.”
Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy? (2008, background): “For instance Friedberg (2001), among others, finds a significant positive relationship between source and destination country sector employment for Russian immigrants to Israel in the nineties.”
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF A REFUGEE WAVE: APPLYING THE SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHOD TO THE MARIEL BOATLIFT (2015, background): “Examples include Hunt (1992), Carrington and De Lima (1994), Friedberg (2001) and Borjas and Monras (2016) among others.”
Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment (2017, background): “See, e.g., Card (1990), Hunt (1992), Carrington and Lima (1996), Friedberg (2001), Glitz (2012), Prantl and Spitz-Oener (2014) and Monras (2015a).”
Winners and Losers among a Refugee-Hosting Population (2014, background): “Since then, authors such as Kuhlman (2002), Whitaker (1999), Landau (2004) and several papers from the UNHCR ́ s Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit have provided some evidence of this unequal impact. Unfortunately, the state of knowledge is not much more advanced than the “scattered evidence” on wh”
Do Immigrants Cause Crime (2012, background): “Supply-push factors are all events in origin countries that increase the propensity to emigrate; examples include economic crises, political turmoil, wars and natural disasters (Card, 1990; Friedberg, 2001; Angrist and Kugler, 2003; Munshi, 2003; Saiz, 2007).”
The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration (2012, background): “For example, in the four years after the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh partition 18 million individuals are estimated to have migrated out of India [Bharadwaj et al. 2008]; Russian migrants into Israel corresponded to around a 12% population increase between 1990-4 [Friedberg 2001].”
Migration and Wage‐setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration* (2011, background): “Most existing studies relate the (un-)employment rate of natives or foreigners to the immigrant share and use the variance of the immigrant share across areas or industries for the identification of the employment impact (Angrist and Kugler, 2003; Borjas, Freemann, and Katz, 1997; Card, 2001; Dustma”
HOW TO MEASURE LABOUR MARKET EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION: A REVIEW (2008, background): “Friedberg (2001) exploits the variation in immigration across occupations to study the impact of this mass migration on the Israeli labour market.”
Emigration and Wages in Source Countries: Evidence from Mexico (2006, methodology): “Friedberg (2001) also uses an individual level wage regression to estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives.”
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms (2014, neutral): “[26] Friedberg, Rachel, "The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market", Quarterly Journal of Economics 116:4 (2001), 1373-1408.”
Multilateral Resistance to Migration (2013, neutral): “This effect only turns significant when multilateral resistance to migration is accounted for: establishing a visa waiver for a country multiplies its emigration rate to Spain by a factor 7These figures can only be compared with Israel in the 1990s, when “immigration increased Israel’s population by”
Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution? (2009, background): “Friedberg (2001) finds no negative effects of Russian immigration on Israeli wages or employment.”
Immigration, Search, and Loss of Skill (2003, positive): “…(1999) describe the process of occupational upgrading among immigrants to Canada. without much effect on the employment and wages of natives (see Friedberg 2001; Eckstein and Weiss 2002), because of inflows of capital and increased exports.8 In some professions, such as medicine, collective…”