Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999

During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption and integration into the workforce of highly skilled immigrants from the former Soviet Union...

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Year of publication:	2008-06-01
Authors:	Paserman, Daniele
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Produktivität \| Einwanderung

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Extent:	162816 bytes 44 p. application/pdf
Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3572 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D24 - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity ; F22 - International Migration ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Personnel administration. Human resources management. General ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Israel
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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