The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990-2019

Jaime Arellano-Bover, Shmuel San

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 regulations - and rich data availability. Differential sorting across firms and differential pay-setting within firms both explain important shares of immigrant-native wage gap levels and dynamics. Immigrants are persistently more mobile than natives and faster at climbing the firm ladder. We uncover a novel, sizable job utility immigrant-native gap when incorporating non-wage amenities into the analysis.

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Year of publication:	August 2023
Authors:	Arellano-Bover, Jaime ; San, Shmuel
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Subject:	immigrants \| firms \| job mobility \| firm ladder \| assimilation \| Israel \| Arbeitsmobilität \| Labour mobility \| Soziale Integration \| Social integration \| Juden \| Jews \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Einwanderung \| Immigration \| Sowjetunion \| USSR