Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62569 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6796
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and Ethiopian immigrants. Israeli Arabs were considered to be the least successful ethnic group in the Israeli labor market until they were displaced by the Ethiopian immigrants. The results of our analysis show that an ethnic group at the bottom of the wage ladder can be replaced by another.
Subjects: 
wage differences
immigrants
JEL: 
J15
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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