Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279087 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16389
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
assimilation
firm ladder
job mobility
firms
immigrants
JEL: 
J31
J61
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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