Doctoral Dissertation Research: Labor Market Attainment in the Context of Mass Migration: The Case of Soviet JewishImmigrants in Israel

在移民劳动成就的传统研究中，研究人员认为，主要问题是移民群体如何适应东道国社会，而东道国社会在很大程度上保持不变。但是，当移民群体相对于东道国人口规模较大时，可以想象，东道国的社会结构将发生变化，从而影响随后将移民纳入劳动力市场的地位。本论文的目的将是确定在大规模移民流下，融入稳定劳动力市场的传统模型是否仍然有效。在这方面，在以色列的苏联犹太移民的情况特别具有启发性，因为苏联移民流的规模随着时间的推移变化很大，最近的一波达到了极其庞大和前所未有的比例。这些分析的数据将来自以色列中央统计局管理的三项调查。这些调查包括本地出生的以色列人和移民，包含详细的纵向信息，涵盖移民（移民）之前到以色列最初几年的时期。回归模型和对数线性模型将用于解决上述问题。这些分析的结果将提供有价值的知识，了解移民流规模的变化如何影响移民进入现有劳动力市场职位的分布，以及劳动力市场本身的整体形态。

In conventional studies of immigrant labor attainment, researchers assume that the main question of interest is how an immigrant group adjusts to the host society, while that society remains largely unchanged. But when an immigrant group is large relative to the size of the host population, it is conceivable that the social structure of the host country will change in ways that affect the subsequent incorporation of immigrants into labor market positions. The purpose of this dissertation will be to determine whether conventional models of assimilation into a stable labor market still obtain under large migration streams. The case of Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel is especially instructive in this regard because the size of the Soviet migration stream has varied greatly over time, with the most recent wave reaching extremely large and unprecedented proportions. The data for these analyses will come from three surveys administered by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. These surveys, which include native-born Israelis as well as immigrants, contain detailed longitudinal information covering the period prior to migration (for immigrants) through the first few years in Israel. Regression models and log-linear models will be used to address the issues posed above. Results of these analyses will provide valuable knowledge concerning how variation in the size of an immigration stream affects both the distribution of immigrants into available labor market positions, as well as the overall shape of the labor market itself.