LABOR MOBILITY OF IMMIGRANTS: TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, LANGUAGE, AND OPPORTUNITIES*
分析前苏联男性移民到以色列后的劳动力流动和人力资本积累，发现本地培训、本地经验和希伯来语知识有很高的直接收入回报，而进口技能回报为零。
This article analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We estimate a dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue‐ and white‐collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered opportunities are affected by past choices. The estimated model accurately reproduces the patterns in the data. The estimated direct earning return to local training, local experience, and knowledge of Hebrew are very high, whereas imported skills have zero (conditional) return. The welfare gain from the impact of training on job offer probabilities is larger than its effect on wages.