Immigrant Employment and Occupational Mobility in a Context of Mass Migration. Soviet Immigrants in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2234646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Weinberg, Nevin N Weinberg (0000-0001-9194-2084, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-188 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/esr/17.2.169 |
| OpenAlex | W2083280452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 18 |
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the employment and occupational mobility patterns of Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel. I compare results for Soviet immigrants who arrived in the moderately sized migration wave of the 1970s to those who arrived in the midst of the enormous wave of the late 1980s and 1990s, thus casting light on the implications of mass migration for the reproduction of stratification systems. The findings show that the Israeli labour market is far more saturated in the 1990s than it was in the 1970s, and this occupational crowding results in high rates of unemployment among immigrants. Unemployment rates are disproportionately high for male immigrants originating in high‐status occupations, while females experience high unemployment regardless of occupational origin. For immigrants who are employed in Israel, there is much downward occupational mobility induced by disjunctures between occupational opportunities and occupational inputs. Nevertheless, despite limited opportunities, the few jobs that are available are often filled by immigrants who held those positions in Russia.
Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Judaism · Labour economics · Mass migration · Occupational mobility · Occupational prestige · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Unemployment · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |