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This dissertation studies the assimilation of immigrants into the labor markets of the United States ard Israel. I examine several aspects of immigrant assimilation, in particular: the earnings differertials that exist between immigrants and native-born workers with similar demographic and skill characteristics; the rate at vvhich those differentials diminish with time since migration; the factors that speed or slow the process of assimilation; the transferability of origin-country human capital; the effect of an immigrant's age at arrival on his labor market performance; the importance of language skills for earnings; and potential changes in the labor market performance of successive immigrant cohorts.

Chapter One studies immigrants in Israel. Using data from the 1983 Israeli Census, 1 measure the extent to which the education that immigrants accumulated in their countries of origin is transferable into earnings potential in lsrael …