ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some findings of national census and survey data on absorption of older immigrants in employment in Israel in the past and considers some implications for absorption of the new wave of older immigrants in employment. The Israel CBS Survey on Absorption of Immigrants also showed the occupational distributions of Eastern European immigrants in Israel one year and three years after arrival in 1972–1975 and in 1978–1980. The dramatic pace and magnitude of Jewish emigration from the former USSR to Israel is matched by the astonishing proportions of both men and women who had been employed abroad and the even more astonishing concentration of immigrants in scientific, academic, and professional occupations abroad. Compounding a relative academic disadvantage when compared to younger immigrants, those immigrating at older ages have consistently been much less successful in learning and using the Hebrew language.
