ABSTRACT
Modes of labor market incorporation, occupational change, and status cost can be related to country of origin, human capital resources individual level demographic characteristics and the occupational labor market. The literature on international migration contends that immigrants often experience considerable hardships in finding suitable and rewarding employment. That is, immigrants are likely to incur an occupational "cost" as a result of migration. More specifically, sociologists estimate "costs" in term of employment status and occupational status that immigrants had experienced shortly after arrival to Israel, and examine the extent to which such "costs" are affected by characteristics of country of origin, occupational labor markets, and human capital resources. Immigrants' insertion in the labor market and their socio-economic outcomes are affected by several factors. Thus the occupational labor market in which the immigrant worker had gained experience may well affect the size of the "cost" a worker has to pay in the new country.
