Immigrant adjustment in Israel: The determinants of literacy and fluency in Hebrew and the effects on earnings

This chapter is concerned with an econometric analysis of the determinants of Hebrew language proficiency among adult male immigrants in Israel and the effect of this proficiency on the labor market earnings of these immigrants. The analysis is based on the 1972 Census of Israel and parallels an analysis performed for the 1983 Census (Chiswick, 1998). It is not possible to perform a similar analysis for the 1995 Census of Israel as this census did not include any questions on Hebrew language proficiency.