24.01.2012                      29.Tewet. 5772                       Jom Kippur Katan

Studie:

Israeli-born college graduates earn twice as much as their Ethiopian counterparts

Ethiopian immigrant men who graduated from university earn an average of NIS 9,411 per month, as opposed to native-born Israelis who earn NIS 17,252 for a 48-hour work week.

Ethiopian immigrants with college degrees earn only half as much as native-born Israelis with similar degrees, even when the immigrants have been living here for 20 years or more, according to a new report prepared by a research institute at the request of the Immigrant Absorption Ministry.
There are currently some 2,000 Ethiopian immigrants with post-secondary education who have lived in Israel for at least 20 years. The study, conducted by the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, compared a representative sample of 920 of them with existing data on some 580,000 native Israeli Jews with degrees….