{"id":49271,"date":"2018-03-22T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T08:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taubcenter.secure2.anova-host.com\/israel-is-one-country-that-essentially-has-two-economies\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T18:24:21","slug":"israel-is-one-country-that-essentially-has-two-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taubcenter.org.il\/en\/israel-is-one-country-that-essentially-has-two-economies\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel is one country that essentially has two economies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prof.
\nEarlier this month, the OECD put out its 2018 Economic Survey of Israel<\/a><\/span><\/em>, which included trends that are familiar to us at the Taub Center: data showing Israel\u2019s remarkable improvement in comparison to other OECD countries, on the one hand, and a number of indicators of growing inequalities and concerns in Israeli society on the other.<\/p>\n

This leads me to a question I am often asked: how can the Israel that is the \u201cstart-up nation\u201d \u2013 the country that has produced Waze, Mobileye, and Checkpoint and has a notably high number of patents per billion dollars of GDP \u2013 be the same Israel as the one where wages are low and prices are high, inequality is large and growing, and a disposable income poverty rate that is the highest in the OECD?<\/p>\n

The answer is that there are basically two Israeli economies that exist in parallel. A unique characteristic of the Israeli economy is the makeup of its exports, which largely rely on high tech companies. Israel\u2019s high-tech sector is indeed characterized by high productivity and high wages, but this sector makes up only about 9% of the Israeli workforce.<\/p>\n

Generally, we would expect this high-performing industry to have a positive effect on the entire economy as more workers flock to join it. However, high tech and other advanced technology companies have employees with very high skills, making it difficult for those with lower skills to move into these industries even though there is high demand for more workers.<\/p>\n

Because worker mobility between local and export industries is low, efficiency, productivity, and wages are not increasing in the bulk of Israel\u2019s economy, despite the success of high-tech in Israel.<\/p>\n

To read more\u00a0on Israel’s economy, please refer to A Macroeconomic Picture of the\u00a0Economy in 2017<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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