Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? Evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999

Table 3 Number of establishments in the manufacturing surveys

	Total number of establishments	Number of establishments in the sample in 1990	Number of establishments in the sample in 1995
1990	2085	2085	822
1991	2151	1936	857
1992	2158	1826	878
1993	2254	1754	911
1994	2316	1666	957
1995	2041	822	2041
1996	1987	799	1879
1997	1950	768	1761
1998	1903	739	1652
1999	1865	713	1551
Total number of firms in the sample:		4378
Firms continuously in the sample, 1990-1999		698

Note: Author’s calculations from the 1990-1999 Manufacturing Surveys. Boldface entries represent the number of firms in the first year of each sample redesign.