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Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number …

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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between …

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The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

"Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been …

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …

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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...

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Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...

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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case

Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case

BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement component, whereby schools receive budgetary...

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The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings

Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of suicide attacks and targeted killings in the Second Intifada. We find …

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