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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

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...

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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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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gaston - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking skills and Hebrew literacy are shown to increase with...

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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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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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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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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 evidence that the targeted killings of Palestinian leaders by Israel reduce realized Palestinian violence. We find, however, that intended Palestinian violence is increasing at low...

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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...

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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

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