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Intermittent employment: Work histories of Israeli men and women, 1983-1995

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2009

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the … to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women's labor market …

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A field study of social learning

Fishman, Arthur; Gneezy, Uri - 2011

We present a field study of social learning. The setting is a pair of adjacent fast food restaurants serving very similar cuisine whose main clientele are the students at a nearby major university. We observed whether an uninformed customer's choice of restaurant depends on the relative queue...

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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?

Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - 2012

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....

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Shrinking goods and sticky prices: Theory and evidence

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - 2011

If producers have more information than consumers about goods' attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices remain sticky. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity (per...

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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008

prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis … educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …

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Wage mobility in Israel: The effect of sectoral concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2009

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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Earnings functions and the measurement of the determinants of wage dispersion: Extending Oaxaca's approach

Silber, Jacques - 2007

This paper extends the famous Blinder and Oaxaca (1973) discrimination in several directions. First, the wage difference breakdown is not limited to two groups. Second, a decomposition technique is proposed that allows analysis of the determinants of the overall wage dispersion. The authors'...

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Inequality of life chances and the measurement of social immobility

Silber, Jacques - 2007

which the lines correspond to the social category of parents and the columns to the income distribution of their children … fathers to the income class of the children. Both illustrations confirm the usefulness of the analytical tools described in …

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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction: An empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

The Goldstone Report is unique among United Nations reports in having been eventually repudiated by its principal author. The Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone...

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Job quality in segmented labor markets: The Israeli case

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

employed in a triangular mode of employment (employee-contractor-client). The latter involves precarious employment and is more …

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