, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews … of Eastern origin, Israeli Arabs and females. The results are mixed, differing from group to group, thus justifying our …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of most contemporary American Jews. Starting in operative, craft and laborer jobs in small scale manufacturing or in … compared to 20 percent of white non-Jewish men were in professional occupations. Among working women in 2000, 51 percent of the …

This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …

This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …

We examine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and voting patterns among Arabs in Israel. We … proportion of Israeli Arabs voting for Jewish-majority parties and a rise in their electoral support for Arab Parties. We also … find that the decrease in voter turnout among Arabs following the political effects of the Second Intifada may have been …

immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and … Ethiopian immigrants. Israeli Arabs were considered to be the least successful ethnic group in the Israeli labor market until …

Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …

similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and … non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the … National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and the 1990 and 2000 Censuses of Population. Among both men and women …