Analyses the nature of growth, economic policies and employment as well as its linkages in four Middle East and North …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …

's potentially diminishing effect on poverty. A considerable mismatch between skills and employment was found among Arab academics … Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52 …% with nearly two thirds in persistent poverty. Among Bedouins in villages unrecognized by the Israeli government it was …

distribution of education across birth cohorts and how these relate to changes in the probability of employment, the distribution …

-histories. Second, to analyze the impact of involuntary job separations on life courses. The study covers the whole range of employment … following: (i) mobility in employment status has increased along the twentieth century; (ii) it has become more similar between … separations; (iv) in general, involuntary job separations provoke employment status sequences which substantially differ from the …

-Jaffa area of Israel, offers this op-ed piece in which she asserts that poverty, and not the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, is the …

This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor … that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey with Israeli administrative data on permits for employment in … Israel. The study quantifies the increase in Palestinian employment in the Israeli and Palestinian economies and the decrease …

hypothesis, but only to a certain degree. For men, we find a positive effect of employment stability, and a positive effect of … earnings, which increase over time. For women, the effect of the salary has an inverse U shape, and employment stability has … positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest …

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 …