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Socioeconomic Inequality in Israel

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Nabil Khattab, Sami Miaari, Haya Stier (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55719-3 (ISBN)

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This volume addresses different aspects and areas of inequality in Israel, a country characterized by high levels of economic inequality, poverty, and social diversity. The book expands on the mechanisms that produce and maintain inequality, and the role of state policies in influencing those mechanisms.

Nabil Khattab is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. His latest publications include the co-edited volume Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market: A Multi-disciplinary Approach and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Sociology, The Social Science Journal, and the British Educational Research Journal. Sami Miaari is Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and Research Fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. His research focuses on labor economics, economic causes, and consequences of conflict, including the economic costs of political instability and the relationship between economic shocks and conflict. His work on these issues has appeared in mainstream journals of economics such as the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of Conflict Resolution. Haya Stier is Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She has served as Chair of the Labor Studies Department, President of the Research Committee on Social Stratification, and the editor of Israeli Sociology. Her works on work-family issuesand inequality have appeared in leading sociological journals.

Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction; Nabil Khattab, Sami Miaari, and Haya Stier
PART I: GENERAL INEQUALITY
1. The Correlates of Household Debt in Late-Life; Noah Lewin-Epstein and Or Raviv
2. Household Inequality and the Contribution of Spousal Correlations; Pnina O. Plaut and Steven Plaut
3. Religious Schooling, Secular Schooling, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: An Application of Regression-Based Inequality Decompositions; Ayal Kimhi and Moran Sandel
PART II: INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION
4. First-Generation College Students in an Expanded and Diversified Higher Education System: The Case of Israel; Hanna Ayalon and Oded Mcdossi
5. Ethno/religious hierarchy in educational achievement and socioeconomic status in Israel: An historical perspective; Dov Friedlander, Barbara S. Okun and Calvin Goldscheider
6. Overeducation and Wage Penalties amongst Immigrants, Native Minorities and Majority Ethnic groups; Nabil Khattab and Amit Lazarus
PART III: GENDER INEQUALITY
7. The 'Gender Revolution' in Israel: Progress and Stagnation; Hadas Mandel and Debora P. Birgier
8. Gender earnings gaps in ethnic and religious groups in Israel; Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay
PART IV: ETHNIC INEQUALITY
9. Geographical considerations in Arabs' integration into the Israeli labour market; Izhak Schnell and Ilan Shdema
10. Horizontal inequality in Israel's welfare state: do Arabs receive fewer and lower cash benefits?; MichaelShalev and Amit Lazarus
Notes on contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 276 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-137-55719-2 / 1137557192
ISBN-13	978-1-137-55719-3 / 9781137557193
Zustand	Neuware