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Author:   Nabil Khattab ,  Sami Miaari ,  Haya Stier
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.679kg
ISBN:  

9781137557193

ISBN 10:   1137557192
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   05 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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""This edited volume provides an interesting and novel depiction of current socioeconomic inequality features, mechanisms and dynamics in Israeli society. The editors have very carefully and adequately tailored the various chapters to cover some of the most pressing issues in Israeli society as well as emerging issues in the study of socioeconomic inequality, more generally."" - Meir Yaish, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Israel

This edited volume provides an interesting and novel depiction of current socioeconomic inequality features, mechanisms and dynamics in Israeli society. The editors have very carefully and adequately tailored the various chapters to cover some of the most pressing issues in Israeli society as well as emerging issues in the study of socioeconomic inequality, more generally. - Meir Yaish, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Israel

This edited volume provides an interesting and novel depiction of current socioeconomic inequality features, mechanisms and dynamics in Israeli society. The editors have very carefully and adequately tailored the various chapters to cover some of the most pressing issues in Israeli society as well as emerging issues in the study of socioeconomic inequality, more generally. - Meir Yaish, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Israel Prof. Meir Yaish University of Haifa, Israel myaish@univ.haifa.ac.il This edited volume provides an interesting and novel depiction of current socioeconomic inequality features, mechanisms and dynamics in Israeli society. The editors - a respected multidisciplinary scholars - have very carefully and adequately tailored the various chapters to cover some of the most pressing issues in Israeli society (e.g., the rise in inequality and the 2011 protest), emerging issues in the study of socioeconomic inequality (e.g., household debt in late life), and country specific issues (e.g., ethnic inequality). The collection of scholars recruited to this project speaks to both the quality of this edited volume and the editors. Readers of this volume will have the opportunity to read the most up-to-date state-of-the-art analysis on inequality in Israeli society. Nevertheless, the topics covered in this volume will be very relevant and appealing to any student of social stratification and inequality. More importantly, however, this volume is not a recycle bin of outdated research, but is based on current original research. The main competitors of this volume are edited volumes on Israeli society - mainly published by Tranaction Publishers in the series of the Israeli sociological association. However, the material in this series was based on recycled material and not original research, and the last relevant volume in this series was published a decade ago. This should make the current volume very attractive to both students of Israeli society (worldwide) and general scholars of inequality in divided societies. Also professional policy makers should benefit from this volume. I therefore welcome this important volume, highly appreciate its scholarship, and strongly support its publication with Palgrave Macmillan.

Author Information

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.

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