Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market: A Multi-disciplinary Approach

Foreword; Moshe Semyonov Introduction; Sami Miaari and Nabil Khattab PART I: THE PERSISTENCE OF ETHNIC PENALTIES 1. On the Reserve Bench: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli Labour Market; Nabil Khattab and Sami Miaari 2. Combating Discrimination against Arab Palestinians in the Israeli Workplace: The Current Enforcement Failure and the Role of the Newly Established EEOC; Talya Steiner 3. The persistent Wage Gaps between Arabs and Jews in Israel, 1997-2009; Sami Miaari and Nabil Khattab PART II: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FEMALE EMPLOYMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 4. Ethnicity, Gender, and Exclusion: Which Occupations Are Open to Israeli Palestinian women?; Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay 5. Changing Earnings Composition in Israeli-Palestinian Households: The Emergence of the Dual-earner Family; Haya Stier 6. Beyond Local Culture and Politics: The New Consumerism Industry and Changing Labor Force Participation of Palestinian Women; Erez Marantz, Alexandra Kalev, and Noah Lewin-Epstein 7. The Welfare State as an Employer: An Unacknowledged Avenue of Opportunity for Palestinian Women in Israel; Michael Shalev and Amit Lazarus PART III: SEGREGATION MATTERS 8. Barriers for Development of Employment Fields in the Arab Localities and Their Implications; Rassem Khamaisi 9. Factors and Obstacles Impeding Economic Development within Palestinian Localities in Israel: The Case of the Food Industry; Khaled Abu-Asbah and Muhammad Abu-Nasrah 10. Social and Spatial Examination of Arabs' Employment in Israel Using a Single municipality Scale; Ilan Shdema