M Semyonov
Biographic Data
| ID | 2339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Semyonov |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Semyonov |
| SIGNATURE | SEMYONOV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8794-6322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 107 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2822 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 107 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 27 |
Ethnic residential segregation and residents’ perceptions of safety
The paper focuses on the differential impact of ethnicity and the ethnic composition of community on residents’ perceptions of safety among Jews (majority population) and Arabs (ethnic minority) in Israel. Data for the analysis were obtained from a national representative sample of 908 Jews and Arabs residing in 71 urban localities. The localities were divided into two major types: ethnically homogeneous and ethnically heterogeneous (mixed) commu…
Who are the immigrants that Israeli Jews prefer? The interplay between reasons for migration, religion, and religiosity
This study focuses on the impact of three attributes of migrants – their reasons for migration, religion, and level of religiosity – on public support for allowing migrants to come and live in Israel. We rely on a factorial survey that was conducted in a representative sample of the Israeli Jewish population analyzing the assessments of 600 respondents of various vignettes ( N = 3,595) of hypothetical migrants about admitting them to the country.…
Endorsement of wage discrimination against immigrants
Gendered globalization
Despite the steady increase in women’s labor force participation, there are still substantial cross-country variations in women’s rates of gainful employment and gender-linked occupational inequality. Utilizing micro-data for 41 countries (circa 2013) obtained from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS, 2023), we examine the extent to which globalization and each of its three components – economic, social, and political – affect gender-based economic …
The impact of immigrants' characteristics on anti-immigrant sentiment among the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel
In the present research ‘factorial survey experiment’ method is applied to examine and compare the differential impact of immigrants’ characteristics on anti-immigrant sentiment among the majority and minority populations in Israel. Potential immigrants were described by six characteristics (gender, continent of birth, education, religion, level of religiosity and reason for migration) in a fractionalised sample of 252 vignettes (organised in 42 …
Economic integration of first‐ and second‐generation immigrants in the Swiss labour market
The paper focuses on economic disadvantage (loss) or economic advantage (gain) among first‐ and second‐generation immigrants in Switzerland in comparison to the Swiss majority group. We distinguish between economic and noneconomic (political, family reunion, and educational pursuit) immigrants. Utilising data from the 2007 Swiss Health Survey, we found that economic immigrant males are able to attain higher income than the comparable majority gro…
The gender-race intersection and the ‘sheltering-effect’ of public-sector employment
Seeking to understand the role played by labor market structure in affecting economic inequality, we examine the extent to which the public sector, as compared to the private sector, differentially employs and rewards women, Blacks and subgroups classified by race and gender (e.g., Black women, Black men). Analyzing data from the American Community Survey (2014–2015), we find that public-sector employment is more attractive for Blacks than for wo…
Declining and splitting
The Wealth Gap between Ageing Immigrants and Native-Born in Ten European Countries
Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe from 10 European countries, this study contributes to the research on immigrants' economic incorporation by focusing on the nativity wealth gaps in mid and late life. Three origin groups of immigrants were distinguished: non-European, post-communist, and West, Central, and South European countries. We estimated the size of the wealth gap between each immigrant population and na…
Perceptions and misperceptions
Anastasia Gorodzeiskya* & Moshe Semyonovaa Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Direct and indirect predictors of opposition to immigration in Europe
The current study examines the following questions: (1) the extent to which individual basic human values are linked with attitudes towards immigration; (2) whether symbolic threat by immigration mediates this relation; and (3) whether cultural values moderate the relations between individual values, threat, and attitudes towards immigration. The empirical analysis relies on the 2014/2015 data from the immigration module of the European Social Su…
Unwelcome Immigrants
The present paper advances the proposition that level of opposition to immigration (i.e., endorsement of closure or exclusion) and its sources are not uniform and vary across immigrant groups. To test this proposition we utilize data from the 2014 European Social Survey for 20 countries and apply the analysis to the following groups: immigrants of same race/ethnic group as a majority population, immigrants of different race/ethnic group, Muslim, …
In Search of the Healthy Immigrant Effect in Four West European Countries
The present research examines whether the ‘healthy immigrant effect’ thesis observed in the American context prevails also in the West European context. According to this thesis, immigrants are likely to be healthier than comparable nativeborn. Data for the analysis are obtained from the Generations and Gender Survey for the following countries: Austria, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Ordered logit regression models are estimated to compar…
The Arab Minority in Israel's Economy
The Arab Minority in Israel's Economy considers the Arab population as an integral, albeit disadvantaged, part of Israeli society. Using data from a thirty-year period, the book looks at Arab participation in the economy, especially in the labor market, showing how significant socioeconomic inequality persists despite a fundamental tenet of Israel's declaration of independence asserting equality of political and social rights of all its citizens.…
Race and the Accumulation of Wealth
Using data from the 1989–2009 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this research examines racial differences in wealth accumulation over the life course. We ask: (1) How have racial differences in wealth changed over time? (2) Do racial wealth gaps change over the life course? (3) Are racial gaps in net worth expanding, contracting, or staying the same over time and over the life course? and (4) Do these patterns differ by cohort? The analysis is info…
Development and Gender-Linked Economic Inequality in the Era of Globalization
This paper focuses on the relations between development and gender disparities in labor market outcomes in the era of globalization. Within a cross-national comparative framework, the article examines the relations between development and globalization and three aspects of gender-linked disparities (women's labor force participation, gender occupational differentiation, and gender pay gap) at two time points: 1990 and 2015. The data reveal patter…
Competitive threat and temporal change in anti-immigrant sentiment
On race, ethnicity and on the economic cost of immigration
The dynamic relations between economic conditions and anti-immigrant sentiment
Theories on intergroup relations suggest that negative attitudes toward immigrants tend to rise when economic conditions deteriorate. However, these arguments were mostly tested during times of economic prosperity in Europe. We put this theoretical expectation to test by analyzing two rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS) with data from 14 West European immigration countries before (2006) and after (2010) the peak of the European economic cr…
Attitudes toward immigrants in European societies
Household debt in midlife and old age
This article examines the prevalence of household debt in middle and old age, in the context of rising consumption, the weakening welfare safety net, and the ‘democratization’ of credit. We aim to address theoretical propositions concerning household correlates of mortgage and financial debt, as well as the relationship between the two types of debt. We utilize data gathered on populations, aged 50 years and older, in 15 countries that participat…
Going Back in Time? Gender Differences in Trends and Sources of the Racial Pay Gap, 1970 to 2010
Using IPUMS data for five decennial years between 1970 and 2010, we delineate and compare the trends and sources of the racial pay gap among men and women in the U.S. labor force. Decomposition of the pay gap into components underscores the significance of the intersection between gender and race; we find meaningful gender differences in the composition of the gap and in the gross and the net earnings gaps-both are much larger among men than amon…
Immigration and the cost of ethnic subordination
This study focuses on earnings disadvantages experienced by three ethnic groups of Jewish immigrants in Israel. Data were obtained from the 2011 Income Survey gathered by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. The findings reveal that when compared to Israeli-born, all ethnic groups are disadvantaged in earnings attainment in the first generation. The earnings disadvantages of immigrants as compared to Israeli-born decrease with the passage of …
Geo‐cultural Origin and Economic Incorporation of High‐skilled Immigrants in Israel
The present study focuses on differential modes of economic incorporation and economic success of highly skilled immigrants in Israel. Data were obtained from the 2009–2011 Labor Force and Income Surveys. The analysis pertains to recent immigrants aged 25–64 years who attained academic education prior to migration. Three major geo‐cultural groups of immigrants are compared with Israeli‐born. The groups are as follows: Europe and the Americas, the…
Not only Competitive Threat but also Racial Prejudice
The article examines the role of prejudice toward racial and ethnic minorities in shaping attitudes toward immigrants across 19 European countries. Previous studies established that fear of competition (i.e., competitive threat) is likely to increase negative attitudes toward immigrants. Using data from the 2010 European Social Survey, we find that not only competitive threat but also racial prejudice toward non-European/non-White minority popula…
The Rise of Anti-foreigner Sentiment in European Societies, 1988-2000
The study examines change over time in sentiments toward out-group populations in European societies. For this purpose data were compiled from four waves of the Eurobarometer surveys for 12 countries that provided detailed and comparable information on attitudes toward foreigners between 1988 and 2000. A series of multilevel hierarchical linear models were estimated to examine change in the effects of individual- and country-level sources of thre…
Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps
This study uncovers an unexpected effect of family-friendly policies on women's economic attainments. Using hierarchical linear models, the analysis combines individual-level data (obtained from the Luxembourg Income Study) with country-level data (obtained from secondary sources) to evaluate the effects of family policies on gender earnings inequality across 20 advanced societies. The analysis shows that gender earnings disparities are less pron…
Foreigners' Impact on European Societies
The research examines the extent to which attitudes toward foreigners vary across European countries. Using data from the European Social Survey for 21 countries the analysis reveals that foreigners' impact on society is viewed in most countries in negative rather in positive terms. The negative views are most pronounced with regard to foreigners' impact on crime and least pronounced with regard to foreigners' impact on culture. Multi-level regre…
A Welfare State Paradox
This study explores the role played by the welfare state in affecting women’s labor force participation and occupational achievement. Using data from 22 industrialized countries, the authors examine the consequences of state interventions for both women’s employ-ment patterns and gender inequality in occupational attainment. The findings reveal a twofold effect: developed welfare states fa-cilitate women’s access into the labor force but not into…
Population size, perceived threat, and exclusion
Terms of exclusion
The paper contends that exclusionary views towards out-group populations are formed along two dimensions: exclusion from the country and exclusion from equal rights. Data obtained from the European Social Survey (for twenty-one countries) reveal that objection to the admission of foreigners to the country is more pronounced than objection to the allocation of ‘equal rights’. The data further suggest that objection to admission can be directed eit…
Not only Competitive Threat but also Racial Prejudice
The article examines the role of prejudice toward racial and ethnic minorities in shaping attitudes toward immigrants across 19 European countries. Previous studies established that fear of competition (i.e., competitive threat) is likely to increase negative attitudes toward immigrants. Using data from the 2010 European Social Survey, we find that not only competitive threat but also racial prejudice toward non-European/non-White minority popula…
Perceived threat and exclusionary attitudes towards foreign workers in Israel
The present article focuses on determinants of attitudes towards granting social rights to overseas labour migrants in Israeli society. The analysis is based on a national representative sample of the adult population in Israel. The findings reveal that a substantial number of respondents (both Jews and Arabs) oppose granting equal social rights (i.e. education, welfare, health, housing) to foreign workers. These attitudes can partially be explai…
Ethnic Residential Segregation, Social Contacts, and Anti-Minority Attitudes in European Societies
Ethnic residential segregation has long been viewed as a major structural mechanism through which ethnic and racial minorities are denied equal access to opportunities, rewards, and amenities. Residential segregation also decreases opportunities for establishment and development of social ties and contacts between members of ethnic minorities and members of the majority population. This article examines the complex inter-relations between ethnic …
The dynamic relations between economic conditions and anti-immigrant sentiment
Theories on intergroup relations suggest that negative attitudes toward immigrants tend to rise when economic conditions deteriorate. However, these arguments were mostly tested during times of economic prosperity in Europe. We put this theoretical expectation to test by analyzing two rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS) with data from 14 West European immigration countries before (2006) and after (2010) the peak of the European economic cr…
Going Back in Time? Gender Differences in Trends and Sources of the Racial Pay Gap, 1970 to 2010
Using IPUMS data for five decennial years between 1970 and 2010, we delineate and compare the trends and sources of the racial pay gap among men and women in the U.S. labor force. Decomposition of the pay gap into components underscores the significance of the intersection between gender and race; we find meaningful gender differences in the composition of the gap and in the gross and the net earnings gaps-both are much larger among men than amon…
Gaps and Glissandos
Intergenerational mobility has been seen as influenced by both level of economic development and political democracy. Here, with a sample of 24 countries, the first of these relationships is assessed. The observed effect of economic development (GNP/capita) on mobility we conclude to be a spurious consequence of the shape of the stratification system, indicated here by the shape of both reward distributions and occupational distributions. Some di…
Bi-Ethnic Labor Markets, Mono-Ethnic Labor Markets, and Socioeconomic Inequality
The research examines the role of local opportunity structure in the determination of social and economic outcomes by focusing on the impact of local labor market segregation on socioeconomic inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Analysis of the 1983 Israeli Census reveals that the rules by which minority members achieve socioeconomic status vary considerably across bi-ethnic and mono-ethnic labor markets. Arabs working in Jewish communiti…
Gender Pay Gap and Employment Sector
Using data from the IPUMS-USA, the present research focuses on trends in the gender earnings gap in the United States between 1970 and 2010. The major goal of this article is to understand the sources of the convergence in men’s and women’s earnings in the public and private sectors as well as the stagnation of this trend in the new millennium. For this purpose, we delineate temporal changes in the role played by major sources of the gap. Several…
Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigration
This article examines whether recent immigrant women in the Israeli labor market are at a 'double disadvantage'-first as immigrants and second as women-and whether and to what extent such disadvantages differ across ethnic and geocultural groups. Data were obtained from the last available population census (1983). The analysis focuses on gender differences in employment opportunities among men and women who immigrated to Israel between 1979 and 1…
Best of Times, Worst of Times, and Occupational Mobility
This article compares the incorporation of two groups of immigrants from the former Soviet Union into the Israeli labour market. The first group arrived in Israel in 1979 and the second group arrived in 1990. The first period was characterized by a small number of immigrants (best of times), and the second period was characterized by mass migration (worst of times). Using data sets assembled by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, labour forc…
Sheltered Labor Markets, Public Sector Employment, and Socioeconomic Returns to Education of Arabs in Israel
This study expands the theoretical discussion of ethnic economies by focusing on public sector employment and the role the state plays in affecting the socioeconomic fortunes of ethnic minorities. The authors argue that under certain circumstances public sector employment helps ethnic minorities attain higher socioeconomic rewards. The findings of the study indicate that Arab employees in Israel receive higher returns to education in the ethnic l…
Perceptions and misperceptions
Anastasia Gorodzeiskya* & Moshe Semyonovaa Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Neighborhood Ethnic Composition and Resident Perceptions of Safety in European Countries
Employing data from the 2002 European Social Survey for 21 national representative samples, we provide the first cross-national analysis of the relations between ethnic composition of neighborhood and perception of neighborhood safety in the European context. The data reveal considerable variation both across countries and across individuals in perceived safety. Bi-level regression analysis shows that perceived safety tends to be lower in countri…
Direct and indirect predictors of opposition to immigration in Europe
The current study examines the following questions: (1) the extent to which individual basic human values are linked with attitudes towards immigration; (2) whether symbolic threat by immigration mediates this relation; and (3) whether cultural values moderate the relations between individual values, threat, and attitudes towards immigration. The empirical analysis relies on the 2014/2015 data from the immigration module of the European Social Su…
The Impact of Parental Transfers on Living Standards of Married Children
Attitudes toward immigrants in European societies
Ethnic Group Mobility in the Israeli Labor Market
In the present study we address the issue of ethnic-group occupational mobility. Utilizing data on the Israeli labor force for the years 1969 and 1982 we examine changes in the occupational distribution of four distinct groups: Jews of European/American origin, Jews of AsianlAfrican origin, Israeli Arabs, and non-citizen Arabs from the West Bank and the Gaza District. Longlinear analysis is employed to distinguish between structural and compositi…
Competitive threat and temporal change in anti-immigrant sentiment
Where wealth matters more for health
Suburban Change and Persistence
A method for the quantitative analysis of change is developed, and demonstrated by a study of changes in the socioeconomic status (SES) characteristics of 89 Long Island suburban communities 1960-1970. Three theoretical models in the literature on suburban change are shown to be related to statistical measures of change of the mean, change of dispersion and positional change. Because of failure to recognize that there are three mathematically ind…
Gaps and Glissandos
Intergenerational mobility has been seen as influenced by both level of economic development and political democracy. Here, with a sample of 24 countries, the first of these relationships is assessed. The observed effect of economic development (GNP/capita) on mobility we conclude to be a spurious consequence of the shape of the stratification system, indicated here by the shape of both reward distributions and occupational distributions. Some di…
Ethnic Inequality in Israeli Schools and Sports
Ethnic inequality in educational achievement between students of European-American ("Ashkenazi") and Asian-African ("Oriental") origin in Israel has been generally attributed to the lower SES and cultural disadvantage of Oriental Jews. More recent research indicates that Israeli teachers tend to generalize the characteristics of ethnic origin so that Orientals are considered less capable intellectually and motivationally to such an extent that th…
Growth and Succession in Suburban Communities
Previous studies of the growth of metropolitan communities, drawing primarily on ecological theory as represented by Burgess' concentric zone model of the metropolis, have highlighted the effects of distance from the city center on community development. Using data from one major suburban region, we show that a more complete examination of Burgess' ecological life-cycle theory should deal also with the effects of initial development pattern, age …
The Social Context of Women's Labor Force Participation
Utilizing data from 61 societies, this inquiry focuses on women's labor force participation as a characteristic of the social structure. First, the analysis demonstrates that participation is positively related to economic development and divorce rate and negatively related to fertility and income inequality. While the effect of economic development is mediated by various aspects of familial composition, the most significant effect on female labo…
Community Segregation and the Costs of Ethnic Subordination
The socioeconomically detrimental consequences of ethnic or religious discrimination in Israel is shown to depend on the degree of community segregation. Part of the low levels of achievement of Jews of Asian or African origin is attributable to a disadvantageous distribution across Israeli communities. However, competing with Jews of European or American origin, Asian-Africans are disadvantaged at every step in the attainment process. The low at…
Effects of Community on Status Attainment
The major objective of the research reported here is to investigate the significance and meaning of the contextual effects of communities on individuals' opportunities for socioeconomic attainment. A model which incorporates both individuals and their communities is proposed and tested. The empirical test was done by using samples of the Israeli labor force population. The findings demonstrate that community has significant effects on individuals…
Professional Sports as an Alternative Channel of Social Mobility
Inequality of opportunity in the process of occupational attainment via the educational system is anticipated to cause a tendency toward alternative routes of social mobility among underprivileged groups. Professional sports have often been referred to in this respect, particularly in connection with the overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in them. The present study attempts to determine if the choice of a career in sports is mainly a matter …
Industrial shifts, female employment, and occupational differentiation
Sex-linked occupational differentiation has been seen as influenced by both the industrial structure of the economy and the sex composition of the labor force. Here, with a sample of 70 SMSAs, it was found (a) that the odds of men relative to women of joining professional and managerial occupations increased between 1960 and 1970, and (b) that this increase was dependent on the growth of tertiary industries and the greater number of women joining…
Gender, Ethnicity and Income Inequality The Israeli Experience
Social Mobility and Immigrants or Immigrants and Social Mobility
Raftery raises three issues in his comment. First, we got some of our four-fold tables wrong-including farm fathers when we said we didn't. He seems to be right-and for two populations, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, our errors are consequential. Our Canadian error turns out not to be so. The difference between his and our collapsing of the Hungarian data can well be seen as a matter of honest disagreement-one on which we are willing to yield i…
Gender, Ethnicity and Income Inequality * The Israeli Experience
Sport and Beyond
This paper challenges the popular argument that sport is an effective channel for upward mobility, especially for ethnic minorities. My study of retired professional soccer players in Israel establishes the following findings: First, members of the subordinate ethnic group are disadvantaged in attainment of status not only in schools and labor markets but also in and via sport. Second, a professional career in sport does not intervene between bac…
The place of odds ratios in the study of place, race and differential occupational opportunities
During the last few decades the study of racial differences in occupational and economic attainment has progressed rapidly, both in terms of theory and research. The ecological study of the racial and ethnic organization of local labor markets has not. The use of odds ratios and occupation-specific categories may provide a fruitful avenue for future research in the study of inequality across space and time
Place, race and differential occupational opportunities
A large body of literature investigating the link between black percentage in the community and occupational differentiation, has found disparities to be greater in places where blacks are in a higher proportion. The present paper discusses first, theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques employed in past research; second, examines the issue in terms of the relative odds of the races for incumbency in a series of occupational groupin…
Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market
Following the 1967 Six Day War, Arab residents of territories administered by Israel began to enter the Israeli labor market in large numbers. This study focuses on the distribution and change in their occupational status relative to other major ethnic groups in the Israeli economy Data from labor force surveys in Israel and the administered territories for 1969, 1975, and 1981 reveal that noncitizen Arabs initially entered low status occupations…
Class, Sports, and Social Development. Richard Gruneau
Ethnic Group Mobility in the Israeli Labor Market
In the present study we address the issue of ethnic-group occupational mobility. Utilizing data on the Israeli labor force for the years 1969 and 1982 we examine changes in the occupational distribution of four distinct groups: Jews of European/American origin, Jews of AsianlAfrican origin, Israeli Arabs, and non-citizen Arabs from the West Bank and the Gaza District. Longlinear analysis is employed to distinguish between structural and compositi…
Economic Development, Investment Dependence, and the Rise of Services in Less Developed Nations
Occupational Mobility Through Sport
This paper tests the thesis that professional career in sport serves as a route for mobility. A study of retired soccer players in Israel suggests that, on the average, players benefited occupationally from their careers in sport. Sport career variables however, do not influence occupational mobility of the retired athletes. The only variables that affect athletes' occupational mobility are education and ethnicity. Occupational gain-mobility tend…
Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water
The status of Arab workers the West Bank and Gaza Strip has become one of the most salient social problems facing Israeli society. Noncitizen Arabs in Israel occupy the lowest, most undesirable positions and are paid significantly less than Israeli citizens. The handicaps they suffer are similar in many respects to those experienced by migrant laborers in Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, by seasonal Mexican workers in the United States, and…
Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water
Bi-Ethnic Labor Markets, Mono-Ethnic Labor Markets, and Socioeconomic Inequality
The research examines the role of local opportunity structure in the determination of social and economic outcomes by focusing on the impact of local labor market segregation on socioeconomic inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Analysis of the 1983 Israeli Census reveals that the rules by which minority members achieve socioeconomic status vary considerably across bi-ethnic and mono-ethnic labor markets. Arabs working in Jewish communiti…
Ecology of Sports Violences
This research explores the extent to which aggregate violence among players and spectators of soccer teams is affected by the urban ecology and the sports ecology in which the teams operate. Sports violence is viewed here as characteristic of the social system. The analysis focuses on 297 soccer teams in Israel, and demonstrates that violence in sports is systematically related to both the team’s urban ecology and sports ecology. First, teams rep…
Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water
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