Noam Tarshish
Biographic Data
| ID | 368671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam Tarshish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarshish |
| SIGNATURE | TARSHISH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4603-2625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mental health in asylum-seeking parents: Dynamics of fragmentation, resilience, and empowerment
Asylum-seeking populations face a disproportionate burden of adverse mental health outcomes, yet empirical evidence on the factors that promote resilience and empowerment within these communities remain limited. This exploratory qualitative study examined the lived experiences of asylum-seeking parents through the lens of the family resilience model. Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 low-income Eritrean asylum-seeking par…
A tension of rights and needs? Social work advocacy for undocumented residents in the unrecognized villages of the Negev
Social work advocacy is a longstanding principle in social work. These endeavors, grounded in core values, aim to safeguard and promote fundamental human rights for individuals and groups. However, citizenship status and marginalization often pose a challenge for advocacy efforts. In unrecognized indigenous communities, such as those of the undocumented Bedouins in Israel, the realization of social rights is inextricably linked to the struggle fo…
Two sides of the same coin? What shapes social workers’ decisions to stay or leave social service departments
This study examines social workers' decisions to stay or leave social service departments in Israel. Previous research has primarily focused on factors influencing either retention or turnover separately, with limited exploration of common denominators affecting both decisions. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 22 current and 25 former social workers, we identify three key tensions that influence both retention and turnover: (a) between…
Retracted Article: Improving Responses to Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence—Lessons from Dating App Users
The rise of online dating apps has highlighted safety concerns, especially regarding sexual harassment and assault. This study aims to give voice to app users of dating apps and gather actionable solutions and proposals on how to improve the systemic response to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) on dating apps. Data for this study were collected through an online survey involving a diverse sample of 382 participants aged 18 or older i…
Eligible but Not Entitled: The Distinctiveness of Non‐Entitlement Policy Designs at the Frontline
This paper explores the distinctive dynamics of entitlement versus non‐entitlement social programmes, focusing on how this distinction influences frontline workers' management of access to social provisions. While much of the existing literature emphasises the macro‐level impacts of these alternative policy designs, this study focuses on their operational dimensions by examining how frontline workers steer users' access in each type of programme.…
Revisiting the Global Social Work Definition: How Social Workers Define the Profession a Decade Later
Social work has struggled to establish a unanimous definition encompassing the full professional scope. In 2014, the International Federation of Social Workers introduced a revised global definition outlining principles, objectives, goals and theories. Now, a decade later, questions have emerged about the definition and its contemporary relevance. This qualitative study interviewed sixty-five Israeli social workers to uncover how they define the …
Dating Apps: A New Emerging Platform for Sexual Harassment? A Scoping Review
Currently, dating apps are one of the most popular platforms for meeting romantic and sexual partners. However, little is known about the potential for sexual harassment on these platforms. In the current scoping review, we sought to examine what is known about sexual harassment facilitated through smartphone dating apps. We searched for studies that reported on sexual harassment via dating apps through PubMed, Web of Science, PsycInfo, Communica…
You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims
Encounters with welfare state bureaucracy are often burdensome and might even result in administrative exclusion and non‐take up. With the growing scholarly interest in administrative burden experiences, a particular focus has been on learning costs, with evidence suggesting that difficulty obtaining reliable and useful information is one of their most fundamental aspects. We still lack a systematic conceptualization of bureaucratic information a…
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: Who, What, and How
This article contributes to the growing body of research on administrative burdens by providing a theoretically and empirically driven typology of governments’ burden reduction strategies. Despite the mounting interest in burden reduction, the literature still lacks a typology for systematically identifying and classifying such strategies. The article identifies three analytical dimensions of burden reduction: distributive (who bears the burden),…
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: The relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts
Family members and friends play a crucial role in refugees' arrival and settlement, including accommodating them in their homes for varying periods. While the migration literature has demonstrated the positive impact of such support for refugees' well-being, the relationship between the host and guest and the potential challenges of reunion and cohabitation are seldom explored. This study adopts the concept of 'hospitality'- a notion originally b…
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits
Among the factors identified to account for non-take-up of social benefits, there has been limited research on 'process costs', particularly regarding the impact of geographic access. Using Israeli data on field office openings from 1993 to 2021, this paper investigates the impact of geographic access on the take-up of the five largest social security programs in Israel. Based on staggered openings and closings of social security field offices, w…
Culturally Competent Policy Practice in Minority Communities during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Contextual and Structural Perspective
Minority communities have borne a disproportionate burden of health, social and economic consequences during the pandemic. By engaging in policy-shaping processes, social workers can contribute to the development of beneficial policies for minority communities. When working in cross-cultural environments with majorities and minorities, social workers must develop cultural competence to be effective in policy practice. Despite the importance assoc…
Bottom Line is You Deserve These Things’: Experiences of Social Security Claimants as Lessons for Take-up Advocacy
Non-take-up of social benefits is widely viewed as a critical problem in the modern welfare state, undermining the social contract between it and its citizens. Social work has always been considered a key profession in promoting take-up of social benefits as part of its professional commitment to human rights and advocacy. Yet, despite recent research efforts aiming to conceptualise take-up advocacy, there is a clear need to address the experienc…
The Administrative Burden Framework: A New Horizon for Research and Practice in Social Work
Social work is widely recognized as a human rights profession. The commitment to protect and advocate for social and economic rights has been incorporated into official definitions and codes of ethics of the profession globally, undergirding social work models and services. However, despite the overwhelming recognition of the importance of social work advocacy, a unified framework for research and practice has not been agreed upon, and new challe…
Covid-19 and the changing roles of social workers in minority communities: Lessons from the Israeli ultra-Orthodox community
Minority groups have been disproportionately vulnerable to COVID-19’s effects. Whereas, social workers have been instrumental in countering those effects, their roles have been understudied, particularly during the ‘new normal’ that followed the outbreak. This gap is addressed by drawing on interviews with 28 social workers in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel, held after the outbreak and during the ‘new normal’. Three main rol…
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden
Passported benefits are additional benefits provided to individual or households based on a previous eligibility to a 'primary' social security benefit. Although passported benefits should be easier to claim, in reality the claiming process is often cumbersome and results in low take-up. Drawing on an Israeli case study, we offer a conceptual framework to categorize and analyse the varieties of passported benefits along five dimensions: the eligi…
The limits of burden-reducing policies: A case study of unemployment insurance during the Covid-19 crisis in Israel
This study examines policy efforts to reduce administrative burden and to increase accessibility to unemployment insurance (UI) during the COVID-19 crisis in Israel and the consequences of these for claimants. A mixed-method approach was applied, utilising administrative documents, interviews and survey data. The findings suggest a mixed trend: burden-reducing measures were introduced but were constrained by the system’s preexisting infrastructur…
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors
Drawing on interviews with disability and income support beneficiaries, the article examines the encounters of Israeli citizens with the National Insurance Institute. Using the administrative burden conceptualisation, our analysis highlights three known types of costs: compliance, learning and psychological. The current study provides further conceptualisation of these burdens by unfolding the role of three concrete elements involved in generatin…
Do ‘child‐friendly’ countries contribute to child satisfaction? A comparative study of OECD countries
Child‐friendliness is a new concept in the research literature. Derived from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, it assesses different nations’ commitment to the aspects of children’s rights: both self‐determination and nurturance and care. Since the concept is still in its infancy, there is a need to study the associations between child‐friendliness and the subjective well‐being of children in a comparative perspective. Acc…
Children’s Multidimensional Subjective Well-Being in OECD and Non-OECD Countries: Is Cross-Country Comparison Possible
How friendly are OECD countries towards children? Conceptualization and measuring issues
Parental attitudes following disclosure of sibling sexual abuse: A child advocacy center intervention study
Sibling sexual abuse (SSA) represents a range of childhood sexual behaviors that cannot be considered manifestations of age-appropriate curiosity. Despite being the commonest and longest lasting form of sexual abuse within the family, SSA is the least reported, treated, and researched. This qualitative study is based on a sample of 60 mostly religious Jewish families referred to a child advocacy center (CAC) in Jerusalem from 2010 to 2015. It exa…
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: Who, What, and How
This article contributes to the growing body of research on administrative burdens by providing a theoretically and empirically driven typology of governments’ burden reduction strategies. Despite the mounting interest in burden reduction, the literature still lacks a typology for systematically identifying and classifying such strategies. The article identifies three analytical dimensions of burden reduction: distributive (who bears the burden),…
The Administrative Burden Framework: A New Horizon for Research and Practice in Social Work
Social work is widely recognized as a human rights profession. The commitment to protect and advocate for social and economic rights has been incorporated into official definitions and codes of ethics of the profession globally, undergirding social work models and services. However, despite the overwhelming recognition of the importance of social work advocacy, a unified framework for research and practice has not been agreed upon, and new challe…
Bottom Line is You Deserve These Things’: Experiences of Social Security Claimants as Lessons for Take-up Advocacy
Non-take-up of social benefits is widely viewed as a critical problem in the modern welfare state, undermining the social contract between it and its citizens. Social work has always been considered a key profession in promoting take-up of social benefits as part of its professional commitment to human rights and advocacy. Yet, despite recent research efforts aiming to conceptualise take-up advocacy, there is a clear need to address the experienc…
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors
Drawing on interviews with disability and income support beneficiaries, the article examines the encounters of Israeli citizens with the National Insurance Institute. Using the administrative burden conceptualisation, our analysis highlights three known types of costs: compliance, learning and psychological. The current study provides further conceptualisation of these burdens by unfolding the role of three concrete elements involved in generatin…
You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims
Encounters with welfare state bureaucracy are often burdensome and might even result in administrative exclusion and non‐take up. With the growing scholarly interest in administrative burden experiences, a particular focus has been on learning costs, with evidence suggesting that difficulty obtaining reliable and useful information is one of their most fundamental aspects. We still lack a systematic conceptualization of bureaucratic information a…
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden
Passported benefits are additional benefits provided to individual or households based on a previous eligibility to a 'primary' social security benefit. Although passported benefits should be easier to claim, in reality the claiming process is often cumbersome and results in low take-up. Drawing on an Israeli case study, we offer a conceptual framework to categorize and analyse the varieties of passported benefits along five dimensions: the eligi…
Revisiting the Global Social Work Definition: How Social Workers Define the Profession a Decade Later
Social work has struggled to establish a unanimous definition encompassing the full professional scope. In 2014, the International Federation of Social Workers introduced a revised global definition outlining principles, objectives, goals and theories. Now, a decade later, questions have emerged about the definition and its contemporary relevance. This qualitative study interviewed sixty-five Israeli social workers to uncover how they define the …
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: The relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts
Family members and friends play a crucial role in refugees' arrival and settlement, including accommodating them in their homes for varying periods. While the migration literature has demonstrated the positive impact of such support for refugees' well-being, the relationship between the host and guest and the potential challenges of reunion and cohabitation are seldom explored. This study adopts the concept of 'hospitality'- a notion originally b…
The limits of burden-reducing policies: A case study of unemployment insurance during the Covid-19 crisis in Israel
This study examines policy efforts to reduce administrative burden and to increase accessibility to unemployment insurance (UI) during the COVID-19 crisis in Israel and the consequences of these for claimants. A mixed-method approach was applied, utilising administrative documents, interviews and survey data. The findings suggest a mixed trend: burden-reducing measures were introduced but were constrained by the system’s preexisting infrastructur…
How friendly are OECD countries towards children? Conceptualization and measuring issues
Retracted Article: Improving Responses to Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence—Lessons from Dating App Users
The rise of online dating apps has highlighted safety concerns, especially regarding sexual harassment and assault. This study aims to give voice to app users of dating apps and gather actionable solutions and proposals on how to improve the systemic response to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) on dating apps. Data for this study were collected through an online survey involving a diverse sample of 382 participants aged 18 or older i…
Culturally Competent Policy Practice in Minority Communities during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Contextual and Structural Perspective
Minority communities have borne a disproportionate burden of health, social and economic consequences during the pandemic. By engaging in policy-shaping processes, social workers can contribute to the development of beneficial policies for minority communities. When working in cross-cultural environments with majorities and minorities, social workers must develop cultural competence to be effective in policy practice. Despite the importance assoc…
Parental attitudes following disclosure of sibling sexual abuse: A child advocacy center intervention study
Sibling sexual abuse (SSA) represents a range of childhood sexual behaviors that cannot be considered manifestations of age-appropriate curiosity. Despite being the commonest and longest lasting form of sexual abuse within the family, SSA is the least reported, treated, and researched. This qualitative study is based on a sample of 60 mostly religious Jewish families referred to a child advocacy center (CAC) in Jerusalem from 2010 to 2015. It exa…
Children’s Multidimensional Subjective Well-Being in OECD and Non-OECD Countries: Is Cross-Country Comparison Possible
How friendly are OECD countries towards children? Conceptualization and measuring issues
Do ‘child‐friendly’ countries contribute to child satisfaction? A comparative study of OECD countries
Child‐friendliness is a new concept in the research literature. Derived from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, it assesses different nations’ commitment to the aspects of children’s rights: both self‐determination and nurturance and care. Since the concept is still in its infancy, there is a need to study the associations between child‐friendliness and the subjective well‐being of children in a comparative perspective. Acc…
The limits of burden-reducing policies: A case study of unemployment insurance during the Covid-19 crisis in Israel
This study examines policy efforts to reduce administrative burden and to increase accessibility to unemployment insurance (UI) during the COVID-19 crisis in Israel and the consequences of these for claimants. A mixed-method approach was applied, utilising administrative documents, interviews and survey data. The findings suggest a mixed trend: burden-reducing measures were introduced but were constrained by the system’s preexisting infrastructur…
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors
Drawing on interviews with disability and income support beneficiaries, the article examines the encounters of Israeli citizens with the National Insurance Institute. Using the administrative burden conceptualisation, our analysis highlights three known types of costs: compliance, learning and psychological. The current study provides further conceptualisation of these burdens by unfolding the role of three concrete elements involved in generatin…
Culturally Competent Policy Practice in Minority Communities during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Contextual and Structural Perspective
Minority communities have borne a disproportionate burden of health, social and economic consequences during the pandemic. By engaging in policy-shaping processes, social workers can contribute to the development of beneficial policies for minority communities. When working in cross-cultural environments with majorities and minorities, social workers must develop cultural competence to be effective in policy practice. Despite the importance assoc…
Bottom Line is You Deserve These Things’: Experiences of Social Security Claimants as Lessons for Take-up Advocacy
Non-take-up of social benefits is widely viewed as a critical problem in the modern welfare state, undermining the social contract between it and its citizens. Social work has always been considered a key profession in promoting take-up of social benefits as part of its professional commitment to human rights and advocacy. Yet, despite recent research efforts aiming to conceptualise take-up advocacy, there is a clear need to address the experienc…
The Administrative Burden Framework: A New Horizon for Research and Practice in Social Work
Social work is widely recognized as a human rights profession. The commitment to protect and advocate for social and economic rights has been incorporated into official definitions and codes of ethics of the profession globally, undergirding social work models and services. However, despite the overwhelming recognition of the importance of social work advocacy, a unified framework for research and practice has not been agreed upon, and new challe…
Covid-19 and the changing roles of social workers in minority communities: Lessons from the Israeli ultra-Orthodox community
Minority groups have been disproportionately vulnerable to COVID-19’s effects. Whereas, social workers have been instrumental in countering those effects, their roles have been understudied, particularly during the ‘new normal’ that followed the outbreak. This gap is addressed by drawing on interviews with 28 social workers in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel, held after the outbreak and during the ‘new normal’. Three main rol…
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden
Passported benefits are additional benefits provided to individual or households based on a previous eligibility to a 'primary' social security benefit. Although passported benefits should be easier to claim, in reality the claiming process is often cumbersome and results in low take-up. Drawing on an Israeli case study, we offer a conceptual framework to categorize and analyse the varieties of passported benefits along five dimensions: the eligi…
Dating Apps: A New Emerging Platform for Sexual Harassment? A Scoping Review
Currently, dating apps are one of the most popular platforms for meeting romantic and sexual partners. However, little is known about the potential for sexual harassment on these platforms. In the current scoping review, we sought to examine what is known about sexual harassment facilitated through smartphone dating apps. We searched for studies that reported on sexual harassment via dating apps through PubMed, Web of Science, PsycInfo, Communica…
You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims
Encounters with welfare state bureaucracy are often burdensome and might even result in administrative exclusion and non‐take up. With the growing scholarly interest in administrative burden experiences, a particular focus has been on learning costs, with evidence suggesting that difficulty obtaining reliable and useful information is one of their most fundamental aspects. We still lack a systematic conceptualization of bureaucratic information a…
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: Who, What, and How
This article contributes to the growing body of research on administrative burdens by providing a theoretically and empirically driven typology of governments’ burden reduction strategies. Despite the mounting interest in burden reduction, the literature still lacks a typology for systematically identifying and classifying such strategies. The article identifies three analytical dimensions of burden reduction: distributive (who bears the burden),…
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: The relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts
Family members and friends play a crucial role in refugees' arrival and settlement, including accommodating them in their homes for varying periods. While the migration literature has demonstrated the positive impact of such support for refugees' well-being, the relationship between the host and guest and the potential challenges of reunion and cohabitation are seldom explored. This study adopts the concept of 'hospitality'- a notion originally b…
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits
Among the factors identified to account for non-take-up of social benefits, there has been limited research on 'process costs', particularly regarding the impact of geographic access. Using Israeli data on field office openings from 1993 to 2021, this paper investigates the impact of geographic access on the take-up of the five largest social security programs in Israel. Based on staggered openings and closings of social security field offices, w…
Retracted Article: Improving Responses to Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence—Lessons from Dating App Users
The rise of online dating apps has highlighted safety concerns, especially regarding sexual harassment and assault. This study aims to give voice to app users of dating apps and gather actionable solutions and proposals on how to improve the systemic response to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) on dating apps. Data for this study were collected through an online survey involving a diverse sample of 382 participants aged 18 or older i…
Eligible but Not Entitled: The Distinctiveness of Non‐Entitlement Policy Designs at the Frontline
This paper explores the distinctive dynamics of entitlement versus non‐entitlement social programmes, focusing on how this distinction influences frontline workers' management of access to social provisions. While much of the existing literature emphasises the macro‐level impacts of these alternative policy designs, this study focuses on their operational dimensions by examining how frontline workers steer users' access in each type of programme.…
Revisiting the Global Social Work Definition: How Social Workers Define the Profession a Decade Later
Social work has struggled to establish a unanimous definition encompassing the full professional scope. In 2014, the International Federation of Social Workers introduced a revised global definition outlining principles, objectives, goals and theories. Now, a decade later, questions have emerged about the definition and its contemporary relevance. This qualitative study interviewed sixty-five Israeli social workers to uncover how they define the …
Mental health in asylum-seeking parents: Dynamics of fragmentation, resilience, and empowerment
Asylum-seeking populations face a disproportionate burden of adverse mental health outcomes, yet empirical evidence on the factors that promote resilience and empowerment within these communities remain limited. This exploratory qualitative study examined the lived experiences of asylum-seeking parents through the lens of the family resilience model. Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 low-income Eritrean asylum-seeking par…
A tension of rights and needs? Social work advocacy for undocumented residents in the unrecognized villages of the Negev
Social work advocacy is a longstanding principle in social work. These endeavors, grounded in core values, aim to safeguard and promote fundamental human rights for individuals and groups. However, citizenship status and marginalization often pose a challenge for advocacy efforts. In unrecognized indigenous communities, such as those of the undocumented Bedouins in Israel, the realization of social rights is inextricably linked to the struggle fo…
Two sides of the same coin? What shapes social workers’ decisions to stay or leave social service departments
This study examines social workers' decisions to stay or leave social service departments in Israel. Previous research has primarily focused on factors influencing either retention or turnover separately, with limited exploration of common denominators affecting both decisions. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 22 current and 25 former social workers, we identify three key tensions that influence both retention and turnover: (a) between…
Political science (14 works) · Business (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works)