M Yaish
Biographic Data
| ID | 48227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Yaish |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yaish |
| SIGNATURE | YAISH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3261-4798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 536 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Dynamics of Earnings Inequality between Israel's Sub‐Populations: A Longitudinal Perspective
We review results from previous research on the dynamics of earnings inequality in Israel. For as diverse society as Israel, we focus attention on the role of education in producing differential earnings trajectories between men and women, Jews and Arabs, and Ashkenazi‐Jews and Mizrahi‐Jews. This review highlights the importance of the longitudinal perspective for studying income inequality, as we show that earnings inequality is dynamic in Israe…
Returns to parental higher education across the wage distribution, gender, and the life course
The effects of individual and collective labor market status on employment and earnings during the Covid-19 crisis
Based on a unique longitudinal survey conducted between April 2020 and April 2021 in Israel, this study estimated the effect of labor market status during the outbreak of COVID-19 on continuity of employment, worktime and earnings throughout the crisis. Labor market status has both an individual dimension (the type of employment contract) and a collective one (membership in a trade union or coverage by a collective agreement). Findings from curvi…
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel
The strength and structure of linkages between educational outcomes and occupations affects both educational and labor market outcomes, but the characteristics and consequences of these linkages can vary systematically across population groups defined by race, ethnicity, religion and gender. A comparison of linkage structure for Arab and Jewish workers, for Mizrachi and Ashkenazi workers, and for male and female workers in Israel reveals that whi…
Short-cycle tertiary vet as a first step to an academic degree: A stackable credentials pathway in Israel
As part of the efforts of higher education to reach additional audiences, this study deals with an alternative non-traditional pathway that leads to higher academic education. This alternative, the stackable credentials pathway, uses short-cycle tertiary VET as a way to an academic degree. The study describes the extent of users of the pathway in Israel and the characteristics of its population and compares them to traditional pathway students, w…
What Drives Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men to Go to Work in Israel
Only about half of the ultra-Orthodox men in Israel dedicate their lives mainly to religious studies, while the rest participate in the labor market. Utilizing siblings with different labor market outcomes sampling, we collected retrospective data on ultra-Orthodox men who earn a living (N = 107), matched to their brothers (N = 103) who study in yeshiva as a way of life. Our logit model indicates that aspirations for upward mobility are positivel…
Does the Pandemic Affect Inequality Within Families: The Case of Dual-Earner Couples in Israel
This article exploits the unique consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak to examine whether time constraints drive the unequal division of unpaid labor between dual-earner couples in Israel. Using the first wave of longitudinal household data that was collected in Israel since the outbreak of the pandemic, we focused on 325 dual-earner couples who stayed employed during the first lockdown. By employing OLS regressions, we examined the asso…
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark
Although most studies of the transition from school to work take a snapshot perspective in examining economic returns to education, such returns evolve over an individual's lifetime. We empirically test a theoretical formulation derived from the cumulative advantage mechanism about enduring life-cycle effects of educational mobility on income. We analyse income trajectories for all Danes born in 1960-1961, and we consider how the welfare state ma…
Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Life Course Economic Trajectories in a Social Democratic Welfare State
We test a prediction of cumulative advantage theory about enduring life cycle effects of educational mobility on earnings. We identify four mobility groups by cross-classifying parental education (degree/no degree) by their offspring (degree/no degree) and study the long-term economic consequences of intergenerational educational mobility. Data for this study come from Swedish population registers covering birth cohorts between 1953 and 1955. We …
Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Life-Course Income Trajectories in the United States
Atheoretical formulation derived from the cumulative advantage literature, that intergenerational educational mobility has enduring life-course income effects above and beyond individuals’ education, is empirically tested. This formulation contrasts sharply with both the human capital model, which does not consider parental education as a determinant of children’s income, and the sociological research on social mobility, which mostly relies on a …
Trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Israel: 1983–2008
Focusing on the intergenerational educational association alone obscures discussions of downward and upward mobility and immobility patterns, which entail different life experiences and their potential consequences. Utilizing data on Israelis aged 25–32 years old over three periods, the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, during which tertiary education expanded dramatically, we examine if and how relative and absolute intergenerational educational mobility…
Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel
The economic shutdown and national lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 have increased demand for unpaid work at home, particularly among families with children, and reduced demand for paid work. Concurrently, the share of the workforce that has relocated its workplace to home has also increased. In this article, we examine the consequences of these processes for the allocation of time among paid work, housework, and care work for men and …
Cumulative Disadvantage Dynamics for Palestinian Israeli Arabs in Israel's Economy
Recruiting the cumulative advantage mechanism, this study explores how earnings inequality between dominant and minority groups in the same society unfolds over the life course. Jews and Palestinian Israeli Arabs in Israel's economy provide the context for this study. We find that the earnings gap between the groups has widened over time, particularly among men. This trend is hardly mediated by education, since returns to education have increased…
Short and long-term consequences of high-school tracks for earnings in Israel
Vocational and academic curricula are said to hold both short-term and long-term consequences for economic outcomes. The literature on this topic, however, fails to address the long-term consequences of educational tracking. Just as important, this literature did not examine returns to high-school tracking within levels of further education. This paper aims to fill these gaps in the literature. Utilizing longitudinal data of Israeli men and women…
Does the coronavirus pandemic level the gender inequality curve? (It doesn’t)
On class and earnings trajectories: The use of class and earnings to study intergenerational mobility
The price of religiosity: Enticing young Haredi men into secular academic studies
Standard economic theory cannot explain why so few Haredi (ultra-orthodox) men attain college degrees in Israel, despite the significant economic returns to such degrees. In addition to economic variables, this article introduces a combination of social and behavioral characteristics, such as religious identity, into the individual choice process. This, in turn, enables us to evaluate a possible trade-off between economic benefits associated with…
Intracohort Trends in Ethnic Earnings Gaps: The Role of Education
This study demonstrates that studying ethnic/racial inequality on the basis of cross-sectional data conceals how such inequality might unfold over the life course. Moving beyond a snapshot perspective, we ask, Do Israel's Jewish ethnic groups differ in their long-term earnings trajectories? Analyzing nearly 20 years of registered earnings data, the authors find that for the same cohort (25- to 32-year-old Jews in 1995), the ethnic earnings gap ha…
Intergenerational educational mobility and life course earnings in Israel
Preferences for the Distribution of Incomes in Modern Societies: The Enduring Influence of Social Class and Economic Context
Using International Social Survey Program data, we explore the relationship between economic context and attitudes with respect to the distribution of incomes in 20 modern societies, including Canada. Our findings demonstrate that economic inequality has an enduring influence on attitudes. Consistent with the economic self-interest thesis, preferences for equality are strongest among those in working-class occupations. Moreover, independent of on…
Equality of Opportunity
Religious Heterogeneity and Cultural Diffusion: The Impact of Christian Neighbors on Muslim and Druze Women's Participation in the Labor Force in Israel
This study exploits the unique demographic structure of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel and their geographical immobility in order to help resolve the riddle why women in the Middle East and North Africa are less likely to participate in the labor force than women elsewhere in the world. We show that, controlling for economic variables, Muslim and Druze Arab women are more likely to enter the labor force if they live in a locality where C…
Gender Differences in Fields of Study: The Role of Significant Others and Rational Choice Motivations
In recent decades, young women outperform men aca-demically at all levels of school and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school (DiPrete and Buchmann, 2013). However, while women
Occupational segregation and gender inequality in job quality: A Multi-Level Approach
Gender differences in perceived quality of employment (achievement, content, job insecurity, time autonomy and physical and emotional conditions) are examined. The study asks whether women's occupations provide better conditions in areas that facilitate their dual role in society, as a trade-off for low monetary rewards. Specifically, it examines the association of women's concentration in broader occupational categories, embedded in particular n…
Disentangling 'Cultural Capital: The Consequences of Cultural and Economic Resources for Taste and Participation
Most studies of the determinants of cultural capital have used taste or participation as interchangeable indicators of embodied cultural capital. In this article, we propose to treat the two concepts separately. Specifically, we argue that participation is constrained to a larger degree by financial resources than by tastes and to a lesser degree by cultural resources (parental cultural capital, father’s education, and respondent’s education); we…
Primary and Secondary Effects in Class Differentials in Educational Attainment: The Transition to A-Level Courses in England and Wales
In this article we start from Boudon's important, but still surprisingly neglected, distinction between 'primary' and 'secondary' effects in the creation of class differentials in educational attainment. Primary effects are all those, whether of a genetic or socio-cultural kind, that are expressed via the association between children's class backgrounds and their actual levels of academic performance. Secondary effects are those that are expresse…
Occupational segregation and gender inequality in job quality: A Multi-Level Approach
Gender differences in perceived quality of employment (achievement, content, job insecurity, time autonomy and physical and emotional conditions) are examined. The study asks whether women's occupations provide better conditions in areas that facilitate their dual role in society, as a trade-off for low monetary rewards. Specifically, it examines the association of women's concentration in broader occupational categories, embedded in particular n…
Does the coronavirus pandemic level the gender inequality curve? (It doesn’t)
Disentangling 'Cultural Capital: The Consequences of Cultural and Economic Resources for Taste and Participation
Most studies of the determinants of cultural capital have used taste or participation as interchangeable indicators of embodied cultural capital. In this article, we propose to treat the two concepts separately. Specifically, we argue that participation is constrained to a larger degree by financial resources than by tastes and to a lesser degree by cultural resources (parental cultural capital, father’s education, and respondent’s education); we…
Curricular Choice: A Test of a Rational Choice Model of Education
Rational choice theories of education view student's educational decision as a sequence of binary choices between options that entail long-term utility and options that reduce short-term risk of failure. One of the best articulated models of educational choice asserts that choice between alternative options is affected by students’ utility considerations, their expectations regarding the odds of success or failure in alternative educational optio…
Class structure in a deeply divided society: Class and ethnic inequality in Israel, 1974-1991
Despite the fact that in many societies ethnicity plays an important role in stratification processes, a common view held by students of stratification argues that the role of ascriptive criteria in stratification processes is diminishing, and that the main axis of the modern stratification system is rooted in the division of labour in the marketplace. Despite this, most Israeli sociologists have taken the ethnic and national cleavages to be the …
Norms and Rationality in Electoral Participation and in the Rescue of Jews in WWII: An Application of the Model of Frame Selection
The rescue of Jews in WWII and electoral participation both constitute prominent puzzles for rational choice theories of human behavior and have given rise to lengthy debates about norms and rationality. To explain both phenomena, we apply the Model of Frame Selection. This theory of action provides an integrated account of norms and rationality, where cost-benefit calculus is replaced by unconditional norm conformity if actors hold strongly acti…
Gender Inequality in Job Authority: A Cross‐National Comparison of 26 Countries
This article argues that cross-national diversity in women's concentration in the public sector explains a substantial part of the cross-national variation in the gender gap in job authority. Using data on individuals in 26 countries represented in the 2005 International Social Survey Program module on Work Orientation (supplemented by societal-level information), this study supports this argument. The authors find that in countries with high lev…
Social mobility in 20 modern societies: The role of economic and political context
Gender Differences in Fields of Study: The Role of Significant Others and Rational Choice Motivations
In recent decades, young women outperform men aca-demically at all levels of school and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school (DiPrete and Buchmann, 2013). However, while women
The Importance of Being Asked: The Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe
A common phenomenon in social life is that some individuals help others and a few even risk their lives to benefit others, as in the case of those who helped Jews escape persecution in Nazi Europe. A few scholars single out motivations as the prime explanation of these rescue activities, yet concede that material opportunities, information, and other situational factors might have played a role. Their work, however, stops short of offering an acc…
Intracohort Trends in Ethnic Earnings Gaps: The Role of Education
This study demonstrates that studying ethnic/racial inequality on the basis of cross-sectional data conceals how such inequality might unfold over the life course. Moving beyond a snapshot perspective, we ask, Do Israel's Jewish ethnic groups differ in their long-term earnings trajectories? Analyzing nearly 20 years of registered earnings data, the authors find that for the same cohort (25- to 32-year-old Jews in 1995), the ethnic earnings gap ha…
The Consequences of Economic Restructuring for the Gender Earnings Gap in Israel, 1972-1995
This article adopts a 'structural perspective' of earnings determinants to examine changes over time in the gender earnings gap in Israeli society. It studies the combined effect of the expansion of the services and public sector employment on the gender earnings gap, utilizing data from the 1972 and 1995 censuses in Israel. It shows that within the context of an advanced legislation system regarding women's payment and rights, Israeli women are …
Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel
The economic shutdown and national lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 have increased demand for unpaid work at home, particularly among families with children, and reduced demand for paid work. Concurrently, the share of the workforce that has relocated its workplace to home has also increased. In this article, we examine the consequences of these processes for the allocation of time among paid work, housework, and care work for men and …
The Determinants of Women's Employment Dynamics: The Case of Israeli Women
The dynamic of Israeli women's labour market experiences is analysed, with the focus on three main determinants of their attachment to the labour market: (i) family events, particularly the effect and timing of childbirth on women's market involvement, (ii) human capital, and (iii) structural determinants, including occupation, and sector of employment. Utilizing data from the 2001 mobility study in Israel, which is a retrospective longitudinal s…
Class, status, and the intergenerational transmission of musical tastes in Israel
Intergenerational educational mobility and life course earnings in Israel
Short and long-term consequences of high-school tracks for earnings in Israel
Vocational and academic curricula are said to hold both short-term and long-term consequences for economic outcomes. The literature on this topic, however, fails to address the long-term consequences of educational tracking. Just as important, this literature did not examine returns to high-school tracking within levels of further education. This paper aims to fill these gaps in the literature. Utilizing longitudinal data of Israeli men and women…
Social cleavages, electoral reform and party choice: Israel's 'natural' experiment
Religious Heterogeneity and Cultural Diffusion: The Impact of Christian Neighbors on Muslim and Druze Women's Participation in the Labor Force in Israel
This study exploits the unique demographic structure of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel and their geographical immobility in order to help resolve the riddle why women in the Middle East and North Africa are less likely to participate in the labor force than women elsewhere in the world. We show that, controlling for economic variables, Muslim and Druze Arab women are more likely to enter the labor force if they live in a locality where C…
The Consequences of Immigration for Social Mobility: The Experience of Israel
Journal Article The Consequences of Immigration for Social Mobility: The Experience of Israel Get access Meir Yaish Meir Yaish Meir Yaish, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1 December 2002, Pages 449–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/18.4.449 …
Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Life Course Economic Trajectories in a Social Democratic Welfare State
We test a prediction of cumulative advantage theory about enduring life cycle effects of educational mobility on earnings. We identify four mobility groups by cross-classifying parental education (degree/no degree) by their offspring (degree/no degree) and study the long-term economic consequences of intergenerational educational mobility. Data for this study come from Swedish population registers covering birth cohorts between 1953 and 1955. We …
Cumulative Disadvantage Dynamics for Palestinian Israeli Arabs in Israel's Economy
Recruiting the cumulative advantage mechanism, this study explores how earnings inequality between dominant and minority groups in the same society unfolds over the life course. Jews and Palestinian Israeli Arabs in Israel's economy provide the context for this study. We find that the earnings gap between the groups has widened over time, particularly among men. This trend is hardly mediated by education, since returns to education have increased…
The price of religiosity: Enticing young Haredi men into secular academic studies
Standard economic theory cannot explain why so few Haredi (ultra-orthodox) men attain college degrees in Israel, despite the significant economic returns to such degrees. In addition to economic variables, this article introduces a combination of social and behavioral characteristics, such as religious identity, into the individual choice process. This, in turn, enables us to evaluate a possible trade-off between economic benefits associated with…
Preferences for the Distribution of Incomes in Modern Societies: The Enduring Influence of Social Class and Economic Context
Using International Social Survey Program data, we explore the relationship between economic context and attitudes with respect to the distribution of incomes in 20 modern societies, including Canada. Our findings demonstrate that economic inequality has an enduring influence on attitudes. Consistent with the economic self-interest thesis, preferences for equality are strongest among those in working-class occupations. Moreover, independent of on…
The Importance of Being Asked: The Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe
A common phenomenon in social life is that some individuals help others and a few even risk their lives to benefit others, as in the case of those who helped Jews escape persecution in Nazi Europe. A few scholars single out motivations as the prime explanation of these rescue activities, yet concede that material opportunities, information, and other situational factors might have played a role. Their work, however, stops short of offering an acc…
Old Debate, New Evidence: Class Mobility Trends in Israeli Society, 1974-1991
Journal Article Old Debate, New Evidence : Class Mobility Trends in Israeli Society, 1974–1991 Get access Meir Yaish Meir Yaish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2000, Pages 159–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/16.2.159 Published: 01 June 2000
Class structure in a deeply divided society: Class and ethnic inequality in Israel, 1974-1991
Despite the fact that in many societies ethnicity plays an important role in stratification processes, a common view held by students of stratification argues that the role of ascriptive criteria in stratification processes is diminishing, and that the main axis of the modern stratification system is rooted in the division of labour in the marketplace. Despite this, most Israeli sociologists have taken the ethnic and national cleavages to be the …
The Consequences of Immigration for Social Mobility: The Experience of Israel
Journal Article The Consequences of Immigration for Social Mobility: The Experience of Israel Get access Meir Yaish Meir Yaish Meir Yaish, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1 December 2002, Pages 449–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/18.4.449 …
Social cleavages, electoral reform and party choice: Israel's 'natural' experiment
The Consequences of Economic Restructuring for the Gender Earnings Gap in Israel, 1972-1995
This article adopts a 'structural perspective' of earnings determinants to examine changes over time in the gender earnings gap in Israeli society. It studies the combined effect of the expansion of the services and public sector employment on the gender earnings gap, utilizing data from the 1972 and 1995 censuses in Israel. It shows that within the context of an advanced legislation system regarding women's payment and rights, Israeli women are …
Opportunities, Little Change: Class Mobility in Israeli Society, 1974–91
Engages with the long lasting debate in sociology concerning the consequences of industrialization process for social mobility. It is argued that Israeli society provides one of the most adequate tests of this thesis. In this context, then, the analysis in this chapter is guided by two main questions: (1) has equality of opportunity in Israeli mobility increased over time, (2) has the mobility process in Israeli society become more meritocratic o…
On class differentials in educational attainment
Social class differentials in educational attainment have been extensively studied in numerous countries. In this paper, we begin by examining class differentials in the progression to higher secondary education among 16-year-old children in England and Wales. As has been shown for other countries, the differentials result both from the primary effects of differing levels of academic performance of children of different class background and from …
Resolute Heroes: The Rescue of Jews During the Nazi Occupation of Europe
in 1927, at the age of eighteen, jean kowalyk moved to the ukrainian village of czortowiec, where she worked as a seamstress. when the germans invaded in 1941, they brought to the village forced laborers to build a work camp. jean “watched the cruelty [done to the workers] day after day [...] when i saw people being molested, my religious heart whispered to me, ‘do not kill. love others as you love yourself’”. some time later, she heard a knock o…
Chapter Nine. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making
Class, status, and the intergenerational transmission of musical tastes in Israel
Primary and Secondary Effects in Class Differentials in Educational Attainment: The Transition to A-Level Courses in England and Wales
In this article we start from Boudon's important, but still surprisingly neglected, distinction between 'primary' and 'secondary' effects in the creation of class differentials in educational attainment. Primary effects are all those, whether of a genetic or socio-cultural kind, that are expressed via the association between children's class backgrounds and their actual levels of academic performance. Secondary effects are those that are expresse…
The Determinants of Women's Employment Dynamics: The Case of Israeli Women
The dynamic of Israeli women's labour market experiences is analysed, with the focus on three main determinants of their attachment to the labour market: (i) family events, particularly the effect and timing of childbirth on women's market involvement, (ii) human capital, and (iii) structural determinants, including occupation, and sector of employment. Utilizing data from the 2001 mobility study in Israel, which is a retrospective longitudinal s…
Gender Inequality in Job Authority: A Cross‐National Comparison of 26 Countries
This article argues that cross-national diversity in women's concentration in the public sector explains a substantial part of the cross-national variation in the gender gap in job authority. Using data on individuals in 26 countries represented in the 2005 International Social Survey Program module on Work Orientation (supplemented by societal-level information), this study supports this argument. The authors find that in countries with high lev…
Norms and Rationality in Electoral Participation and in the Rescue of Jews in WWII: An Application of the Model of Frame Selection
The rescue of Jews in WWII and electoral participation both constitute prominent puzzles for rational choice theories of human behavior and have given rise to lengthy debates about norms and rationality. To explain both phenomena, we apply the Model of Frame Selection. This theory of action provides an integrated account of norms and rationality, where cost-benefit calculus is replaced by unconditional norm conformity if actors hold strongly acti…
Curricular Choice: A Test of a Rational Choice Model of Education
Rational choice theories of education view student's educational decision as a sequence of binary choices between options that entail long-term utility and options that reduce short-term risk of failure. One of the best articulated models of educational choice asserts that choice between alternative options is affected by students’ utility considerations, their expectations regarding the odds of success or failure in alternative educational optio…
Disentangling 'Cultural Capital: The Consequences of Cultural and Economic Resources for Taste and Participation
Most studies of the determinants of cultural capital have used taste or participation as interchangeable indicators of embodied cultural capital. In this article, we propose to treat the two concepts separately. Specifically, we argue that participation is constrained to a larger degree by financial resources than by tastes and to a lesser degree by cultural resources (parental cultural capital, father’s education, and respondent’s education); we…
Social mobility in 20 modern societies: The role of economic and political context
Occupational segregation and gender inequality in job quality: A Multi-Level Approach
Gender differences in perceived quality of employment (achievement, content, job insecurity, time autonomy and physical and emotional conditions) are examined. The study asks whether women's occupations provide better conditions in areas that facilitate their dual role in society, as a trade-off for low monetary rewards. Specifically, it examines the association of women's concentration in broader occupational categories, embedded in particular n…
Equality of Opportunity
Religious Heterogeneity and Cultural Diffusion: The Impact of Christian Neighbors on Muslim and Druze Women's Participation in the Labor Force in Israel
This study exploits the unique demographic structure of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel and their geographical immobility in order to help resolve the riddle why women in the Middle East and North Africa are less likely to participate in the labor force than women elsewhere in the world. We show that, controlling for economic variables, Muslim and Druze Arab women are more likely to enter the labor force if they live in a locality where C…
Gender Differences in Fields of Study: The Role of Significant Others and Rational Choice Motivations
In recent decades, young women outperform men aca-demically at all levels of school and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school (DiPrete and Buchmann, 2013). However, while women
Preferences for the Distribution of Incomes in Modern Societies: The Enduring Influence of Social Class and Economic Context
Using International Social Survey Program data, we explore the relationship between economic context and attitudes with respect to the distribution of incomes in 20 modern societies, including Canada. Our findings demonstrate that economic inequality has an enduring influence on attitudes. Consistent with the economic self-interest thesis, preferences for equality are strongest among those in working-class occupations. Moreover, independent of on…
The price of religiosity: Enticing young Haredi men into secular academic studies
Standard economic theory cannot explain why so few Haredi (ultra-orthodox) men attain college degrees in Israel, despite the significant economic returns to such degrees. In addition to economic variables, this article introduces a combination of social and behavioral characteristics, such as religious identity, into the individual choice process. This, in turn, enables us to evaluate a possible trade-off between economic benefits associated with…
Intracohort Trends in Ethnic Earnings Gaps: The Role of Education
This study demonstrates that studying ethnic/racial inequality on the basis of cross-sectional data conceals how such inequality might unfold over the life course. Moving beyond a snapshot perspective, we ask, Do Israel's Jewish ethnic groups differ in their long-term earnings trajectories? Analyzing nearly 20 years of registered earnings data, the authors find that for the same cohort (25- to 32-year-old Jews in 1995), the ethnic earnings gap ha…
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