Socioeconomic Inequality in Israel

Nabil Khattab is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. His latest publications include the co-edited volume Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market: A Multi-disciplinary Approach and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Sociology, The Social Science Journal, and the British Educational Research Journal.Sami Miaari is Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and Research Fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. His research focuses on labor economics, economic causes, and consequences of conflict, including the economic costs of political instability and the relationship between economic shocks and conflict. His work on these issues has appeared in mainstream journals of economics such as the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of Conflict Resolution.Haya Stier is Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She has served as Chair of the Labor Studies Department, President of the Research Committee on Social Stratification, and the editor of Israeli Sociology. Her works on work-family issuesand inequality have appeared in leading sociological journals.

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

• ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction; Nabil Khattab, Sami Miaari, and Haya StierPART I: GENERAL INEQUALITY1. The Correlates of Household Debt in Late-Life; Noah Lewin-Epstein and Or Raviv2. Household Inequality and the Contribution of Spousal Correlations; Pnina O. Plaut and Steven Plaut3. Religious Schooling, Secular Schooling, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: An Application of Regression-Based Inequality Decompositions; Ayal Kimhi and Moran SandelPART II: INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION4. First-Generation College Students in an Expanded and Diversified Higher Education System: The Case of Israel; Hanna Ayalon and Oded Mcdossi5. Ethno/religious hierarchy in educational achievement and socioeconomic status in Israel: An historical perspective; Dov Friedlander, Barbara S. Okun and Calvin Goldscheider6. Overeducation and Wage Penalties amongst Immigrants, Native Minorities and Majority Ethnic groups; Nabil Khattab and Amit LazarusPART III: GENDER INEQUALITY7. The 'Gender Revolution' in Israel: Progress and Stagnation; Hadas Mandel and Debora P. Birgier8. Gender earnings gaps in ethnic and religious groups in Israel; Vered Kraus and Yuval YonayPART IV: ETHNIC INEQUALITY9. Geographical considerations in Arabs' integration into the Israeli labour market; Izhak Schnell and Ilan Shdema10. Horizontal inequality in Israel's welfare state: do Arabs receive fewer and lower cash benefits?; MichaelShalev and Amit LazarusNotes on contributorsIndex