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

Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume addresses the most recent developments and outcomes of the labor market integration of the Palestinian minority inside Israel. The volume covers a wide range of topics (ethnicity, religion, racism, gender, and spatial segregation), groups (Jews and Palestinians, men and women), disciplines (sociology, law, and geography), and methodologies (quantitative and qualitative). The authors examine the sources of labor market inequality in terms of employment and unemployment, occupational concentration, segregation, exclusion, and wages. They provide insight into recent trends and analyze changing patters of inequality and economic activity within households. The chapters further underscore the role of residential segregation in producing labor market inequalities between Jews and Palestinians, who are separated both socially and spatially.

Nabil Khattab is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK and a Senior Researcher at the Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI), Israel. His research interests include ethnic relations, social inequality (from school to work), students' educational and occupational aspirations and expectations, and quantitative sociology.

Sami Miaari is a Lecturer in the Department of Labor Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Previously, he was a Research Affiliate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics in the Max Weber Program at the European University Institute in Florence-Italy. His research focuses on the economic costs of political instability, the economic consequences of immigration, discrimination against Arabs in the Israeli labor market, and the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Palestinian economy.