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.

Autorentext
Nabil Khattab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and University of Bristol, UK Sami Miaari, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel Haya Stier, Tel Aviv University, Israel Michael Shalev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Noah Lewin-Epstein, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Vered Kraus, University of Haifa, Israel Yuval Yonay, University of Haifa, Israel Rassem Khamaisi, University of Haifa, Israel Alexandra Kalev, Tel Aviv University, Israel Khaled Abu Asbah, Beit Berl and Al-Qasemi Academic Colleges, Israel Ilan Shdema, Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel Amit Lazarus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Talya Steiner, Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI) and Harvard Law School, USA Muhammad Abu-Nasrah, Massar Institute for Social Research Erez Marantz, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Inhalt
Foreword; Moshe Semyonov Introduction; Sami Miaari and Nabil Khattab PART I: THE PERSISTENCE OF ETHNIC PENALTIES 1. On the Reserve Bench: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli Labour Market; Nabil Khattab and Sami Miaari 2. Combating Discrimination against Arab Palestinians in the Israeli Workplace: The Current Enforcement Failure and the Role of the Newly Established EEOC; Talya Steiner 3. The persistent Wage Gaps between Arabs and Jews in Israel, 1997-2009; Sami Miaari and Nabil Khattab PART II: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FEMALE EMPLOYMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 4. Ethnicity, Gender, and Exclusion: Which Occupations Are Open to Israeli Palestinian women?; Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay 5. Changing Earnings Composition in Israeli-Palestinian Households: The Emergence of the Dual-earner Family; Haya Stier 6. Beyond Local Culture and Politics: The New Consumerism Industry and Changing Labor Force Participation of Palestinian Women; Erez Marantz, Alexandra Kalev, and Noah Lewin-Epstein 7. The Welfare State as an Employer: An Unacknowledged Avenue of Opportunity for Palestinian Women in Israel; Michael Shalev and Amit Lazarus PART III: SEGREGATION MATTERS 8. Barriers for Development of Employment Fields in the Arab Localities and Their Implications; Rassem Khamaisi 9. Factors and Obstacles Impeding Economic Development within Palestinian Localities in Israel: The Case of the Food Industry; Khaled Abu-Asbah and Muhammad Abu-Nasrah 10. Social and Spatial Examination of Arabs' Employment in Israel Using a Single municipality Scale; Ilan Shdema