Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market: A Multi-disciplinary Approach PDF
Preview Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market: A Multi-disciplinary Approach
Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market MiddleEastToday Serieseditors: MohammedAyoob FawazA.Gerges UniversityDistinguishedProfessorof ProfessorandChairofMiddleEastern InternationalRelations PoliticsandInternationalRelations MichiganStateUniversity DirectoroftheMiddleEastCentre LondonSchoolofEconomics TheIranianRevolutionof1979andthesubsequentGulfWars,alongwiththeoverthrowof theIraqipresidentSaddamHussein,havedramaticallyalteredthegeopoliticallandscapeof thecontemporaryMiddleEast.Thisseriesputsforwardacriticalbodyoffirst-ratescholar- shipthatreflectsthecurrentpoliticalandsocialrealitiesoftheregion,focusingonoriginal researchontheIsraeli–Palestineconflict;socialmovements,institutions,andtheroleplayed bynongovernmentalorganizationssuchasHamas,Hezbollah,theTaliban,andtheMuslim Brotherhood;IranandTurkeyasemergingpreeminentpowersintheregion—theformeran IslamicrepublicandthelatterademocracycurrentlygovernedbyapartywithIslamicroots; theoil-producingcountriesinthePersianGulfandtheirpetroleconomies;potentialprob- lemsofnuclearproliferationintheregion;andthechallengesconfrontingtheUnitedStates, Europe,andtheUnitedNationsinthegreaterMiddleEast.Thefocusoftheseriesisongen- eraltopicssuchassocialturmoil,warandrevolution,occupation,radicalism,democracy,and IslamasapoliticalforceinthecontextofmodernMiddleEasthistory. AliShari’atiandtheShapingofPoliticalIslaminIran KingshukChatterjee ReligionandtheStateinTurkishUniversities:TheHeadscarfBan FatmaNevraSeggie TurkishForeignPolicy:Islam,Nationalism,andGlobalization HasanKösebalaban NonviolentResistanceintheSecondIntifada:ActivismandAdvocacy EditedbyMaiaCarterHallwardandJulieM.Norman TheConstitutionalSystemofTurkey:1876tothePresent ErgunÖzbudun Islam,theState,andPoliticalAuthority:MedievalIssuesandModernConcerns EditedbyAsmaAfsaruddin BahrainfromtheTwentiethCenturytotheArabSpring MiriamJoyce PalestinianActivisminIsrael:ABedouinWomanLeaderinaChangingMiddleEast HenrietteDahan-KalevandEmilieLeFebvrewithAmalEl’Sana-Alh’jooj EgyptAwakeningintheEarlyTwentiethCentury:MayyZiyadah’sIntellectualCircles BoutheinaKhaldi TheSocialandEconomicOriginsofMonarchyinJordan TariqMoraiwedTell PalestiniansintheIsraeliLaborMarket:AMulti-disciplinaryApproach EditedbyNabilKhattabandSamiMiaari Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market A Multi-disciplinary Approach Edited by Nabil Khattab and Sami Miaari PALESTINIANSINTHEISRAELILABORMARKET Copyright©NabilKhattabandSamiMiaari2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2013by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN:978–1–137–33644–6 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailablefromthe LibraryofCongress. AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:August2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-1-349-46348-0 ISBN 978-1-137-33645-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137336453 Toourparents This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures ix ListofTables xi Foreword xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 SamiMiaariandNabilKhattab Part I ThePersistenceofEthnicPenalties 1 OntheReserveBench:PalestinianEmployeesinIsrael 11 NabilKhattabandSamiMiaari 2 CombatingDiscriminationagainstArabPalestinians intheIsraeliWorkplace:TheCurrentEnforcementFailure andtheRoleoftheNewlyEstablishedEEOC 37 TalyaSteiner 3 ThePersistentWageGapsbetweenPalestiniansandJews inIsrael,1997–2009 61 SamiMiaariandNabilKhattab Part II TheChangingNatureofFemaleEmployment andItsConsequences 4 Ethnicity,Gender,andExclusion:WhichOccupations AreOpentoIsraeliPalestinianWomen? 87 YuvalYonayandVeredKraus 5 ChangingEarningsCompositioninIsraeli-Palestinian Households:TheEmergenceoftheDual-EarnerFamily 111 HayaStier 6 Israeli-PalestinianWomenintheRetailIndustry:Social BoundariesandJobSearchTechniques 131 ErezA.Marantz,AlexandraKalev,andNoahLewin-Epstein viii CONTENTS 7 TheWelfareStateasanEmployer:AnUnacknowledged AvenueofOpportunityforPalestinianWomeninIsrael 153 MichaelShalevandAmitLazarus Part III SegregationMatters 8 BarrierstoDevelopingEmploymentZonesintheArab PalestinianLocalitiesinIsraelandTheirImplications 185 RassemKhamaisi 9 FactorsandObstaclesImpedingEconomicDevelopment withinPalestinianLocalitiesinIsrael:TheCaseoftheFood Industry 213 KhaledAbuAsbahandMuhammedAbuNasra 10 SocialandSpatialExaminationofPalestinianEmployment inIsraelinSingleMunicipalities 241 IlanShdema ListofContributors 263 Index 267 List of Figures 1.1 ParticipationratesinthelaborforceamongJewsand Arabs,1995–2010 17 1.2 UnemploymentRatesamongJewsandPalestinians, 1995–2010 18 3.1 RealhourlywagegapinIsraelbetweenJewsand Palestinians,1997–2009 69 3.2 Numberofnon-IsraeliworkersintheIsraelilabor market,1997–2009 69 3.3 RealhourlywagegapsbetweenJewsandPalestiniansby percentiles,1997–2009 75 5.1 EarnercompositionofPalestinianandJewish couple-headedfamilies,1983–2010 116 5.2 Rateofmale-provideranddual-earnerfamiliesamong Muslims,Druze,andChristians,1983–2010 118 5.3 Resultsofsimulation 126 6.1 LaborforceparticipationratesofJewishandPalestinian womeninIsrael(1985–2009) 132 6.2 Palestinianwomenlaborforceparticipationbyeconomic sectors(1985–2009) 132 7.1 Numberofemployeesbybroadeconomicbranchand percentageinSSLF 159 7.2 PercentageofwomenemployedintheSSLFbyorigingroup 160 7.3 Trendsinhighereducation(HE)andlaborforce participation(LFPR)oftheeducated 163 7.4 Probabilitiesofbeingemployedinthesocialservicesby originandyear 165
The list of books you might like
