Israel’s Economy: A Macro Perspective
28.11.2013Data for 2012 and early 2013 point to a reasonable level of growth in GDP, a stable unemployment rate, and a continued...
- Eran Yashiv
Educational Opportunity, Employment, and Income: 1995-2008
22.11.2013The following questions are addressed: Did the expansion of the Israeli education system during this period contribute to more equal...
- Eyal Bar-Haim Carmel Blank Yossi Shavit
Education and Employment in the Haredi Sector
22.11.2013A new and more precise method of identifying the Haredi population was developed, enabling a deeper analysis as well as...
- Eitan Regev
Material Hardship in Israel
20.11.2013The study, based on the Central Bureau of Statistics Social Survey data, reveals that a large number of Israelis experience...
- Haya Stier Alisa Lewin
Women in the Labor Force: The Impact of Education on Employment Patterns and Wages
14.11.2013Education plays a major role in explaining women’s labor force participation patterns as well as the changes that have occurred...
- Haya Stier Efrat Herzberg
The Law for Rehabilitation in the Community of Persons with Mental Disabilities: An Interim Appraisal
14.11.2013Besides reviewing the reform’s accomplishments and its contribution to the changes that have occurred in mental health services, the article...
- Uri Aviram
Trends in Israel’s Healthcare System
14.11.2013However, the healthcare system continues to play a role in widening income gaps; it also continues to exhibit a loss...
- Dov Chernichovsky Eitan Regev
Reforms are Needed to Increase Public Funding in Israel’s Health System
14.11.2013However, a decline in the ratio of physicians to population that reached a modern low in 2006, an approximate ten-percentage-point...