The Impact of Technology on Wage Gaps in Israel
23.02.2026The full policy paper is currently available only in Hebrew. As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to develop, their adoption...
Do Israelis Work More or Less? The Elasticity of Employment in the Labor Market
07.08.2024Do Israelis work more or less relative to workers in other countries? Which population groups in Israel work more and...
The Risk of Automation in the Israeli Labor Market
13.12.2019This study maps out the Israeli labor market using data from the OECD’s Survey of Adults Skills (PIAAC). It focuses...
The Labor Market: An Overview
01.12.2019In 2019, labor force participation and employment rates were high (81% and 78%, respectively) and similar to their 2018 levels....
- Hadas Fuchs Gil Epstein
Executive Summary: Arab Israeli Women Entering the Labor Market – Higher Education, Employment, and Wages
22.12.2018Usually, socioeconomic discussions about the Arab Israeli sector focus on the gaps that still exist between this sector and Jewish...
- Hadas Fuchs Tamar Friedman Wilson
Executive Summary: Today’s Workers, Tomorrow’s Retirees – Understanding the Pension Gender Gap in Israel
13.12.2018In recent years there has been much public discussion about a variety of issues relating to pensions in Israel, including...
- Liora Bowers Hadas Fuchs
Going the distance: commuting patterns in Israel
13.12.2018In a recently published Taub Center study, Researcher Haim Bleikh explores various aspects of commuting trends in Israel and finds...
- Taub Center Staff
Patterns of Haredi Integration into the Labor Market
13.12.2018The full chapter can be accessed using the link on the right. This chapter looks at the integration of young Haredim into...
- Eitan Regev
Back and Forth: Commuting for Work in Israel
22.10.2018Executive Summary The subject of commuting has attracted more and more public attention in Israel in recent years as road...
Trends in the Labor Market
13.06.2017The labor market in Israel is moving from a traditional economy, based on manufacturing and production, to one of information...
- Claude Berrebi Kyrill Shraberman Shirley Yarin
Gender Differences in the Labor Market: Wages and Employment Polarization
13.12.2016Executive Summary The wage gap between women and men in Israel’s labor market stood at 35% in 2016. This gap...
- Hadas Fuchs
Work-life balance: parental leave policies in Israel
13.07.2016Working Women Employment rates for Israeli women are relatively high and have been improving over time. In 2014, the employment...
- Taub Center Staff
The freedom of labor mobility: Israel’s dual labor market
22.04.2016The celebration of Passover, a holiday that commemorates the duality of slavery and freedom, provides an opportunity to discuss another...
- Taub Center Staff
The Dual Labor Market: Trends in Productivity, Wages and Human Capital in the Economy
22.12.2015The Israeli economy is characterized by a severe duality. At one end are the advanced high-tech industries, with high and...
- Gilad Brand Eitan Regev
The Increase in the Number of Income Earners and Its Impact on Household Income
13.12.2015The Israeli economy is growing but real wages have not risen since the early 2000s. Reductions in the income tax...
- Ayal Kimhi Kyrill Shraberman
Contract Workers in Israel
13.12.2015The public discourse in Israel has dealt extensively with the phenomenon of contract workers: workers employed via a third party,...
- Noam Gruber
Occupations at Risk: Computerization Trends in the Israeli Labor Market
13.12.2015In the past few years, there has been a rapid process of technological developments that is changing the face of...
The Socioeconomic Situation of Young Adults in Israel
13.12.2015This chapter examines the developments in the socioeconomic characteristics of young adults ages 18-34 in Israel since 1995, with breakdowns...
- Hadas Fuchs
Arab Israeli Pharmacists in the Israeli Labor Market
13.11.2015For many years, the Arab Israeli population has struggled to find a place in the Israeli labor market. This is...
- Taub Center Staff
Education and Employment Among Ethiopian Israelis
22.10.2015A few months ago, widespread protests among the Ethiopian-Israeli community arose, resulting from feelings of discrimination and oppression within the...
- Taub Center Staff
Integration of Arab Israeli Pharmacists into the Labor Market
13.08.2015This policy paper attempts to examine the mechanisms that both facilitate and hinder the employment of educated Arab Israelis by...
- Noah Lewin-Epstein Alexandra Kalev Erez Marantz Shimrit Slonim
Education and Employment Trends Among Ethiopian Israelis
22.06.2015The education level of those who came to Israel at an older age is low. Though their employment rate is...
- Taub Center Staff
Objectives and Recommendations for the 34th Government of Israel
21.05.2015Center researchers have mapped the challenges facing the country in the fields of macroeconomics, the labor market, education, social services,...
- Taub Center Staff
The Importance of the Level of High School Math Studies to the Academic Studies and Future Careers of Israeli Students
22.04.2015The study found that employment was higher among those who took a bagrut [matriculation] exam of at least 3 units...
- Ayal Kimhi Arik Horovitz
Return on educational investment for Israel’s Haredim (ultra-Orthodox)
22.01.2015Within Israeli society, a large debate has ensued about how to better integrate the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) into Israel’s labor market...
- Taub Center Staff
Labor Income Inequality Trends in Israel
14.12.2014This period witnessed a growing return, or yield, on education, a factor which could lead to a rise in labor...
Labor Market Reform in Israel and the Flexicurity Option
14.12.2014Flexicurity countries have higher levels and faster growth in labor productivity and the gap between these countries and Israel has...
- Dan Ben-David Liora Bowers
Government Versus Private Pensions
13.08.2014The comparison includes several measures: efficiency and enforcement of collection, the ability to enhance competition in the capital market in...
- Shlomo Yitzhaki Daniel Premisler
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
Employment and Income Trends Among Older Israelis
13.11.2013This chapter looks at the changes that occurred in the employment patterns and economic status of Israel’s older adults between...
- Ayal Kimhi Kyrill Shraberman
Israelis Working More, Making Less
22.09.2013Hence, average Israeli incomes are lower than would be expected given the country’s innovative ability. A country’s total economic output...
- Taub Center Staff
Is the Israeli Labor Market Segmented?
13.08.2013This allows us, in effect, to compare the low-wage and high-wage segments after “purging” the “noisy” observations. Assigning workers to...
- Ayal Kimhi Ezra Fishman
Reforming Foreign Worker Employment in Israel
14.12.2012This new arrangement authorized the hiring of foreign workers on a fixed-quota basis, subject to various fees and employment levies,...
- Yoram Ida
Labor Market Trends: Employment Rate and Wage Disparities
13.12.2012Over the past few decades, the decline in male employment was concentrated amongst the less educated, while the rise in...
- Ayal Kimhi
Arab Israeli Unemployment Much Higher than Previously Thought
13.12.2012In January 2012, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) began conducting its Labor Force Survey under new guidelines. The changes...
- Taub Center Staff
Changes in Labor Force Survey Data and Their Meaning
13.12.2012The change brought about some significant differences in the data. In particular, amongst Arab Israelis there was a dramatic jump...
- Eran Yashiv
Bumps on the Road Towards Making the Desert Bloom
22.08.2012As a country with an average of just 40 to 50 days of rain a year in its coastal region...
- Taub Center Staff
Income Inequality in Israel
22.10.2011Wage gaps in Israel are higher than in any other developed country and are particularly evident where worker educational levels...
- Ayal Kimhi
A Macro Perspective – 2010
22.09.2011Current data indicate respectable growth in terms of GDP and employment, relatively low unemployment, current account surpluses, and reasonable inflation....
- Eran Yashiv
Foreign Workers Displacing Less Educated Israelis
22.01.2011The number of foreign workers in Israel has risen from a negligible number two decades ago to today’s situation where...
- Taub Center Staff
Teach Your Children Well
22.11.2010Preliminary research conducted by Taub Center Deputy Director Prof. Ayal Kimhi that will appear in the Center’s next State of...
- Taub Center Staff
Does Rural Household Income Depend on Neighboring Urban Centers? Evidence from Israel
14.09.2010Migration flows can be affected by differential wages, housing costs and other amenities, and by commuting costs and costs of...
- Ayal Kimhi Sarit Menahem
Income Inequality Between and Within Population Groups: 1997-2010
14.09.2010At most, these gaps can explain a fifth of total inequality, while the remaining 80 percent are within population sub-groups....
- Ayal Kimhi Michal Shafir-Tidhar
Education, Employment and Long-Term Trends
22.07.2010The State of Israel faces several severe problems in the socio-economic realm: high levels of poverty and income inequality, and...
- Taub Center Staff
How Minimum the Wage, How Negative the Tax?
14.07.2010Israel already has some of the highest rates of non-employment in the western world. Its high rates of poverty and...
- Taub Center Staff
Unemployment Versus Non-Employment in Israel
14.05.2010For many years, unemployment rates in Israel were higher than the Western average. Even before the recession of the early...
- Taub Center Staff
Increase in Male Non-Employment Over Past Three Decades
14.05.2010Three decades ago, the rate of non-employment among prime working age (35-54) non-haredi men in Israel was almost identical to...
- Taub Center Staff
Decrease in Female Non-Employment Over Past Three Decades
14.05.2010The employment situation among women aged 35-54 is very different from that of men, both in Israel and in the...
- Taub Center Staff
Israel’s Labor Market – Today, in the Past and in Comparison with the West
13.04.2010Three decades ago, Israeli rates of non-employment among men were very similar to those of the OECD. this chapter shows...
- Dan Ben-David
Ethnic Minorities and Rural Income Inequality: The Case of Israeli Arabs
14.02.2010Per capita income inequality within the rural Arab population is much lower than within the rural Jewish population. Belonging to...
- Ayal Kimhi
Employment and Wages – 2007
22.04.2008Thus, the civilian labor force participation rate rose from 54 percent at the beginning of the decade to 56.7 percent...
- Yaakov Kop
Minimum Wage and Negative Income Tax
22.09.2006The influence of these policies is examined with regard to two population groups - younger and older members of the...
- Miki Malul Israel Luski
Postponing retirement? Employment trends among Israel’s older adults
14.01.2005The Israeli population is younger than that of other developed countries, although a substantial increase in the share of older...
- Taub Center Staff
Employment, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
22.12.2004This new work world is characterized by globalization of the workforce, rapid change due to many and varied processes, as...
- Roni Barzuri
The Erosion of Low Salaries and Increasing Poverty Among Working Families
14.12.2004These gaps also underlie the growing poverty rates among children and working families in Israel. This paper is in Hebrew...
- Zvi Sussman
- Yitzhak Schnell
- Jimmy Weinblatt
- Jimmy Weinblatt