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Sharone, Ofer – Social Forces, 2013
This article provides a new account of American job seekers' individualized understandings of their labor-market difficulties, and more broadly, of how structural conditions shape subjective responses. Unemployed white-collar workers in the U.S. tend to interpret their labor market difficulties as reflecting flaws in themselves, while Israelis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, White Collar Occupations, Social Support Groups, Interviews
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Semyonov, Moshe; Lewin-Epstein, Noah – Social Forces, 2011
This research examines wealth distribution across ethnic groups in Israel and evaluates the role of labor market rewards and intergenerational transfers in producing ethnic disparities. Israel SHARE data from 2005-2006 are used in the analyses. The findings reveal considerable ethnic disparities in wealth. Wealth disparities are most pronounced…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Labor Market, Foreign Countries