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.

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.

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