Abstract
Despite recent increases in educational attainment among Arab Palestinian women in Israel, their labour force participation rates continue to be below those of Jewish women. This study draws on data from the Israeli Labour Force Survey and Social Survey covering the period 1995–2016 to investigate whether this pattern can be explained by socio-economic and demographic factors, level of religiosity, human capital assets, family structure and related public policies, and early retirement. All these factors are found to affect the probability of Arab Palestinian women participating in the labour market, raising implications for labour market policies.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 587-614 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | International Labour Review |
| Volume | 162 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The authors 2023 Journal compilation © International Labour Organization 2023.
Keywords
- Arab Palestinian women
- Israel
- early retirement
- ethnicity
- gender
- labour force participation
- public policy
- religiosity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Strategy and Management
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Management of Technology and Innovation
