This book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his …
Well-educated citizens vote more frequently than the poorly educated in some countries, including the USA. However, in many countries, no such differences are observed. One …
R Batt, D Holman, U Holtgrewe - Ilr Review, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This introduction to the special issue on the globalization of service work provides an overview of the call center sector and its development in coordinated, liberal market, and …
Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known-because it was …
Using data from a large-scale Annual Social Survey of Israel's CBS, the current study investigates the correlation between digital skills and extrinsic rewards among late career …
Y Haberfeld, Y Cohen - Social Science Research, 2007 - Elsevier
The Israeli society is ethnically diverse and it is an ideal case for studying the role of rising inequality on the widening earnings gaps between dominant and subordinate groups …
We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel …
Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour's collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work …
Y Cohen, I Kogan - European Sociological Review, 2007 - academic.oup.com
This article focuses on how receiving societies' structural and institutional characteristics affect immigrants' labour market performance and progress. Using German census data for …