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The Color of Opportunity
"The culmination of a six-year collaboration analyzing the Urban Poverty and Family Life Survey of Chicago, The Color of Opportunity is the first major work to compare Chicago's inner city minorities with national populations of similar race and ethnicity from a life course perspective. The authors find that blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans living in poor neighborhoods differ in their experiences with early material deprivation and the lifetime disadvantages that accumulate - but they do not differ much from the urban poor in their family formation, welfare participation, or labor force attachment. Stier and Tienda find little evidence for ghetto-specific behavior, but they document the myriad ways color still restricts economic opportunity."--BOOK JACKET.
Heavy Work Investment
The book deals with the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) recently initiated by Snir and Harpaz. Since its introduction the interest in the general HWI model has increased considerably. The book illustrates the development of HWI conceptualization, theory, and research. It deals with the foremost HWI subtype of workaholism. However, it also compares workaholism as a "negative" HWI subtype with work devotion/passion/engagement, as a "positive" HWI subtype. Most importantly, it addresses HWI in general, including its possible situational subtypes. In view of Snir and Harpaz's claim that the study of situational heavy work investors is relatively scarce, this certainly constitutes a promising step in the right direction. Finally, it deals with timely and important topics examined by prominent international researchers on Heavy Work Investment and such issues as: personality factors of workaholism, work-life balance, cross-cultural similarities and differences in HWI, work addiction and technology, HWI and retirement, and intergenerational similarity in work investment.
Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market
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.
Immigration and Integration in Israel and Beyond
Immigration is a persistent and complex phenomenon intertwined with geographical, political, societal, and economic challenges. The number of international migrants has been continually increasing over the past five decades. The contributors to this volume dedicated to Professor Rebeca Raijman address various types of migrants like economic or labour migrants, forced migration and ethnic migrants. Implementing both qualitative and quantitative data and analyses, they provide insight on why individuals decide to migrate, how their decisions affect their own lives and the lives of their offspring, and how immigrants affect the receiving societies they arrive in.
Aging in Israel
In the twentieth century, all developed nations began to undergo unprecedented demographic changes, as their birth rates declined, and life expectancies increased significantly --an average of thirty years in less than a century. These developments have caused major transformations in the composition of populations in these countries, especially in terms of the proportions of the various age groups. While the age groups of children and adolescents have decreased, those of elderly persons aged 65 and over, have increased. Consistent with the situation in other developed nations, the absolute number and percentage of elderly persons in the Israeli population is increasing, while the percentage...
Men, Work, and Family
Comprises 13 essays grouped under three headings: fathering and providing; role allocation and role change; and workplace organization and policy, which examine men's attitudes towards work and family responsibilities. Discusses how the traditional role of fathers as providers is evolving to include their role as nurturants and how men have begun to adjust their work to accomodate their families. Shows how parenting and household responsibilities are considered within the workplace and the occupational structure.
American Dreams
This dissertation is a study of Indian migration to metropolitan Detroit. It examines the migration and settlement patterns of men and women especially through the lens of gender, exploring their shared experiences as well as the sharp differences between their experiences. The study situates Indians' migrations within the context of a newly independent India and the changes occurring there since 1947. Moreover, it highlights the centrality of the United States' immigration policies in influencing and shaping the Indian community and its characteristics, especially their remarkable middle-class profile. Although Indians are contemporary migrants who migrated to America in the recent era foll...
Sociological Abstracts
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Journal of Palestine Studies
A quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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