Educational stratification among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Historical disadvantage, discrimination, and opportunity

Population Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-180

  Okun, Barbara S ^a   Friedlander, Dov ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabs; Discrimination; Education; Israel; Muslims

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ETHNICITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 22144475409     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324720500099405     Document Type: Article

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