The place of opportunity: Community and individual determinants of poverty among Jews and Arabs in Israel

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-191

  Lewin, Alisa C ^a   Stier, Haya ^b   Caspi Dror, Dafna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Inequality; Poverty; Segregation; Welfare dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748790096     PISSN: 02765624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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