Employment restrictions and political violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Sami Miaari; Asaf Zussman; Noam Zussman

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.002

Employment restrictions and political violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Sami Miaari, Asaf Zussman, Noam Zussman

Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations with Israelis during the first phase of the Intifada. Identification relies on the fact that variation in the pre-Intifada employment rate in Israel across Palestinian localities was not only considerable but also unrelated to prior levels of involvement in the conflict. We find robust evidence that localities that suffered from a sharper drop in employment opportunities were more heavily involved in the conflict.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24-44
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	101
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.002
State	Published - May 2014

Keywords

Employment restrictions
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Political violence

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.002

Cite this

@article{57edef76fcf1421bb5d22fc11717d135,

title = "Employment restrictions and political violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict",

abstract = "Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations with Israelis during the first phase of the Intifada. Identification relies on the fact that variation in the pre-Intifada employment rate in Israel across Palestinian localities was not only considerable but also unrelated to prior levels of involvement in the conflict. We find robust evidence that localities that suffered from a sharper drop in employment opportunities were more heavily involved in the conflict.",

keywords = "Employment restrictions, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Political violence",

author = "Sami Miaari and Asaf Zussman and Noam Zussman",

note = "Funding Information: We thank the editor, William Neilson, an associate editor, two anonymous reviewers, Yael Berda, Haggay Etkes, Daniele Paserman and participants of several seminars for many valuable comments. We also thank Aharon Barazani for his help with the data and Hadar Divish for research assistance. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Bank of Israel. Sami Miaari thanks the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 218105 (EUSECON) for funding his stay in DIW-Berlin while he was working on this project.",

year = "2014",

month = may,

doi = "10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.002",

language = "الإنجليزيّة",

volume = "101",

pages = "24--44",

journal = "Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization",

issn = "0167-2681",

publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Employment restrictions and political violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

AU - Miaari, Sami

AU - Zussman, Asaf

AU - Zussman, Noam

N1 - Funding Information: We thank the editor, William Neilson, an associate editor, two anonymous reviewers, Yael Berda, Haggay Etkes, Daniele Paserman and participants of several seminars for many valuable comments. We also thank Aharon Barazani for his help with the data and Hadar Divish for research assistance. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Bank of Israel. Sami Miaari thanks the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 218105 (EUSECON) for funding his stay in DIW-Berlin while he was working on this project.

PY - 2014/5

Y1 - 2014/5

N2 - Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations with Israelis during the first phase of the Intifada. Identification relies on the fact that variation in the pre-Intifada employment rate in Israel across Palestinian localities was not only considerable but also unrelated to prior levels of involvement in the conflict. We find robust evidence that localities that suffered from a sharper drop in employment opportunities were more heavily involved in the conflict.

AB - Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations with Israelis during the first phase of the Intifada. Identification relies on the fact that variation in the pre-Intifada employment rate in Israel across Palestinian localities was not only considerable but also unrelated to prior levels of involvement in the conflict. We find robust evidence that localities that suffered from a sharper drop in employment opportunities were more heavily involved in the conflict.

KW - Employment restrictions

KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict

KW - Political violence

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897731190&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.002

DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.02.002

M3 - مقالة

SN - 0167-2681

VL - 101

SP - 24

EP - 44

JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

ER -

Employment restrictions and political violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Abstract

Keywords

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this