Accumulated wealth, as a store of economic means and consumption potential, is a particularly relevant resource in later life, when labor market income terminates or declines, and state support is limited. Past research has linked economic resources, especially income, to various measures of...

This article adopts a `structural perspective' of earnings determinants to examine changes over time in the gender earnings gap in Israeli society. It studies the combined effect of the expansion of the services and public sector employment on the gender earnings gap, utilizing data from the...

Why are Muslim and Arab women less likely to be part of the modern labor force? A popular answer claims that it is the unique cultural and religious heritage of these women that leads them to choose or to follow options other than participating in the labor force. In many Muslim countries...

Comparative studies of occupational sex segregation have employed a variety of measures to estimate the extent of segregation across labor markets. In this article, the authors focus on two intrinsic limitations of the ratio index, which is derived from the log-linear framework: singularity for...

In a recent article (2005), the authors proposed the first-order approximation (FOA) index for the measurement of gender occupational segregation across detailed occupational categories. The FOA index can remedy the two inherent limitations—sensitivity and singularity—associated...

Researchers have long demonstrated that persons of high economic status are likely to be healthier than persons of low socioeconomic standing. Cross-national studies have also demonstrated that health of the population tends to increase with country's level of economic development and to decline...