Poverty rankings of LIS countries given by traditional Head Count and Poverty Gap measures are compared to the rankings found using Sen (1976), Kakwani (1980), and Foster et al. (1984). It is found that the latter measures lead to more consistent rankings.

In 1995, a National Health Insurance Law (NHIL) was enacted in Israel. It specified a mandatory package of services to be provided by the four competing private non-profit sickness funds, and secured the financing of that provision. This review discusses the main issues associated with financing...

Based on data from the two first waves of SHARE- Israel, conducted in 2004-2005 and 2009-2010, this study examines the extent to which individuals moved in or out of paid work and the extent to which these labor market transitions are associated with policy changes introduced in the years...

The study examines the labor-force behavior of Israelis at older ages, focusing on the determinants of the transitions between states of labor-force participation between 2005 and 2010. The study uses panel data from the first two waves of the SHARE-Israel longitudinal survey. A multinomial...

This review summarizes a paper given at the Israel Economic Association conference held in mid-June 2020. It presents an index for the severity of the lockdown and restrictions imposed immediately after the onset of the crisis by the Israeli government in comparison to other countries, and a...