As the Second Intifada broke out at the end of 2000, Israel severely restricted entry for Palestinians to its labor market, forcing a great section of commuters to return to their local labor markets. This paper examines ...

This paper estimates the short run effect of creating more public jobs on private employment in the occupied West Bank. Unlike most cited research, the results provide evidence that favors crowd-in effect both at the ...

This paper uses the closure of the Israeli labor market as a large labor market shock and examines its impact on Palestinian youths’ educational choices. The sudden closure denied thousands of Palestinian workers, ...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate if there is an added worker effect in West Bank over the period 1999 – 2012. More specifically, we will assess the probability of sibling to enter the labor force in ...

The article examines the wage impact of Israel’s constraints on economic activities and infrastructure development in the West Bank’s Area C. We provide evidence to show that Area C workers suffer a wage penalty of about ...