Labour-Market Integration by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Study of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women

Yael Goldfarb and Shoshana Neuman
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Yael Goldfarb: Department of Occupational TherapyUniversity of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel2Gal College, Loewenstein, Ra’anana, Israel
Shoshana Neuman: Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel4Faculty of Economics, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon 78211, Israel5Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5–9 53113 Bonn, Germany

Journal of Economics, Management and Religion (JEMAR), 2020, vol. 01, issue 01, 1-32

Abstract: Low employability among specific populations (e.g. religious/traditional women, the elderly, disabled workers, and immigrants) has unfavourable consequences on the unemployed individual, society, and the state economy. The latter include poverty, a heavy toll on welfare budgets, diminished growth, and an increase in the ‘dependency ratio’. We suggest a rather novel policy (borrowed from the field of Vocational Psychology) that could lead to successful integration into the labour market of low-employability populations: The design of tailor-made training programmes that respond to work motives, coupled with a working environment that caters to special needs/restrictions, and complemented with counselling and monitoring. The suggested strategy is illustrated using a case study of Israeli ultra-Orthodox women, who exhibit lower employment rates than other Israeli women. The motives behind their occupational choices are explored based on data collected by a survey. Factor Analysis is employed to sort out the motives behind their occupational choices, and regression analysis is used to associate job satisfaction with work motivation. Policy implications are suggested based on the findings. There is already some evidence on the successful outcomes of the proposed strategy.

Keywords: Low employability; ultra-Orthodox (Haredi); Israel; occupation; motives; job satisfaction; old-age dependency ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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