This study provides estimates of the private returns to schooling in Palestine utilizing eight quarterly labor force surveys for 1999 and 2001. This period was chosen to investigate the differential impact of the Israeli closure policy on Palestinian male and female workers. Although gross enrollment ratios for males and females reveal little to…

A comparison of the Israel labor market between 1974 and 1983 found that both higher wages and age-earnings profiles were related to higher education levels. For higher education levels, the age-earnings profile presents steeper parabolic shapes. An earnings peak for higher educational levels at later ages was found only for 1974. Technological…