ABSTRACT This article reviews the female labour force participation rates (LFPR) of Jewish and Arab women in Israel from 1955 to 2017. One finding of the review is that the female Jewish LFPR are very high, while the female Arab LFPR are very low. We argue that the most likely explanation for this difference is cultural forces in the respective communities which either encourage or discourage women from working. We find support for this idea from LFPR data within subsectors of the two groups, Bedouin women living in the south of Israel, and Jewish women born in the land of Israel.

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1955-2017 年以色列女性劳动力参与率

摘要 本文回顾了 1955 年至 2017 年以色列犹太和阿拉伯妇女的女性劳动力参与率 (LFPR)。该评论的一个发现是，女性犹太 LFPR 非常高，而女性阿拉伯 LFPR 非常低。我们认为，对这种差异的最可能解释是各自社区中鼓励或阻止妇女工作的文化力量。我们从两个群体（居住在以色列南部的贝都因妇女和出生在以色列土地的犹太妇女）的子部门内的 LFPR 数据中找到了对这一想法的支持。