Discrimination
There are many different types of discrimination that exist in the labor market today. There is ethnic discrimination as well as other discrimination like gender discrimination. Kenneth Arrow, the Nobel Prize winner, defined discrimination as "the valuation in the market place of personal characteristics of the worker that are unrelated to productivity" (Anonymous). Harassment can also be racial in nature or can be gender oriented. Harassment in the labor market would be the act of tormenting someone by continued and persistent criticism and attacks. Discrimination however is the unfair treatment given to people or group on the basis of prejudice.
A group of 14 people from seven different European country visited Israel/Palestine for five days in 2004 to investigate and look in to the labor situation of the Palestinian workers present within Israel and the Occupied Territories. It is known that the labor market in Israel as well as Palestine is highly unstable and the unemployment rate is very high. About 57% of the population that is of the working age forms the part of the labor force. In European countries this figure rises to about 67%. The economy of the Occupied Territory relies on the citizens to find job and be employed in Israel. Arabs form 20% of the population of Israel and mostly live in secluded villages where they do not have any industries or large organizations. Their unemployment is 1.5 times greater than the entire nation. Israel has been making plans to increase this percentage greatly:
'As part of the policy of directing populations toward the labor market and toward a transition from welfare to labor and following the reforms in income supplement and child allowances, the 2004 budget proposes several measures that are intended to create motivation to work and to increase the percentage of people participating in the labor market." (Finance Ministry)
It has been seen that for the Arab workers,...
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