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Refereed Articles  

  • Shavit, Y. 1984. "Tracking and ethnicity in Israeli secondary education". American Sociological Review, 49 (2): pp. 210-20. Also appeared in Ernest Krausz (ed.) Studies of Israeli Society. Vol. 4, 1988.
  • Shavit, Y., and Richard A. Williams. 1985. "Ability grouping and contextual determinants of educational expectations in Israel." American Sociological Review, 50 (1) pp. 62-74.
  • Shavit, Y. and Hemda Arad Weiss. 1987. “Ethnic Integration and Inequality in Grades and Aspirations.” Megamot, 30 (3): pp. 288-304. (in Hebrew).
  • Shavit, Y., and David L. Featherman. 1988. "Schooling, tracking and teenage intelligence." Sociology of Education, 61 (1): pp. 42-51.
  • Shavit, Y., and Arye Rattner. 1988. "Age, crime, and the early life course." American Journal of Sociology, 93 (6): pp. 1457-71.
  • Shavit, Y., 1989. "Tracking and the educational spiral: a comparison of Arab and Jewish educational expansion in Israel." Comparative Education Review, 33 (2): pp. 216-31. Also appeared in A. Yogev (ed.) Educational Expansion in Israel, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University and Massada. pp. 69-79. (in Hebrew).
  • Shavit, Y., and Vered Kraus. 1990. "Educational transitions in Israel: a test of the industrialization and credentialization hypotheses." Sociology of Education, 63 (1): pp. 133 - 141. Also appeared in Hebrew in A. Yogev (ed.) Educational Expansion in Israel, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University and Massada. pp.17-28. (in Hebrew).
  • Shavit, Y., 1990. "Segregation, tracking and the educational attainment of minorities: Arabs and Oriental Jews in Israel." American Sociological Review, 55 (1): pp. 115-26.
  • Shavit, Y., and Jennifer L. Pierce. 1991. "Sibship size and educational attainment in nuclear and extended families: Arabs and Jews in Israel." American Sociological Review, 56 (3): pp. 321-31.
  • Shavit, Y., 1992. "Tracking and the persistence of ethnic occupational inequalities in Israel." International Perspectives on Education and Society2. JAI Press. pp. 21-37.
  • Shavit,Y., 1992. "Arabs in the Israeli economy: A study of the enclave hypothesis." Israel Social Science Research, 7 (1 and 2): pp. 45-66.
  • H-P. Blossfeld and Y. Shavit. 1992. Ostacoli permanenti: le diseguaglianze di instruzione in tredici paesi." Polis , VI (1): pp. 147-179. Also appeared as: "Dauerhafte Ungleichheiten - Zur Varaenderung des Einflusses der sozialen Herkunft auf die Bildungschancen in dreizehn industrialisierten Laendern." in Zeitschrift fuer Paedogodik, 1993 (1), and as “Persisting barriers: changes in educational opportunities in thirteen countries.” pp. 1-24 in Y. Shavit and H-P. Blossfeld (eds.) Persistent Inequalities: a Comparative Study of Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Boulder Colorado: Westview Press.
  • Erez, Yossi, Y. Shavit and Dorit Zur. 1993. “Is there ethnic inequality in promotion in the Israeli military?” Megaot, 35 (1): pp. 23-37 (in Hebrew).
  • Stier, Haya, and Y. Shavit. 1994. "Age-at-marriage, sex-ratios and ethnic intermarriage." European Sociological Review, 10 (1): pp.79-87.
  • Shavit, Y., Claude S. Fischer, Yael Koresh. 1994. "Kin and Nonkin under collective threat: Israelis during the Gulf War." Social Forces, 72 (June): pp. 1197-1215.
  • Fischer, Claude S., and Y. Shavit. 1995. "National Differences in network density: Israel and the United States." Social Networks, 17 (2): pp. 129-145.
  • Arum, Richard, and Y. Shavit. 1995. "Vocational education and the transition of men and women from school to work." Sociology of Education, 68 (3): pp.187-204.
  • Shavit, Y. and Haya Stier. 1997. “Ethnic and educational assortative mating in Israel: changes over time.” Megamot, 38 (2): pp. 207-225. (in Hebrew).
  • Shavit, Y. and K. Westerbeek. 1997. "Istruzione e stratificazione in Italia: riforme, espansione e ugudaglianza delle opportunita” Polis 11 (April): pp. 91-109.
  • Shavit, Y., and K. Westerbeek. 1998. "Educational stratification in Italy: reforms, expansion and equality of opportunity." European Sociological Review, 14 (1): pp. 33-47.
  • Katz-Gerro, Tally, and Y. Shavit. 1998. "The stratification of leisure and taste: classes and lifestyles in Israel." European Sociological Review, 14 (4): 369-86. Also appeared in Soziologia Israelit 1 (1). (in Hebrew).
  • Mueller, Walter, and Y. Shavit. 1998. "Bildung und Beruf im institutionellen Kontext: Eune vergleichende Studie in 13 L ä ndern " Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft, 1 (4): 501-33. Also appeared in English as: “The institutional embeddedness of the stratification process: a Comparative Study of Qualifications and Occupations in 13 Countries” in Patrick Werquin, Richard Breen and Jordi Planas (eds.) Youth Transitions in Europe: Theories and Evidence. Marseille: Cereq, and as Chapter 1 in Shavit, Yossi and Walter Mueller (eds.) 1998. From School to Work: A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Shavit, Y., Yinon Cohen, Haya Stier, and Svetlana Bolotin. 1999. “Ethnic inequality in university education in Israel .” Jewish Journal of Sociology, 41 (1 and 2): pp. 5-23. Also appeared in M. Mautner Haluka ve-Haluka MeHadash. 2000. Ramot: Tel Aviv. (in Hebrew).
  • Shavit, Y. and W. Mueller. 2000. "Vocational Education: When diversion and when safety net?" European Societies, 2 (1): pp. 29-50.
  • Svetlana Bolotin-Chachashvili, Y. Shavit and H. Ayalon. 2002. “Expansion and Equality in Israeli Higher Education.” Soziologia Israelit, 4 (2): 317-345 (in Hebrew).
  • Ayalon, Hanna, and Y. Shavit. 2004. “ Educational reforms and inequalities in Israel: the MMI Hypothesis revisited.” Sociology of Education 77 (2): 103-120.
  • Shwed, Uri, and Y. Shavit. 2006. “ The Occupational and Economic Attainments of College and University Graduates in Israel.” European Sociological Review 22 (4): 431-442. 
  • בר חיים, אייל, מאיר יעיש ויוסי שביט. 2008. "במעלה המדרגות היורדות: התרחבות וריבוד במערכות חינוך" סוציולוגיה ישראלית. 
  • Gabay-Egozi, Limor, Y. Shavit and Meir Yaish. 2009. "Curricular choice: A test of a rational choice model of education." European Sociological Review
  • Gordoni, Galit, Anat Oren and Yossi Shavit. forthcoming. "Coverage Bias in Telephone Surveys in Israel." Field Methods.

Chapters in Books 

  • Shavit, Y., Judah Matras, and David L. Featherman. 1990. “Job shifts in the career beginnings of Israeli men.” Pp.53-68 In Karl U. Mayer and Nancy Tuma (eds.) Applications of Event History Analysis in Life Course Research. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
     
  • Shavit, Y. 1993. "From peasants to proletariates: stability in the educational attainment process of Arabs in Israel." Pp. 337-349 in Y. Shavit and H-P Blossfeld (eds.) Persistent Inequalities: a Comparative Study of Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Boulder Colorado, Westview Press.
     
  • Blossfeld, Hans-Peter and Yossi Shavit. 1993. "Persisting barriers: changes in educational opportunities in thirteen countries". Pp. 1-23 in Y. Shavit and H-P Blossfeld (eds.) Persistent Inequalities: a Comparative Study of Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Boulder Colorado, Westview Press.
      
  • Shavit, Y., and H-P. Blossfeld. 1996. "The equalization of educational opportunity: do gender and class compete?" pp. 233-253 in J. Jonsson and R. Erikson (eds.) Can Education be Equalized? The Swedish Case in Comparative Perspective. Boulder Colorado: Westview Press.
     
  • Kraus, Vered, Y. Shavit and M. Yaish. 1998. "Gender and ethnic differences in the transition from school to work in Israel." pp. 221-251 in Y. Shavit and W. Mueller (eds.) From School to Work: A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
     
  • Shavit, Y., and Walter Mueller. 2000. “ Vocational secondary education, tracking and occupational attainment in a comparative perspective.” Pp. 437-52 In Maureen T. Hallinan (ed.) Handbook on Sociology of Education. New York: Plenum Publishing.
     
  • Shavit, Y. and E. Tamir. 2002. “I sistemi di istruzione e la diseguaglianza sociale.” Pp. 123-136 in G. Bettin Lattes (ed.) Mutanmenti in Europa. Bologna: Monduzzi Editore.
     
  • Shavit, Y. and Haya Stier. 2003. “Two decades of educational homogamy in Israel.” Pp. 315-330 in H-P. Blossfeld and A. Timm (eds.) Who marries whom? Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies.  Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • שביט, י., ח. איילון, ג. מנחם, ס. בולוטין-צ'צ'שווילי וע. תמיר. 2006. 'שינוי וריבוד במערכת ההשכלה הגבוהה בישראל' בספרם של אורי כהן, אליעזר בן-רפאל, אבי בראלי ואפרים יער (עורכים), ישראל והמודרניות: אסופת מאמרים לכבודו של משה ליסק, המרכז למורשת בן-גוריון, קריית שדה בוקר: הוצאת הספרים של אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב.
      
  • Shavit, Y., S. Bolotin-Chachashvili, H. Ayalon and Gila Menahem. 2007. “Diversification, expansion and inequality in Israeli higher education.” Pp. 39-62 in Y. Shavit, R. Arum, A. Gamoran and G. Menahem, (eds.), Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
     
  • Tsai, Shu-Ling and Y. Shavit. Forthcoming. 2007. “Higher education in Taiwan: expansion and inequality of educational opportunity." Pp. 140-164 in Y. Shavit, R. Arum, A. Gamoran and G. Menahem, (eds.), Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
     
  • Arum, R., A. Gamoran and Y. Shavit. 2007. "Expansion, differentiation, privatization and inequality in higher education." Pp. 1-38 in Y. Shavit, R. Arum, A. Gamoran and G. Menahem, (eds.), Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. An earlier version appeared in Italian as: Arum, Richard, Adam Gamoran and Yossi Shavit. 2006. "Più inclusione che deviazione: espansione, differenziazione e struttura di mercato dell'instruzione superiore." Pp. 91-136 in Gabriele Ballarino and Daniele Checchi (eds.) Sistema Scolastico e disuguaglianza Sociale: Scelte Individuali e Vincoli Strutturali. Bologna: Il Mulino.
     
  • Stier, H., and Y. Shavit. Forthcoming. 2007. “ Age at marriage, sex-ratios, and ethnic heterogamy”. Chapter 7 in J. Anson and J. Schellekens (eds.) Israel's Destiny: Fertility and Mortality in a Divided Society. Schnitzer Studies in Israeli Society, Volume 12, Publication Series of the Israel Sociological Society.
     
  • Y. Shavit, M. Yaish and E. Bar-Haim. 2007. “The persistence of persistent inequality.” in Markus Gangl, Reinhard Pollak, Gunnar Otte and Stefani Scherer (eds.) Social Stratification, Education and the Life Course.
  • Shavit, Y., N. Lewin-Epstein and I. Adler. 2007 “Instant absorption of immigrants and persistent exclusion of Arab citizens in Israel” Pp. 319-356 in Anthony F. Heath, Sin Yi Cheung, with Shawna N. Smith, (eds.) Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities In Western Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chachashvili-Bolotin Svetlana, Yossi Shavit and Hanna Ayalon. 2007. "Immigration of 90th from the FSU as one of the main factors of the educational reform in Israel" in Moshe Kenigshtein (ed.), Immigration from the FSU. Gesharim Press. (in Russian).

Other Publications 

  • Shavit, Y. 1988. Review of: Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market, by Moshe Semyonov and Noah Lewin-Epstein. Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, 1987. in Contemporary Sociology.
  • Shavit, Y. 1991. Review of: Schools as Sorters: Lewis M. Terman, Applied Psychology, and the Intelligence Testing Movement, 1890-1930, by Paul Davis Chapman. New York: New York University Press, 1988. in Contemporary Sociology.
  • Shavit, Y., and K. Westerbeek. 1996. "Stratification in Italy: an investigation of failed reforms." EUI Working Paper SPS No. 96/1. European University Institute.
  • Shavit, Y. Review of Th. Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class. in Soziologia Israelit, 2 (1). 
  • Shavit, Y. 2006. “Educational Inequality” in G. Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell.
  • Shavit, Y., E. Yaar, T. Herman and I. Adler. 2006. “Israeli Public Opinion Regarding the War in Lebanon.” No. 11 in Public Opinion. A publication of the B.I. and Lucille Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research, Tel Aviv University. 

In Preparation and Under Review 

  • Eyal Bar Haim, Y. Shavit and H. Ayalon. "Expansion and stratification in education."
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