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Income Inequality
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Current Lab Members
Tali Kristal
Principal investigator
Tali Kristal is Professor of Sociology at University of Haifa. The central focus of her research is on how and why positions in the economy such as organizations, industries, occupations, classes, and the relations between them, shape the evolution of economic inequality, and how these vary across time and countries. In a current research project funded by the ERC she examines the dynamics between technology and politics in producing economic inequality.
Recent publications include “Computers and the Decline of American Unions” (Work and Occupations 2019), “Computers Meet Politics at the Wage Structure” (Socio-Economic Review forthcoming), “Workplace Compensation Practices and the Rise in Benefit Inequality” (American Sociological Review 2020), and “Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020).
Email: kristal@soc.haifa.ac.il
Tom Baz
Project manager
Tom Baz is a research assistant in the Income Inequality Lab, and an M.A. student in Sociology at Tel Aviv University, researching environmental NGOs through big data methods and text analysis. He holds a Master's in Philosophy from the Hebrew University.
Email: tbaz@univ.haifa.ac.il
Dan Manor
Lab manager
Dan Manor is the Income Inequality Lab manager. He obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Psychology, both from the University of Haifa.
He is interested in data analysis, data science, python, natural language processing and AI in general.
Email: dmanor@univ.haifa.ac.il
Ludmila (Luda) Garmash
Postdoc
Ludmila (Luda) Garmash is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Income Inequality Lab. Her research focuses on the sociology of work, organizational demography, and the mechanisms of economic stratification both within and between workplaces. She is particularly interested in how gender, ethno-national identity, and class divisions intersect in organizational settings. Currently, her projects investigate the relationships between income segregation and workplace segregation, as well as their broader socio-economic consequences. Additionally, she examines the spatial and demographic dimensions involved in the generation and reproduction of inequality.
Email: garmash83@gmail.com
Tania Azzam
Postdoc
Daniel Rak-Yahalom
M.Sc. Student
Daniel Rak-Yahalom is a research assistant in the Income Inequality Lab, and in the LGBT history research team in the department of sociology. Holds a B.A. in economics and Jewish History from the University of Haifa and studying in the graduate program for Environmental Economics in the Hebrew University. A graduate of Tarbut college for artist-educators through the musicians course.
Email: dyahalom@staff.haifa.ac.il
Gal Barby
M.Sc. Student
Gal Barby is a research assistant in the Income Inequality Lab, and a Master's student in Economics at the University of Haifa, currently writing a thesis in behavioral economics.
He holds a B.A. in Statistics and Economics.
He specializes in data analysis, statistical modeling, and the development of interactive dashboards and data tools using R and Shiny.
Email: galbarby10@gmail.com
Peleg Lavi
M.A. Student
Majduline Saeid
B.A. Student
Majduline Saeid is a research assistant in the Income Inequality Lab. Second year student in the B.A sociology program at the University of Haifa. Current areas of interest are political sociology, the politics of identity and ethnicity.
Email: majdulinesaeid@gmail.com
Alina Rozenfeld-Kiner
PhD candidate
Alina Rozenfeld-Kiner is PhD Candidate in sociology at University of Haifa. Her dissertation deals with the relation between human resource management practices and organizational level income inequality. Previous research examined the polarization of the Israeli employment in the past few decades. Research interests are economic sociology, inequality and stratification, management and control of work.
Email: alinakin1990@gmail.com
Adena Whitec
PhD candidate
Adena White is a doctoral candidate at the University of Haifa. She is currently researching individual beliefs and practices surrounding technology-enabled connectivity to work with a focus on strategies used to reduce, manage, or mitigate incoming digital information. She holds an MBA from Ben Gurion University and a BA from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
Email: white.adena@gmail.com
Ludmila Garmash
PhD candidate
Ludmila Garmash is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Haifa University. Her main research interest is the reproduction of class, ethnic and gender inequalities within and between work organizations. Her current research investigates patterns and trends in social groups representation within and across workplaces in Israel and the dynamics of wage inequalities associated with it.
Email: garmash83@gmail.com
Shahar Dangur-Levy
Project Coordinator
Shahar Dangur-Levy is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at Western University. Her dissertation examines the effects of teachers' emphasis on mathematics on students' mathematics self-efficacy, with a focus on gender and socioeconomic background. Her research interest lies with social stratification, sociology of education, and human agency with a particular interest in self-efficacy.
Email: sdangur@uwo.ca
Matan Kaminer
Post-doctoral fellow
Matan Kaminer received his PhD. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 2019. He studies the relationship between Thai migrant workers and their Israeli employers on farms in Israel's Arabah and beyond, and is working with Dr. Tali Kristal on a review of recent writings on labor and automation. Beginning fall 2020 he will be a member of the Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University.
Email: matan.kaminer@gmail.com
Project Alumni
Sussane Edler
Post-doctoral fellow
Susanne Edler is a postdoc assistant at the Université de Fribourg where she is giving lectures on Social Stratification and Empirical Social Research and doing research on work and organization. Her current research examines wage inequalities due technological change and processes of social closure in the labor market. Until 2020 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC-funded project “The Resurgence in Wage Inequality and Technological Change: A New Approach” at the University of Haifa. As Ph.D. student she worked in the Collaborative Research Center 882 (CRC882) at the Bielefeld University and has been the recipient of the mobility grant from the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology for a 6 months research stay at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Email: susanne.edler@unifr.ch
Efrat Herzberg-Druker
Post-doctoral fellow
Efrat Herzberg-Druker is a lecturer (tenure-track) in the Labor Studies department at Tel-Aviv University. Before joining the department, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa in the ERC funded project " The Resurgence in Wage Inequality and Technological Change: A New Approach" (2017-2020) and a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology department and Center of Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2018-2019). Her research interest lies in the field of stratification and inequality, with a focus on labor markets. Specifically, she focuses mainly on the relations between family demography and income inequality and gender inequality in labor markets. Her work has been published in Social Science Research and Social Indicators Research.
Email: efrather@tauex.tau.ac.il
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