Labor Market Database:  Israel 2009
Table 1: Unemployment rates
	Overall	Men	Women	Mizrahim*	Ashkenazim**	Arab Citizens***
1990	9.6	8.4	11.3	15.8	5.9	10.6
1991	10.6	8.6	13.4	15.0	5.7	10.4
1992	11.2	9.2	13.9	15.0	6.1	12.4
1993	10.0	8.5	12.1	13.2	4.9	13.5
1994	7.8	6.2	10.0	10.5	4.2	9.0
1995	6.9	5.6	8.6	8.8	3.6	7.0
1996	6.7	5.8	7.8	9.0	4.7	6.2
1997	7.7	6.8	8.8	10.3	4.7	8.1
1998	8.5	8.0	9.2	10.5	5.3	10.7
1999	8.9	8.5	9.4	11.2	5.4	11.4
2000	8.8	8.4	9.2	10.6	5.6	11.9
2001	9.4	8.9	9.9	10.8	6.7	10.6
2002	10.3	10.1	10.6	11.1	7.0	13.4
2003	10.7	10.2	11.3	12.8	7.5	11.5
2004	10.4	9.5	11.4	11.9	7.5	10.8
2005	9.0	8.5	11.4	10.1	6.6	11.3
2006	8.4	7.9	9.0	9.4	5.6	11.5
2007	7.3	6.8	7.9	7.5	5.0	10.9
2008	6.1	5.7	6.5	6.7	4.5	8.5
2009	7.6	7.6	7.6	n.a	n.a	n.a

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2008
Table 2: Long-term unemployment, discouraged workers, involuntary part time and underemployment
	Long-term	Discouraged Workers	Involuntary part-time
	unemployment		as percent of those who worked
	percentage of civilian labor force	percentage of civilian labor force	usually part-time
1990	4.9	n.a	11.1
1991	6.0	n.a	12.9
1992	6.3	n.a	17.2
1993	5.4	n.a	17.7
1994	4.2	n.a	16.0
1995	3.2	n.a	14.0
1996	3.0	n.a	13.3
1997	3.4	n.a	15.1
1998	3.9	n.a	17.9
1999	4.1	n.a	18.9
2000	4.4	1.4 (between 4/2000-12/2000)	18.9
2001	4.3	1.5	19.3
2002	4.8	1.7	24.0
2003	5.5	2.0	28.4
2004	5.4	2.4	28.5
2005	4.7	2.3	26.8
2006	4.6	1.9	23.0
2007	3.8	1.6	20.7
2008	2.8	1.5	19.9
LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT -PERSONS WHO DIDN'T WORK IN ISRAEL DURING THE LAST 12 MONTHS.
DISCOURAGED WORKERS - PERSONS WHO ARE NOT IN WEEKLY CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE BUT SOUGHT WORK OVER 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE SURVEY.
INVOLUNTARY PART TIME - PERSONS WHO SOUGHT, BUT DID NOT FIND, ADDITIONAL OR FULL-TIME WORK.

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2008
Table 3: Average hourly earnings, production workers
	Skilled workers in industry and construction
	and other skilled workers
	Local currency - NIS (New Israeli Shekel)	$
	at current prices	at current prices
1990	11.4	5.65
1991	13.0	5.70
1992	15.0	6.10
1993	14.8	5.23
1994	17.1	5.68
1995	18.7	6.21
1996	20.7	6.49
1997	24.4	7.07
1998	26.6	7.00
1999	28.4	6.86
2000	29.3	7.19
2001	30.5	7.25
2002	30.5	6.44
2003	31.6	6.95
2004	30.4	6.78
2005	30.8	6.86
2006	30.9	6.93
2007	33.4	8.13
2008	28.4	7.92

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2009
Table 4: GDP and population growth
	GDP	Population	GDP growth
	% change	growth rate	per capita
	percentages	percentages	percentages
1990	6.6	5.7	3.4
1991	6.1	4.9	-0.1
1992	7.2	2.7	3.5
1993	3.8	2.5	1.1
1994	7.0	2.7	4.3
1995	6.5	2.6	3.7
1996	5.6	2.6	3.0
1997	2.9	2.5	0.3
1998	4.3	2.4	1.8
1999	3.3	2.8	0.7
2000	9.2	2.6	6.4
2001	0.0	2.2	-2.4
2002	-0.7	1.9	-2.6
2003	1.5	1.8	-0.3
2004	5.0	1.8	3.2
2005	5.1	1.8	3.3
2006	5.3	1.8	3.4
2007	5.2	1.8	3.4
2008	4.0	1.8	2.2
2009	0.7	*1.8	-1.1
*ESTIMATE

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2008
Table 5: Poverty rates
	Poverty rate (%)
	after social security transfers and deduction of direct taxes
	families	persons	children
1990	14.3	16.9	22.3
1991	14.9	16.2	19.4
1992	16.4	17.2	21.3
1993	16.7	17.6	22.1
1994	18.0	18.0	22.8
1995	16.8	17.7	23.2
1996	16.0	16.5	21.4
1997	16.4	17.8	22.7
1998	17.5	18.2	22.8
1999	17.8	18.8	24.9
2000	17.6	18.8	25.2
2001	17.7	19.6	26.9
2002*	17.7	20.0	28.1
2002	18.1	21.1	29.6
2003*	19.2	21.5	29.4
2003	19.3	22.4	30.8
2004*	20.3	23.2	32.5
2004	20.3	23.6	33.2
2004/2005	20.5	24.1	34.1
2005	20.6	24.7	35.2
2005/06	20.3	23.6	33.2
2006	20.0	24.5	35.8
2006/07	20.5	24.7	35.9
2007	18.4	19.5	26.4
2007/08	20.0	23.6	34.1
2008	19.9	23.7	34.0
* NOT INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2008
Table 6:Income distribution by quintile
	1990 Income	1995 Income	2000 Income	2005 Income	2008 Income
Quintile	distribution	distribution	distribution	distribution	distribution
Top	40.3	43.0	44.5	44.7	45.0
Fourth	23.5	23.1	22.9	23.0	22.8
Middle	17.0	16.1	15.6	15.7	15.6
Second	12.1	11.3	10.8	10.6	10.5
Lowest	7.2	6.5	6.2	6.0	6.0
* INCOME BEFORE TAXES AND SOCIAL SECURITY TRANSFERS.

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2003
Table 7: Unionization rates for all workers
	Union	Coverage (%)
	1980	80%
	1990	65%
	2000	45%
	2003	40%

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2009
Table 8: Maximum legal working time
	Legal
	working time
2009	45 hrs/wk

Labor Market Database:  Israel 2008
Table 9: Minimum wage rates
	Minimum	wage/hr
	PPP's ($)
	April 1999	4.1
	April 2000	4.2
	April 2001	4.9
	April 2002	5.1
	January 2003	5.3
	January 2004	5.5
	January 2005	4.8
	April 2006	5.0
	June 2006	5.2
	April 2007	5.5
	July 2008	5.8

 CONVERTED TO US$ USING OECD PPP.