Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game (with Besiana Balla, Devika Dutt, Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen, Lilian Rolim, and Reinhard Schumacher) Institute for New Economic Thinking March 11th, 2019.

I partnered with Kav LaOved, the leading worker's rights NGO in Israel, to harness data analysis tools to promote worker's rights in Israel, with a focus on the most marginalized groups.

Reports on Enforcement: Who Protects the Workers? (in Hebrew) 2020 , 2021

We established an annual report tracking the State's Labor Law enforcement activities in the years 2016-2021 , analyzing enforcement intensity (or lack thereof) by secotr, occupation, citizenship status and other demographic characteristics. We also examined which labor rights are enforced and which neglected. 

Press coverage: Calcalist , Globes

Covid-19: Who are the essential workers most at risk of infection? (in Hebrew)

The report characterizes the essential workers at risk of Coronavirus infection in terms of their employment conditions and demographics. The report also examined whether or not these workers have been compensated for the heavy burden they are carrying. Data showed that essential workers are often placed at risk of contracting COVID-19 due to the nature of their work and are often low-income workers. In fact, the lower the wage, the greater the exposure to risk. For example, our research showed that hourly workers are more likely to be infected with the Coronavirus than full-time workers. The fact that essential workers already come from the most vulnerable populations in Israeli society was a common thread running through the data analyzed as well.

The report was presented to the Knesset (parliament) Labor and Welfare committee session on essential workers' eligibility for sick leave pay.

Press coverage (Hebrew): Calcalist , Davar1

Child support payments are one of the most important components in ensuring a stable life for children and preventing poverty following divorce. In Israel, child support is determined according to the couple’s personal law (religious law). In January 2021 the Ministry of Justice opened a public consultation to redesign child support guidelines separately from religious law. I partnered with the Rackman Center for the Promotion of the Status of Women and Prof. Daniel Gottlieb, to submit a new theoretical and empirical framework to create child support guidelines that ensure decent living conditions for children and their carer and acknowledge the role of care work in determining parents labor market outcomes, before and after divorce.

Our proposal was partially accepted as the decent living condition criteria was included in the drafted legislation. I am currently advising the Ministry of Justice on the implementation of this measure.

Policy paper (Hebrew)

Slides (English)

Podcast episode (Hebrew)

I serve as a member of the Joint Task Force: Regularization of Work in the Domestic Sphere in Israel (2022) convened by the Israeli National Economic Council. The task force met for nine month to develop policy tool to regularize domestic work and improve domestic workers access to their statutory rights. The committee brought together government agencies, civil society organizations and academic experts, including myself.

In addition to be a task force member, I submitted to the task force a report of analyzing the composition and characteristics of domestic workers in Israel as well as a comparative analysis of their status in Israel compared to other middle and high income countries.

Full report (Hebrew) 

Neoliberal reforms to the welfare system are  highly contested for weakening the operation of social services, deprofessionalizing frontline social work and abandoning goals of social justice. This line of thought has progressed significantly over the last two decades, forming a renewed critical framework in social welfare literature as well as alternative practices for working with marginalized people, based on structural interpretation of their distress, solidarity, and intensive support. In light of this growing critique, over the last eight years, the Israeli welfare ministry adopted the critical professional framework of the Poverty Aware Paradigm (PAP, Krumer-Nevo, 2016) to lead its intervention programs for people living in poverty (Krumer-Nevo, 2023). 

Together with Shachar Timor-Shlevin we produced a report for the Welfare Ministry outlining policy evaluation procedures to estimate the socio-economic impacts of PAP interventions.

Full report (Hebrew)