Bracha Berlin

Researcher, Employment Team (Systems Group)

Employment

Researcher, Employment Team, Systems Group, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israel’s leading center for applied social research.

Bracha Berlin has worked at MJB since 2022. Her main area of research is the Bedouin population in the Negev, with the focus on barriers to and attitudes about employment in the Bedouin population and the setting of goals and formulation of an effective policy for its integration in the labor market.

Bracha holds a BA in Philosophy, Economics and Political Science (PEP program) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently working toward her MA in Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bracha can be contacted by email at [email protected].

Employment

Policy Tools for Addressing Employment Instability
Bracha Berlin, Oren Tirosh, Smadar Somekh
2023

This document includes a short description of the phenomenon of employment instability, around the world and in Israel, as it is manifested in general and among specific populations. In addition, it includes a review of policy tools for addressing this issue, classified into two groups: tools geared toward the individual employee and tools geared toward the employer.

Children, Youth and Young Adults

Employment

Quality Assurance

Mothers of young children during the 2023 Israel-Hamas War: Experiences, needs, and responses
Prof. Bruce Rosen, Dr. Lior Beserman Navon, Dr. Yoa Sorek, Bracha Berlin, Dr. Rinat Cohen, Merav Borenstein Gabai
2023

On October 7, approximately 300,000 reservists were called up by the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). During the first week of war, schools and pre-schools all over the country were closed and even a month after the outbreak of the war schools in many parts of the country had not returned to their routines. All over […]

Arab Population

Employment

Employment Patterns and Barriers to Employment in the Bedouin Population in the Negev: Summative Evaluation Study
Oren Tirosh, Dana Cohen, Bracha Berlin, Ayelet Levi-Kovshi, Smadar Somekh
2023

The overarching goal of this study was to identify sociocultural factors that contribute to employment barriers and affect the employment patterns of the Bedouin population in the Negev.