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As the methodology of population surveys establishes itself in a growing number of countries, multinational comparative surveys are becoming the primary mode of comparative research. This paper presents to the reader the ISSP which is an ongoing international collaboration currently encompassing institutions from 46 countries, all committed to comparative survey research. The ISSP collaboration is rather unique in adopting a very democratic and participatory model for its development of survey topics and questionnaire design. Following a description of the ISSP and its model of operation the advantages as well as shortcomings of this model and discussed. The second part of the paper illustrates the working of the ISSP while focusing on a module on health and health policy which will be fielded by the ISSP for the first time in 2011. The development of the module is used as illustration of ISSP procedures and introduces the potential user to ISSP data that will be made public in a couple of years.

The labor market for youth is conceptualized as corresponding closely to residential areas, with employment opportunities varying considerably across labor markets. A multivariate model is used to estimate the impact of population size, racial composition, number & size of businesses, & other ecological characteristics on the ratio of youths to jobs in 74 neighborhood communities in Chicago, Ill, in 1980. The findings underscore the role of racial segregation on job opportunities & illustrate the function of small firms in mediating this effect & expanding opportunities for youth. 2 Tables, 26 References. Modified HA

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Past Insights and Future Directions: Studies of Stratification in Israel -- Part 1: The Role of Education in the Stratification Process -- 1. Second Generation Jewish Immigrants in Israel: Have the Ethnic Gaps in Schooling and Earnings Declined? -- 2. Segregation, Tracking, and the Educational Attainment of Minorities: Arabs and Oriental Jews in Israel -- 3. Exploring the Persistence of Academic Achievement Gaps: Social Differentials in Family Resource Returns in Israel -- 4. Concentrated Disadvantage and Access to Educational Credentials in Arab and Jewish Localities in Israel -- Part 2: Class and Intergenerational Process -- 5. Class Structure in Israel: From Statehood to the 1980s -- 6. Class Mobility in Israeli Society: A Comparative Perspective -- 7. The Transformation of the Kibbutz: From a Classless to a Class Society -- 8. The Impact of Parental Transfers on Living Standards of Married Children -- Part 3: The Ethnic Organization of the Labor Market -- 9. Expanding the Split Labor Market Theory: Between and within Sectors of the Split Labor Market of Mandatory Palestine -- 10. The Power and Limits of Ethnonationalism: Palestinians and Eastern Jews in Israel, 1974-1991 -- 11. Incorporation without Integration: Palestinian Citizens in Israel's Labor Market -- 12. Migration Regimes, Intra-State Conflicts, and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State -- Part 4: Gender in the Stratification Process -- 13. Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces -- 14. Earnings Gaps between Israel's Native-Born Men and Women: 1982-1993 -- 15. Job Search, Gender, and the Quality of Employment in Israel

In this study, we merge the literature on homeownership regimes, which focuses to a lesser extent on the consequences of wealth and social inequality, with the literature on wealth and social stratification, which overlooks the importance of homeownership regimes in contributing to those inequalities. Within this framework, we examine to what extent homeownership regimes shape class inequality in homeownership among young adults and the mortgage debt burden that usually accompanies it. We first develop an updated typology of homeownership regimes that incorporates the role of the family via intergenerational wealth transfers (IWT) such as gifts and housing assets. This dimension was theoretically underdeveloped and empirically absent from previous homeownership typologies. Second, we employ this typology to investigate class-based gaps in homeownership and mortgage debt burden within and between homeownership regimes. This is done by pooling data for a total of 20 countries from two sources: the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2013–2014 (EuroStat) for EU countries, and the Household Expenditure Survey 2012–2013 (CBS) for Israel. Using multivariate modeling, we find that homeownership regimes in which IWT in the form of financial support is common practice increase class inequality in homeownership compared to regimes in which IWT of assets is common practice. Contrary to the literature suggesting that liberal mortgage markets advance inclusion, it appears that in the homeownership regime characterized by the most liberal housing finance system (which includes Northern European countries and the Netherlands), class inequality in mortgaged homeownership is the widest but class inequality in mortgage debt burden is the narrowest. Homeownership regimes characterized by IWT of assets (which include Southern and Central Eastern European countries) reveal the opposite patterns. We discuss the implications of our findings for the literature on homeownership regimes and wealth inequality, with a specific focus on young adults.