Abstract

Social scientists around the world have acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic has unequal effects on different socio-economic groups, potentially deepening existing inequalities between groups. COVID-19 exposes and reinforces existing socioeconomic inequality in terms of employment opportunities and earnings, especially among women and ethnic minorities. In this paper, we provide some preliminary analyses of how the pandemic-induced economic downtown have had different effects on Palestinian men and women and different effects on religious subgroups within the Palestinian community residing in Israel.