Prof. Nonna Kushnirovich

Head, Research Authority
Faculty of Management & Economics
Prof. Nonna Kushnirovich
nonna@ruppin.ac.il

Teaching

  • Macroeconomics A
  • Macroeconomics B
  • Economics of Immigration and Globalization
  • Environmental Economics
  • Labor Economics and Business Activity

Research

  • Economics of immigration
  • Labor migration
  • Ethnic economy
  • Labor economics
  • Entrepreneurship of minorities
  • Financial funding of businesses

Publications

Kushnirovich, N. (2007). Immigrant women’s entrepreneurship. Sociological Papers, 12: 103 – 117. ​

​Heilbrunn, S. and Kushnirovich, N. (2007). Immigrant and indigenous enterprises: similarities and differences​. International Journal of Business Performance Management. 9 (3): 344 – 361. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPM.2007.013312​

Kushnirovich, N. and Heilbrunn, S. (2008). Financial funding of immigrant business​. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 13 (2): 167–184. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1084946708000910​

​​Heilbrunn, S. and Kushnirovich, N. (2008). Impac​t of ethnicity on financing of immigrant businesses​. International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2 (2): 146– 159. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2008.016623

Kushnirovich, N. and Heilbrunn, S. (2008). The impact of policy on immigrant entrepreneurship and businesses practice in Israel. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21 (7): 693 – 703. ​

Kushnirovich, N. (2009). Policy for supporting business minorities: A study of women and immigrant entrepreneurs. International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 7 (4): 394 – 408. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMED.2009.026306​

Kushnirovich, N. (2010). Ethnic niches and immigrants’ integration​. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 30 (7/8): 412-426. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443331011060751​

Heilbrunn, S., Kushnirovich, N., and Zeltzer-Zubida, A. (2010). Barriers to immigrants’ integration into the labor market: Modes and coping​. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34: 244–252. doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.02.008​

Kushnirovich, N. (2010). Social capital and its influence on financing and profitability of small-scale enterprises (Israel experience). Economic Herald of the Donbas, Vol. 2 (20): 80-83. 

Kushnirovich, N. (2010). Migrant workers: Motives for migration, contingency of choice and willingness to remain in the host country. The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 10(3): 149-161.

Kushnirovich, N. (2011). Determinants of personal economic awareness. Economic Herald of the Donbas, 4 (26): 98-105. 

Kushnirovich, N., and Ribovsky, D. (2012). Determinants of volunteering and charitable giving. Economic Herald of the Donbas, 4 (30): 205-213. 

Kushnirovich, N. (2012). Social policy and labor migration: The Israeli case​. Demography and Social Economy, 1 (17): 87 - 93. 

Kushnirovich, N. and Heilbrunn, S. (2013). Inn​ovation and conformity: Intersection of gender and ethnicity in hi-tech organizations​. Journal of Management Development, 32 (2): 204 - 220. DOI: 10.1108/02621711311305700​​​

Kushnirovich, N. and Raijman, R. (2014). Recruitment practices of labour migrants in Israel: The case of the domestic care sector, in "Work and the Challenges of Belonging: Migrants in Globalizing Economies". Ed. by Mojca Pajnik and Floya Anthias. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 178-194

Heilbrunn, S. and Kushnirovich, N. (2015). Entrepreneurial finance of minority and migrant groups in Israel,​ in "International Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Finance". Ed. By Javed G. Hussain and Jonathan M. Scott: Edward Elgar, 166-184

Kushnirovich, N. (2015). Eco​nomi​c integr​​​a​tion of immigrant entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 3(3): 9-27. DOI:10.15678/EBER.2015.030302​

Kushnirovich N. (2016). Immigrant investo​rs i​n financial markets: Modes of financial behavior​. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 17(6): 992-1006. DOI: 10.3846/16111699.2016.1171253

Kushnirovich, N. and Youngmann, R. (2017). Paths t​​o success of Israeli immigrants from different countries of origin​. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 60: 51-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.07.002​

Kushnirovich, N., Raijman, R. and Barak, A. (2018). The impact of government regulation on recruitment process, rights, wages and working conditions of labor migrants in the Israeli construction sector. European Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12169. ​

Kushnirovich, N. and Sherman, A. (2018). Dimensions of life satisfaction: Immigrant and ethnic minorities. International Migration, 56 (3): 127-141. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12329

Jaffe, E. D., Kushnirovich, N. and Tsimerman, A. (2018). The impact of acculturation on immigrants’ business ethics attitudes​. Journal of Business Ethics, 147(4): 821-834. DOI 10.1007/s10551-017-3597-0​

Kushnirovich, N., Heilbrunn, S. and Davidovich, L. (2018). Diversity of entrepreneurial perceptions: Immigrants vs. native population. European Management Review, 15 (3): 341-355. DOI: 10.1111/emre.12105 ​

Kushnirovich, N. (2018). Wage gap paradox: The case of immigrants from the FSU in Israel. International Migration, 56 (5): 243-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.12490

Lissitsa, S. and Kushnirovich, N. (2018). Secondary transfer effect of positive and negative online contact between groups involved in high-intensity conflict​. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 67: 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.10.001​

Lissitsa, S. and Kushnirovich, N. (2019). Harnessing digital media in the fight against prejudice: Social contact and exposure to digital media solutions. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. DOI: 10.1177/1077699019837938

Kushnirovich, N. (2019). Labor market integration of skilled immigrants​. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 24 p. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018- 00648-7​

Lissitsa, S., and Kushnirovich, N. (2020). Is negative the new positive? Secondary transfer effect of exposure to LGBT portrayals in TV entertainment programs. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 50(2), 115-130. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12644

Youngmann, R., & Kushnirovich, N. (2020). Income as a resilience factor for the impact of discrimination and institutional unfairness on minorities’ emotional well-being. Social Science Research, 91, 102462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102462

​Lissitsa, S., & Kushnirovich, N. (2020). Coevolution between parasocial interaction in digital media and social contact with LGBT people. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-24.DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1809891

Kushnirovich, N. (2021). Remittances of immigrant citizens, attachment to the host country and transnationalism. Population Research and Policy Review, 40, 931–954. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-020-09630-7

Sherman, A., Shavit, T., Barokas, G., & Kushnirovich, N. (2021). On the role of personal values and philosophy of life in happiness technology. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22(3), 1055-1070.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00263-3.

Lissitsa, S., Kushnirovich, N., & Aharoni, M. (2021). A distant threat made local? The carry-over effect of perceived threat from asylum seekers in Europe to Israeli local outgroups.​ Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1956668

Youngmann, R. & Kushnirovich, N. (2021). Resource threat versus resource loss and emotional well-being of ethnic minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), 12590.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312590. 

Lissitsa, S., Kushnirovich, N., & Aharoni, M. (2022). Domestication of remote threats: From vicarious learning of foreign events to local intergroup relations. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 87, 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.02.004.

 

Kushnirovich, N., & Lissitsa, S. (2022). Economic contact in service encounters between groups in protracted conflict. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 22, 582–601. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12307.

 

Kushnirovich, N., & Raijman, R. (2022). Bilateral agreements, precarious work, and the vulnerability of migrant workers in Israel. Theoretical Inquiries in Law 23(2), 266–288. https://doi.org/10.1515/til-2022-0019. 

 

Lissitsa, S., Kushnirovich, N., & Aharoni, M. (2022). A distant threat made local? The carry-over effect of perceived threat from asylum seekers in urope to Israeli local outgroups. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20(4), 598–612. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1956668. 

 

Kushnirovich, N. (2023). The Theory of Ethnic Economics and Ethnic Economy. In Immigration and Integration in Israel and Beyond. Ed. by Oshrat Hochman. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 53-78. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466759. 

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Lissitsa, S., Kushnirovich, N., & Steinfeld, N. (2023). Carry‐over effect of single media exposure and mass‐mediated contact with remote outgroups: From asylum seekers in Europe to an Israeli local outgroup. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 53, 752–769 https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12965. 

Kushnirovich, N., Lissitsa, S. (2024). Attitudes formation toward minority outgroups in times of global crisis—The role of good and bad digital news consumption. Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), 232–249. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14030232.

 

Kushnirovich N. (2024). How income and discrimination shape the acceptance of newcomers in Europe: A comparative analysis of native-born and immigrant populations. Behavioral Sciences. 2024, 14(9), 743. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14090743.  

Lissitsa, S., Aharoni, M. & Kushnirovich, N. (2024). Journalistic and reception mechanisms of remote threat domestication – EU asylum seekers in Israeli media. Media Culture and Society, 01634437241245910. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241245910.

 

Raijman, R., Kushnirovich, N. & Kurlander, Y. (2024). Between marketization and demarketization: Reconfiguration of the migration industry in the agricultural sector in Israel. Population Research and Policy Review 43 (32). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-024-09876-5. 

 

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Prof. Nonna Kushnirovich, PhD, is Head of the Research Authority of the Ruppin Academic Center, Israel. She is also a Researcher at the Institute of Immigration and Social Integration, and a former Head of the Department of Economics and Management. Her current research interests include economics of immigration, ethnic economy, entrepreneurship of immigrant and ethnic minorities, economic integration and economic behavior of immigrants, commodification of labor migration and its impact on the labor markets.

Prof. Kushnirovich was Editor in Chief of the Yearbook of Immigrants in Israel. She is a member of the editorial boards of two international academic journals. Nonna Kushnirovich also was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Head of the section in charge of Foreign Workers Rights at the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. She has substantial experience in research projects on immigrants for the Israeli Institute of Social Insurance, the Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, the Population and Immigration Authority of Israel, and other organizations. Prof. Nonna Kushnirovich has published numerous papers in international academic journals.