Yinon Cohen

Yinon Cohen is the Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, which he chaired from 2011 to 2014. His research interests include labor markets, social stratification, international migration and Israel. Before Columbia, he was a professor at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy and the Golda Meir Institute for Social and Labor Research. He holds a PhD in Sociology from SUNY Stony Brook.