difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …

education, gained the comparative advantage and incentive to enter skilled occupations during the vast urbanization in the newly … merchants the Jews invested even more in education - a pre-condition for the extensive mailing network and common court system … religious norm regarding education, and hence, voluntarily converted, exactly as it had happened centuries earlier. …

the size of the Jewish population from 4.5 million to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers who invested in education … merchants the Jews invested even more in education---a pre-condition for the extensive mailing network and common court system … enforce the religious norm regarding education, and hence, voluntarily converted, exactly as it had happened centuries earlier. …

choice, and that individuals with more education choose higher-ranking jobs. The role of experience is important for natives … influenced by their mother’s education and not by their fathers’ occupation. …

Jews prompted by an educational reform in the first century CE. Based on the growing nexus between education and Judaism in … the first half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion and location …

equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but … quickens the migration of raw labour towards the West. A greater share of economic activity is eventually located in the … western region. Unions in the West will benefit from this, provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw …

. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education …