Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …

similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of most contemporary American Jews. Starting in operative, craft and laborer jobs in small scale manufacturing or in …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …

This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive … occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in … cannot explain the occupational transition of the Jews at that time. Our thesis is that the occupational selection of the …

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade … among Jews prompted by an educational reform in the first century CE. Based on the growing nexus between education and … location. The model predicts that when urbanization expands (as it did in the Muslim Empire), Jews move to new cities due to …

following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 … enriched by 879,486 immigrants, a growth rate of 19.3 percent. In 1991, 15,000 Jews were airlifted in one single day in … ?Operation Solomon?. What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many …

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in … the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until … (i.e., a decrease in the total number of Jews, and their concentration in urban areas), without having to rely either on …

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and … University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are … that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …