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Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …
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similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …
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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 …
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The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...
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This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
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This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764612
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We …
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