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Economic rents and the contours of conflict in the data-driven economy

Ciuriak, Dan - 2020

In the era of continuous and steadily accelerating technological change that started with the Industrial Revolution, economies and societies were repeatedly transformed in ways that can be traced to ownership of the essential and scarce factor of production of the day and command of the economic...

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Does school integration generate peer effects? : Evidence from Boston's Metco program

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2004

-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent …

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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000 : A Preliminary Report

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2004

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that...

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Report on the potential impacts of property tax abatement on rental housing construction in Boston

Alejandro, Patricia; Carter, Mary Ellen; DiPasquale, Denise - 2024

Boston's high housing costs reflect a historic failure to build enough units to satisfy demand. Interest rates and … construction, the City of Boston is considering various policy options. Our committee was asked by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to … recommend which policy, if any, the city should pursue; Boston officials are better positioned to assess whether the benefits of …

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How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2002

Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly black students out of the Boston public school district to …

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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004

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 the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...

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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...

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Aliyah to Israel: Immigration under Conditions of Adversity

Neuman, Shoshana - 1999

A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24,000 who lived there. During the first three years of...

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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002

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 now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...

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The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is typically difficult. This paper uses a structural model to explain the answers on a set of questions...

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