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From farmers to merchants : a human capital interpretation of Jewish economic history

Botticini, Maristella; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2002

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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The ethnographic approach to social mobility

Vaid, Divya - 2020

The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a discussion on ethnography as a method and approach to writing and description, and reviews some ways in which themes related to social mobility in the developing world have been...

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The effects of gentrification on the well-being and opportunity of original resident adults and children

Brummet, Quentin; Reed, Davin - 2019

of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are … not made observably worse off and neighborhood change is driven primarily by changes to in-migration. At the same time … increase the opportunity benefits we find, reduce out-migration pressure, and promote long-term affordability …

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