Jewish occupational attainment in the antebellum United States: Filling a gap in the literature
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- Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda, 2025. "Jewish Occupational Attainment in the Antebellum United States: Filling a Gap in the Literature," IZA Discussion Papers 17835, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Jews; Occupational Status; Occupational Income Score; Duncan Socioeconomic Index; 1850 Census of Population;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N31 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2025-04-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2025-04-28 (Labour Economics)
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