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| Title: | | Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations  |
| Authors: | | Chiswick, Carmel Ullman |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 863 |
| Abstract: | | An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories leads to various hypotheses about self-selection among Jewish immigrants and their influence on the Jewish community in their destination. Complementarity between general and Jewish human capital is also discussed as a factor in the development of location-specific Jewish human capital and its corresponding Jewish culture. |
| Subjects: | | migration immigrant adjustment religion Judaism minority ethnic groups |
| JEL: | | Z12 N30 J61 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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