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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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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025046
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Formation and realisation of moving intentions across the adult life course
Dommermuth, Lars; Klüsener, Sebastian - 2017
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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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Frictional labor mobility
Schmutz, Benoît; Sidibé, Modibo - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199822
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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …
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Mobility in an enlarging European Union : projections of potential flows from EU's eastern neighbors and Croatia
Fertig, Michael; Kahanec, Martin - 2013
This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …
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Digging up trenches : populism, selective mobility, and the political polarization of Italian municipalities
Bellodi, Luca; Docquier, Frédéric; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2024
We study the effect of local exposure to populism on net population movements by citizenship status, gender, age and education level in the context of Italian municipalities. We present two research designs to estimate the causal effect of populist attitudes and politics. Initially, we use a...
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Why are low-skilled workers less mobile? : the role of mobility costs and spatial frictions
Schmutz, Benoît; Sidibé, Modibo; Vidal-Naquet, Élie - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286441
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Why are low-skilled workers less mobile? : the role of mobility costs and spatial frictions
Schmutz, Benoît; Sidibé, Modibo; Vidal-Naquet, Elie - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387235