Jewish occupational selection. Education, restrictions, or minorities?

Autor/inn/en	Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Jewish occupational selection. Education, restrictions, or minorities?
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2004), 32 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Bonn). 1224
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungssoziologie; Bildungsreform; Bildungsrendite; Geschichte (Histor); Migration; Judentum; Religion; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Beruf; Berufswahl; Kaufmännischer Beruf; Alphabetisierung; Reform; Jude
Abstract	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. [The authors] show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire when there were no restrictions on their economic activities, most of them were farmers, and they were a minority in all locations. Therefore, arguments based on restrictions or minority status cannot explain the occupational transition of the Jews at that time. [The authors'] thesis is that the occupational selection of the Jews was the outcome of the widespread literacy prompted by a religious and educational reform in the first century ce, which was implemented in the third to the eighth century. They present detailed information on the implementation of this religious and educational reform in Judaism based on the Talmud, archeological evidence on synagogues, the Cairo Geniza documents, and the Responsa literature. They also provide evidence of the economic returns to Jewish religious literacy. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/2