American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 16,
no. 3, July 2024
(pp. 1–43)
Abstract
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early emigres (emigrated 1933–1934) were more likely to emigrate. Early emigres functioned as "bridging nodes" that facilitated emigration to their own destination. We also provide evidence of decay in social ties over time and show that professional networks transmit information that is not publicly observable. Finally, we study the relative importance of three types (family, community, professional) of social networks.Citation
Becker, Sascha O., Volker Lindenthal, Sharun W. Mukand, and Fabian Waldinger. 2024. "Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16 (3): 1–43. DOI: 10.1257/app.20220278Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
- J44 Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
- N34 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
- N44 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: 1913-
- Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
- Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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