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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

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  • Sascha O. Becker
  • Volker Lindenthal
  • Sharun W. Mukand
  • Fabian Waldinger

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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.

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  • Sascha O. Becker & Volker Lindenthal & Sharun W. Mukand & Fabian Waldinger, 2024. "Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 16(3), pages 1-43, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:aejapp:v:16:y:2024:i:3:p:1-43
    DOI: 10.1257/app.20220278
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    1. Sascha O. Becker, 2022. "Forced displacement in history: Some recent research," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 62(1), pages 2-25, March.
    2. Ina Ganguli & Fabian Waldinger, 2024. "War and Science in Ukraine," Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 3(1), pages 165-188.
    3. Becker, Sascha O. & Mukand, Sharun & Yotzov, Ivan, 2022. "Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    4. Rafiuddin Najam & Patrinos,Harry Anthony & Raja Bentaouet Kattan, 2024. "The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan : From Wage Premiums to Economic Losses," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10888, The World Bank.
    5. Donia Kamel & Laura Pollacci, 2023. "Academic Migration and Academic Networks: Evidence from Scholarly Big Data and the Iron Curtain," CESifo Working Paper Series 10377, CESifo.

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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
    • 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 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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