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Civil War, Ethnicity, and the Migration of Skilled Labor

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  • James T Bang

    (Department of Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences, St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust Street, Davenport, IA 52803, USA.)

  • Aniruddha Mitra

    (Economics Program, Division of Social Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, USA.)

Abstract

We investigate the impact of civil war on high skilled emigration to the OECD over the period 1975–2000. Controlling for source country characteristics, we find that civil war increases high skilled emigration by 3–6 percentage points. Further, the nature of conflict matters: While brain drain from countries with ethnic conflict is about 5–8 percent greater than from non-conflict countries, the effect of non-ethnic conflict is less, and is not statistically significant. Duration also matters: Each additional year of ethnic conflict worsens the brain drain by 0.4–0.7 percent, whereas the duration effect from non-ethnic conflict is small and insignificant.

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  • James T Bang & Aniruddha Mitra, 2013. "Civil War, Ethnicity, and the Migration of Skilled Labor," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 39(3), pages 387-401.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:easeco:v:39:y:2013:i:3:p:387-401
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    1. Li, Qiang & An, Lian & Zhang, Ren, 2023. "Corruption drives brain drain: Cross-country evidence from machine learning," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    2. Aniruddha Mitra & James Bang & Phanindra Wunnava, 2014. "Financial liberalization and the selection of emigrants: a cross-national analysis," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 47(1), pages 199-226, August.
    3. Julie Christensen & Darius Onul & Prakarsh Singh, 2018. "Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 44(1), pages 18-29, January.
    4. Arnab Biswas & Colin O’Reilly & James T. Bang & Aniruddha Mitra, 2016. "Civil war and economic growth: the case for a closer look at forms of mobilization," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(15), pages 1057-1061, October.

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