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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; Waldinger, Fabian
• 署名单位: Monash University; University of Warwick; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Munich; University of Warwick; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; University of Munich
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20220278
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1-43
• 关键词: economic outcomes; ethnic enclaves; self-selection; immigrants; AGE; CONSEQUENCES; performance; expulsion; collapse; decay

摘要

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. ( JEL I31, J44, N34, N44, Z12, Z13 )