Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor

Julie Christensen, Darius Onul and Prakarsh Singh ()
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Julie Christensen: Amherst College
Darius Onul: Amherst College
Prakarsh Singh: Amherst College

Eastern Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 44, issue 1, No 2, 18-29

Abstract: Abstract We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration [Bang and Mitra in East Econ J 39(3):387–401, 2013]. We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or non-agglomerating with network effects. In the latter case, non-ethnic wars may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and includes important explanatory variables shows that non-ethnic wars as opposed to ethnic wars may lead to more skilled emigration.

Keywords: civil war; emigration; brain drain; ethnic war; agglomeration; J1; F2; O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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