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

Sascha Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand and Fabian Waldinger

No 2021-02, SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series from Monash University

Abstract: We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of emigration from Nazi Germany, allowing us to estimate the causal effect of

Keywords: Nazi Germany; Networks; Antisemitism; Jewish academics; Emigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I23 I28 J15 J24 N34 N44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-02-01
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