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

Sascha Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun W. Mukand and Fabian Waldinger

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-43

Abstract: 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-codes: I31 J44 N34 N44 Z12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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