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

No 10094, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 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; high-skilled migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 J1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2016-07
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Published - published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2018, 44, 18-29

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