Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73817 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 114
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivityfor the Huguenots migration to Prussia. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from1700 with Prussian firm-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in 1802 in aunique data base. In 1685, religious persecution drove highly skilled Huguenots out ofFrance into backward Brandenburg-Prussia where they were channeled into towns tocompensate population losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years’ War. Exploitingthis settlement pattern in an instrumental-variable approach, we still find causal effectsof Huguenot settlement on the productivity of textile manufactories hundred years aftertheir immigration.
Subjects: 
Migration
technological diffusion
human capital
Huguenots
Prussian economic history
JEL: 
N33
J24
O33
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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