Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202758 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12412
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as outcome. Using confidential social security data to capture intensity of refugee workers to German industries–and exogenous allocation rules for asylum seekers within Germany as instrument—we find an elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and for workers in occupations intensive in analytical and managerial skills.
Subjects: 
migration
refugees
knowledge diffusion
management
exports
productivity
JEL: 
O33
F14
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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