Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282062 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 370
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
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 émigrés (emigrated 1933-1934) were more likely to emigrate. Early émigrés 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.
Subjects: 
professional networks
high-skilled emigration
Nazi Germany
Jewish academics
universities
JEL: 
I20
I23
I28
J15
J24
N30
N34
N40
N44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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