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Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Institutional Approach to Brain Drain
Cassar, Lea; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
This paper suggests that institutional factors which reward social networks at the expenses of productivity can play an important role in explaining brain drain. The effects of social networks on brain drain are analyzed in a decision theory framework with asymmetric information. We distinguish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194430
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Persecution and Escape : Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242812
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Persecution and Escape : Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246027
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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438356
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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431361
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Persecution and escape: professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431888
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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021 - Updated March 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487822
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476804
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
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 eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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How large is the "Brain Drain" from Italy?
Becker, Sascha O.; Ichino, Andrea; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
from Italy significantly increased during the 1990 s . This is even more dramatically the case if we consider emigrating … the share of college graduates among emigrants from Italy has become larger than that share among residents of Italy. In … the late nineties, between 3% and 5% of the new college graduates from Italy was dispersed abroad each year. Some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514121