Migration and Knowledge Diffusion: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
Résumé
During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to 700,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of returning migrants in boosting export performance upon their return. Using confidential German administrative data we find that industries with 10% more returning refugees exhibit larger exports between the pre- and post-war periods by 1 to 1.6%. We use exogenous allocation rules for asylum seekers within Germany as an instrument to deal with endogeneity concerns. We show evidence pointing to productivity shifts as the main mechanism behind our results. Consistently, we find our results are driven by refugees in occupations more apt to transfer knowledge, technologies and best-practices.
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Migration and Knowledge Diffusion: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
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Résumé |
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During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to 700,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of returning migrants in boosting export performance upon their return. Using confidential German administrative data we find that industries with 10% more returning refugees exhibit larger exports between the pre- and post-war periods by 1 to 1.6%. We use exogenous allocation rules for asylum seekers within Germany as an instrument to deal with endogeneity concerns. We show evidence pointing to productivity shifts as the main mechanism behind our results. Consistently, we find our results are driven by refugees in occupations more apt to transfer knowledge, technologies and best-practices.
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Auteur(s) |
Dany Bahar
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, Andreas Hauptmann
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, Cem Ozguzel
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, Hillel Rapoport
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Brown University
( 236317 )
- Providence, Rhode Island 02912
- États-Unis
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Institute for Employment Research
( 338134 )
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- France
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 578027 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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CEPII -
Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales
( 14220 )
- France
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LISER -
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
( 462841 )
- 11, porte des Sciences 4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
- Luxembourg
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2022-01
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Page/Identifiant |
1-50
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Public visé |
Scientifique
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Migration, Refugees, Knowledge diffusion, Management, Exports, Productivity
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DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_01165 |
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