TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Christensen, Julie
AU  - Onul, Darius
AU  - Singh, Prakarsh
        TI  - Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor
        PY  - 2016/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10094
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10094
        AB  - We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or non-agglomerating with network effects. In the latter case, non-ethnic wars may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and includes important explanatory variables shows that non-ethnic wars as opposed to ethnic wars may lead to more skilled emigration.
        KW  - civil war
KW  - emigration
KW  - brain drain
KW  - ethnic war
KW  - agglomeration
KW  - high-skilled migration
        ER  -