%0 Report
        %A Christensen, Julie
%A Onul, Darius
%A Singh, Prakarsh
        %T Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10094
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10094
        %X 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.
        %K civil war
%K emigration
%K brain drain
%K ethnic war
%K agglomeration
%K high-skilled migration