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Escaping Europe : health and human capital of Holocaust refugees

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Blum, Matthias and Rei, Claudia (2018) Escaping Europe : health and human capital of Holocaust refugees. European Review of Economic History, 22 (1). pp. 1-27. doi:10.1093/ereh/hex014 ISSN 1474-0044.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex014

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Abstract

The large-scale persecution of European Jews during the Second World War generated massive refugee movements. We study the last wave of Holocaust refugees with a newly compiled dataset of mostly Jewish passengers from several European countries traveling from Lisbon to New York between 1940 and 1942. We find that both refugee and non-refugee passengers were positively selected, but non-refugees were even more so, suggesting it was predominantly the European elite who escaped the Holocaust during this period. In spite of the unique circumstances of this historical setting, this episode of migration displays well-known selection features: both refugees and non-refugees are positively selected, and earlier passengers are more positively selected than later passengers, and economic barriers to migration apply.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish refugees -- Lisbon (Portugal), Jewish refugees -- New York N.Y.
Journal or Publication Title: European Review of Economic History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 1474-0044
Official Date: 1 February 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
1 February 2018Published
26 October 2017Available
31 August 2017Accepted
Volume: 22
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 1-27
DOI: 10.1093/ereh/hex014
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 1 November 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 26 October 2020
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