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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
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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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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