Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire

Natkhov, Timur; Vasilenok, Natalia

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101399

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“…Moreover, innovation which is a determinant of entrepreneurship (Zhao et al, 2012), is in turn determined by the history of epidemics . Natkhov and Vasilenok (2021) also show that in Russia, innovation is strongly determined by past German migration flows. This observation leads us to propose a mediation test on our variable and the other variables recognized by the literature (GDP per capita; culture; level of digitalization of economies).…”

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confidence: 74%

Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Institutions in 125 Countries

Messono

Asongu

2021

SSRN Journal

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Section: Base Line Resultsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Institutions in 125 Countries

Messono

Asongu

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…Second, we argue that the positive net legacy effect persisted largely due to the predeparture influence of Armenian and Greek communities on human capital accumulation among Muslims. This connects our paper to the literature on the importance of human capital spillovers for development (Waldinger, 2010(Waldinger, , 2012, and, in particular, the socioeconomic influence of high-skilled ethno-religious groups (Becker & Woessmann, 2009;Hornung, 2014;Moser et al, 2014;Johnson & Koyama, 2017;Natkhov and Vasilenok, 2021). Our paper differs from this literature in its focus on whether the legacy effects persist in the absence of minority human capital, rather than capturing a combination of accumulated historical effects and the contemporaneous influence of human capital embodied in these groups.…”

Section: Contribution To the Literaturementioning

confidence: 86%

Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey

Arbatlı

Gokmen

2022

J Econ Growth

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Can the economic legacy of highly skilled groups persist long after they were uprooted from their homelands? To answer this question, we study long-term sub-national development in Turkey after the mass expulsions of the Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. Since these events led to an almost complete and permanent removal of both communities from Turkey within a short time period, they provide a unique quasi-natural experiment that rules out any direct minority influence on development in the post-expulsion period. By exploiting local variations in historical minority population shares and community buildings across modern districts and villages/neighborhoods within each district, we document a sizable Armenian and Greek legacy effect on contemporary measures of economic development. We argue that this persistent influence is grounded on the significant contribution of Armenian and Greek communities to human capital accumulation among Muslims. We show evidence that inter-group transfers of skills and knowledge were instrumental in this process, leading to greater human capital among Muslims in minority regions both in the past and today.

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“…While trade may have been a source of diffusion of ideas across borders, this is difficult to trace empirically due to evidentiary limitations in the cases that follow 15. Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas 2017;Bahar and Rapoport 2018;Droller 2018;Fairlie and Lofstrom 2015;Hausmann and Neffke 2019;Hornung 2014Hornung , 2019Moser, Voena, and Waldinger 2014;Natkhov and Vasilenok 2021. 16.…”

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Wisdom Is Welcome Wherever It Comes From: War, Diffusion, and State Formation in Scandinavia

Grynaviski

Steinsson

2023

Int Org

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Prominent theories of state formation hold that states formed because of warfare and competition on the one hand, or the diffusion of organizational templates and practices through learning and emulation on the other. We propose that the two strands of theory can be linked to more accurately account for mechanisms of state formation. War, we argue, is an important source of social diffusion. War establishes contacts between political elites across borders, generates migratory flows, and establishes new economic networks. We examine the validity of the theory through a comparative case study of Nordic political units from the dawn of the Viking Age to the end of the High Middle Ages (CE 800–1300), finding that raids, settlements, and conquests by Norwegian and Danish rulers in England, Europe's most advanced kingdom, set in motion state formation processes in Norway and Denmark. In these cases, the winners emulated the losers.

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Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire

Cited by 16 publications

References 36 publications

Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Institutions in 125 Countries

Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Institutions in 125 Countries

Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey

Wisdom Is Welcome Wherever It Comes From: War, Diffusion, and State Formation in Scandinavia

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