Spain’s Loss of Human Capital after the Civil War: Spanish Refugees in Mexico

Autor: Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, Carlos Santiago-Caballero
Přispěvatelé: Comunidad de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 52:537-564
ISSN: 1530-9169
0022-1953
Popis: Among the important consequences of non-voluntary migration due to forced exile is the loss of human capital in the country of origin. Quantitative measurement of the human capital represented by the Spanish refugees who migrated to Mexico after the Spanish Civil War is largely missing from the economic-history literature. The use of multivariate regression models, focusing on occupation, height, and foreign-language facility as proxies of human capital, finds that the Spanish Republican refugees to Mexico presented a premium of human capital exceeding that of traditional economic migrants from Spain to Mexico, who were already considered "privileged". The data sources also allow the analysis to isolate the human capital of the exiled women, thereby overcoming the traditional invisibility of women in recorded economic history. The authors thank an anonymous referee for the improvements and the editors of the journal for their help and suggestions. They are also grateful for financial support from Universidad San Pablo-CEU (Project MCP20V03). Carlos Santiago-Caballero thanks the the members of the Economic History Department at the London School of Economics for their support writing this article. This work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M05), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation).
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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