Emigration and democracy
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled emigration that is generally positive, significant for a few countries in the short run and for many countries in the long run once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for.
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2011
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Authors: | Docquier, Frédéric ; Lodigiani, Elisabetta ; Rapoport, Hillel ; Schiff, Maurice |
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Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Subject: | Auswanderung | Brain Drain | Demokratie | Institutioneller Wandel | Humankapital | Entwicklungsländer | Welt | migration | institutions | democracy | diaspora effects | brain drain |
Saved in:
freely available
Series: | IZA Discussion Papers ; 5496 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 664346316 [GVK] hdl:10419/51833 [Handle] |
Classification: | O1 - Economic Development ; F22 - International Migration |
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