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 …

Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political … relies on the quasi-experimental context studied and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration was …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …

development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or … and review the evidence on these channels. The recent empirical literature shows that high-skill emigration need not … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …

, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and Marfouk (2006) data set on emigration rates by education level to examine the …