Emigration and democracy

Arbeitspapier

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions.This paper investigates the effect of emigration on the quality of home-country institutions. Using consider cross-sectional as well as dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the general emigration rate) has a positive effect on the quality of institutions (as measured by standard democracy and economic freedom indices) in the migrants' home countries. The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and estimation methods.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: FERDI Working Paper ; No. P90

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Migration

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Docquier, Frédéric ; Lodigiani, Elisabetta ; Schiff, Maurice
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)
• (wo): Clermont-Ferrand
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/269371