Arbeitspapier

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 02/11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Thema
Migration
institutions
democracy
diaspora effects
brain drain

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Docquier, Frederic
Lodigiani, Elisabetta
Rapoport, Hillel
Schiff, Maurice
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(wo)
London
(wann)
2011

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Docquier, Frederic
  • Lodigiani, Elisabetta
  • Rapoport, Hillel
  • Schiff, Maurice
  • Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Entstanden

  • 2011

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