Arbeitspapier

Emigration and democracy

International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and identification methods. Remarkably, the cross-sectional estimates are fully in line with the implied long-run relationship from dynamic panel regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: FERDI Working Paper ; No. P155

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Institutions and Growth
International Migration
Subject
migration
institutions
democracy
Development

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Docquier, Frédéric
Lodigiani, Elisabetta
Rapoport, Hillel
Schiff, Maurice
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)
(where)
Clermont-Ferrand
(when)
2016

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Docquier, Frédéric
  • Lodigiani, Elisabetta
  • Rapoport, Hillel
  • Schiff, Maurice
  • Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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