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| Title: | | Emigration and democracy  |
| Authors: | | Docquier, Frédéric Lodigiani, Elisabetta Rapoport, Hillel Schiff, Maurice |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5496 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | migration institutions democracy diaspora effects brain drain |
| JEL: | | O1 F22 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104113695 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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