Emigration and Democracy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Book , Other literature type , Research , Preprint , Report 01 Jan 2011 France, Italy, United States, France, France English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:SSRN Electronic Journal (eissn: 1556-5068,

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Authors: Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, Hillel; Schiff, Maurice;

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1765662 , 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.12.001 , 10.2139/ssrn.1926790 , 10.1596/1813-9450-5557

handle: 10419/269436 , 10419/51833 , 10419/295378 , 10419/96047 , 1814/39574

Emigration and Democracy

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Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors 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 and for many countries once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for.

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O43, Auswanderung, 330, Brain Drain, democracy, Welt, Development, Institutions, migration, O1, Humankapital, Migration, Institutions, Democracy, Diaspora Effects, Brain Drain, Migration, institutions, democracy, diaspora effects, brain drain, Institutioneller Wandel, institutions, brain drain, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Population Policies,Economic Theory&Research,International Migration,Human Migrations&Resettlements,Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement, Migration, diaspora effects, Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development, ddc:330, migration, institutions, democracy, diaspora effects, brain drain, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Democracy, O15, Migration, institutions, democracy, diaspora effects, brain drain., Entwicklungsländer, F22, Demokratie, jel: jel:F22, jel: jel:O43, jel: jel:O1, jel: jel:O15

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