Emigration and democracy
Frédéric Docquier
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
Year of publication: |
2011
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Authors: | Docquier, Frédéric |
Other Persons: | Lodigiani, Elisabetta (contributor) ; Docquier, Frédéric (contributor) ; Rapoport, Hillel (contributor) ; Schiff, Maurice (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Washington, D.C : The World Bank |
Subject: | Demokratie | Democracy | Auswanderung | Emigration | Welt | World | Brain Drain | Brain drain | Humankapital | Human capital | Entwicklungsländer | Developing countries | Institutioneller Wandel | Institutional change |
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