Emigration and Democracy
48 Pages Posted: 13 Sep 2011
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Emigration and Democracy
Date Written: May 1, 2011
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.
Keywords: Migration, institutions, democracy, diaspora effects, brain drain
JEL Classification: O1, F22
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