Publication: Emigration and Democracy
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2011-01
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Center for International Development at Harvard University
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Docquier, Frédéric, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff. “Emigration and Democracy.” CID Working Paper Series 2011.217, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2011.
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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.
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