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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

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  • Toman Barsbai

    (Kiel Institute for the World Economy - Kiel Institute for the World Economy)

  • Hillel Rapoport

    (EUI - European University Institute - Institut Universitaire Européen, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, Migration Policy Center, UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • Andreas Steinmayr

    (LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München)

  • Christoph Trebesch

    (LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, CESifo - LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research)

Abstract

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade, eventually contributing to the fall of the last Communist government in Europe. Our results are suggestive of information transmission and cultural diffusion channels. Identification relies on the quasiexperimental context and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration was directed both to more democratic Western Europe and to less democratic Russia.

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  • Toman Barsbai & Hillel Rapoport & Andreas Steinmayr & Christoph Trebesch, 2017. "The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-03970632, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-03970632
    DOI: 10.1257/app.20150517
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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