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Emigration and Democracy

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  • Docquier, Frédéric

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    (Université catholique de Louvain)

  • Lodigiani, Elisabetta

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    (University of Luxembourg)

  • Rapoport, Hillel

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    (Paris School of Economics)

  • Schiff, Maurice

    ()

    (World Bank)

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.

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Keywords: institutions; democracy; diaspora effects; migration; brain drain;

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  • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
  • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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