Emigration and Democracy

By Frédéric Docquier, E. Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport, Maurice Schiff. Social Science Research Network, 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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Citations in the corpus

• Bringing It All Back Home – Return Migration and Fertility Choices (2015, unknown): “2012. halshs-00659292 CERDI, Etudes et Documents, E 2012.01”
• Do return migrants transfer political norms to their origin country? Evidence from Mali (2014, background): “The transfer of political norms has first been tested at the macro level (Li and McHale, 2006; Spilimbergo, 2009; Docquier et al., 2011; Beine and Sekkat, 2011; Lodigiani and Salomone, 2012).”
• Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, background): “In this context, Docquier et al. (2016) and Spilimbergo (2009) show that the level of emigration is related to political developments in the home country.”
• Migration, diversity, and economic growth (2017, methodology): “13 To increase the predictive power of the gravity model, we follow Docquier et al. (2015) and include interactions between geographic distance and time dummies.”