%0 Report
        %A Docquier, Frédéric
%A Lodigiani, Elisabetta
%A Rapoport, Hillel
%A Schiff, Maurice
        %T Emigration and Democracy
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5496
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5496
        %X 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.
        %K brain drain
%K migration
%K diaspora effects
%K democracy
%K institutions