TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Docquier, Frédéric
AU  - Lodigiani, Elisabetta
AU  - Rapoport, Hillel
AU  - Schiff, Maurice
        TI  - Emigration and Democracy
        PY  - 2011/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5496
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5496
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - brain drain
KW  - migration
KW  - diaspora effects
KW  - democracy
KW  - institutions
        ER  -