Brain Drain and Institutions of Governance: Educational Attainment of Immigrants to the US 1988-2000

James Bang and Aniruddha Mitra ()

Middlebury College Working Paper Series from Middlebury College, Department of Economics

Abstract: We use a fixed effects panel data model to investigate the impact of institutions of governance on the educational attainment of immigrants to the United States over the period 1988 – 2000. Distinguishing between the quality and stability of political institutions in the countries of origin, we find that the two characteristics of institutional structure have conflicting impacts on the nature of brain drain. Immigrants from countries with a higher quality of political institutions tend to be better educated, on the average, than immigrants from countries with institutions of lower quality. However, immigrants from countries with greater political instability tend to be better educated than immigrants from countries with more stable governments.

Keywords: Immigration; institutions; political instability; brain drain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2009-11
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