The Import of “cultural goods” and emigration: an unexplored relation

Mauro Lanati and Alessandra Venturini

No 2017/24, RSCAS Working Papers from European University Institute

Abstract: The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance, visual arts, books, audio-visual material and design on emigration decisions. The import of cultural goods, by affecting individual preferences, reduces the cost of any migration move and favors outflows towards exporting countries. A gravity model for 33 OECD destination countries and 184 sending ones has been estimated for the period 2009-2013. The issue of identification and endogeneity has been addressed through the inclusion of a comprehensive set of fixed effects and by instrumenting cultural imports with past flows and an imputed share of cultural imports à la Card (2001). The positive relationship is robust across different classifications for cultural goods, areas of destination and alternative econometric techniques

Keywords: Migration; trade in cultural goods; gravity model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F22 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04
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