Government ideology and international migration

Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou and Harry Pickard

No 2020004, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: We provide the first empirical evidence that differences in government ideology play an important role in the choice of cross-border migration destinations. In absence of first-hand experience, immigrants rely on information about the political landscape of the origin and host countries to form expectations about the context of reception in the host society. We use data on bilateral migration and government ideology for 36 OECD countries between 1990 and 2016. Our analysis shows that bilateral migration flows are higher when the government at the destination is more left-wing than the government at the origin, especially when we consider proximate countries.

Keywords: international migration; migration choice; government ideology; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F22 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2020-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gen, nep-int, nep-mig, nep-pol and nep-ure
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