Emigration and democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani (), Hillel Rapoport () and Maurice Schiff

No P155, Working Papers from FERDI

Abstract: International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the natives’ average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and identification methods. Remarkably, the cross-sectional estimates are fully in line with the implied long-run relationship from dynamic panel regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development.

Keywords: migration; institutions; democracy; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07
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