Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination

Arusha Cooray and Friedrich Schneider ()

No 8094, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate of those with high levels of educational attainment also increases. The emigration rate of those with middle and low levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain point. Splitting the sample by income inequality suggests that increased inequality reduces the ability to emigrate. The policy conclusion is, that government actions should focus on controlling corruption, which in turn would lead to funds being channeled more productively into education and also lead to a fall in inequality which would reduce emigration.

Keywords: income inequality; government expenditures; educational attainment; emigration; corruption; labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 H11 H2 H26 O17 O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2014-04
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Published - published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310

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