Docquier, Frédéric
[Verfasser:in]
;
Lodigiani, Elisabetta
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Rapoport, Hillel
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Schiff, Maurice
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Erschienen in:World Bank Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 5557
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1 Online-Ressource (49 p)
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Englisch
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Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled emigration that is generally positive, significant for a few countries and for many countries once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for