Emigration
In: Africa research bulletin. Economic, financial and technical series, Band 47, Heft 10
ISSN: 1467-6346
In: Africa research bulletin. Economic, financial and technical series, Band 47, Heft 10
ISSN: 1467-6346
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 145, Heft 2, S. 27-35
ISSN: 1552-3349
In: Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 104-119
ISSN: 1363-0296
In: Inter-parliamentary bulletin: official publication of the Inter-Parliamentary Bureau, Band 9, S. 139-150
ISSN: 0020-5079
In: International labour review, Band 34, S. 618-651
ISSN: 0020-7780
In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie: KZfSS, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 298-308
ISSN: 0023-2653
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We 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 in the short run and for many countries in the long run once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for.
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We 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 in the short run and for many countries in the long run once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for.
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In: South Asia bulletin, Band 2, S. 1-11
ISSN: 0732-3867
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets controlling for unobserved heterogeneity between countries. This paper finds that emigration rises on average as GDP per capita initially rises in poor countries, slowing after roughly US$5,000 at purchasing power parity, and reversing after roughly $10,000. Before this reversal, the within-country elasticity of rising emigration prevalence to rising GDP per capita is +0.35 to all destinations, and +0.74 to rich destinations. This relationship between emigration flows and economic growth is highly robust to country and time effects (fixed or random), specification (linear, log, nonparametric), emigration measure (stock or flow), country subsamples (rich destinations, large origins), and historical period (1960-2019 or 1850-1914). Decomposition of channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural change, but question a large role for transportation costs or policy barriers.
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In: The Federalist: a political review, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 3-7
ISSN: 0393-1358