The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Barsbai, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; Trebesch, Christoph

doi:10.1257/app.20150517

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“…As we would expect, migration experience acquired in host countries with a high degree of freedom steers the returnees to regions characterized by relatively good institutional quality. Whereas having lived in a democratic host country has already been shown to have a positive impact on the likelihood of returnees participating in elections (Batista & Vicente, 2011;Pfutze, 2012;Chauvet & Mercier, 2014;Barsbai et al, 2017), we show that migration experience also matters for the extent to which return migrants take institutional quality in the home country at the local level into account in their locational choices.…”

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“…The quality of political, economic, and other institutions is recognized as one of the many determinants of migration decisions (Borjas, 1989;Rowlands, 1999;Karemera et al, 2000;Vogler & Rotte, 2000;Bertocchi & Strozzi, 2008;Ashby, 2010;Hatton & Williamson, 2011;Cooray & Schneider, 2016;Ariu et al, 2016). On the other hand, there is also evidence of potential impacts of international migration on the institutional quality of the home country (Ammassari, 2004;Spilimbergo, 2009;Batista & Vicente, 2011;Pfutze, 2012;Beine & Sekkat, 2013;Chauvet & Mercier, 2014;Docquier et al, 2016;Li et al, 2016;Barsbai et al, 2017).…”

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Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam

Tran

Cameron

Poot

2018

International Migration

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This article examines the link between local institutional quality in the home country and locational choices of international return migrants. We scrutinize the locational choices of Vietnamese return migrants to the south central and the south regions of Viet Nam in 2014. Binary and multinomial regression models are fitted to identify the influence of migrants’ individual attributes and the characteristics of regional destinations within Viet Nam. Our analysis reveals that both individual‐specific and region‐specific variables are significantly related to Vietnamese return migrants’ choices when registering for permanent residency back in their home country. More remarkably, we provide compelling evidence of the positive role of institutional quality at the local level in these migration decisions. Moreover, the effect of institutional quality differs with the characteristics of migrants: regions with better institutional quality are more attractive both to younger return migrants and to those who returned from host countries with better institutional quality.

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Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam

Tran

Cameron

Poot

2018

International Migration

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“…That said, evidence exists that corruption might be 'greasing the wheels' of an economy (e.g., Bologna and Ross 2015;Dreher and Gassebner 2013). 2 More broadly, the paper contributes to a burgeoning literature on 'diaspora externalities'-the effects of emigration on the political, institutional and social outcomes in the migrants' countries of origin (Batista and Vicente 2011;Barsbai et al 2017;Bertoli and Marchetta 2015;Chauvet and Mercier 2014;Docquier et al 2016;Li et al 2017;Pfutze 2012). level by considering a wider range of public officials as potential bribe takers, making a distinction between migration with and without monetary remittances, and considering attitudes toward corruption as well as actual bribery experiences. Second, we focus our study on the Western Balkan countries, a region with a long and complex migration history, the consequences of which are not well understood.…”

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Does emigration reduce corruption?

Ivļevs

King

2017

Public Choice

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We study the effects of emigration on bribery experience and attitudes towards corruption in the migrants' countries of origin. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor survey and instrumental variable analysis, we find that having relatives abroad reduces the likelihood of bribing public officials, renders bribe-taking behavior by public officials less acceptable, and reduces the likelihood of being asked for bribes by public officials. Receiving monetary remittances does not change the beneficial effects regarding bribe paying and attitudes toward corruption; however, remittances counteract the beneficial effect on bribe solicitations by public officials. Overall, our findings support the conjecture that migration contributes to the transfer of norms and practices from destination to source countries.

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“…These issues are addressed in Barsbai et al (2017) for Moldova. The authors take advantage of the natural experiment constituted by the Russian crisis of 1998, which sparked emigration out of Moldova, a country with previously no ties to the West and very little emigration even to other former Soviet Union Republics, as it was highly specialized in agriculture and dependent on agricultural exports to Russia.…”

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Diaspora Externalities

Rapoport

2019

IZA Journal of Development and Migration

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This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora networks on core globalization outcomes such as trade, foreign investments, and the diffusion of knowledge and technology across borders. I then turn to the cultural and political sway of the diaspora, investigating the impact of emigration on the formation of political attitudes, fertility behavior, and other aspects of culture in the home country.

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Cited by 116 publications

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Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam

Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam

Does emigration reduce corruption?

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