Immigration, diversity and institutions.

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and host countries' institutional quality, using international migration data for a sample of 130 countries over the 1990–2015 period. We employ two composite metrics of political institutions, encompassing multiple dimensions of governance. T...

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Published in:Kyklos Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 396 - 417
Main Authors: Roupakias, Stelios, Dimou, Spiridoula
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2021
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          Department of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalonik 54124,, Greece
          Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 455 00,, Greece
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        Emigration & immigration
        Land settlement patterns
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          Emigration & immigration
          Land settlement patterns
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      ab: This paper examines the relationship between immigration and host countries' institutional quality, using international migration data for a sample of 130 countries over the 1990–2015 period. We employ two composite metrics of political institutions, encompassing multiple dimensions of governance. To reduce endogeneity concerns, related to immigrant settlement patterns, we employ pseudo‐gravity‐based instruments in a 2SLS setting. Overall, our findings withstand several robustness checks and suggest that immigration has a negative and statistically significant impact on the level of institutional development of the countries analyzed in this study. However, there is substantial heterogeneity, since the impact of migrants appears to be somewhat stronger in less developed host countries. Interestingly, these findings are entirely driven by migrants stemming from countries displaying low institutional development.
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