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Do Potential Skilled Emigrants Care about Political Stability at Home?
Author(s) -
Dutta Nabamita,
Roy Sanjukta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2011.00619.x
Subject(s) - emigration , politics , developing country , socioeconomic status , economics , democracy , political stability , demographic economics , accountability , government (linguistics) , development economics , political science , economic growth , sociology , population , demography , law , linguistics , philosophy
In this paper, we consider the role of political stability in the source country as a potential reason for skilled emigration. We control for all prospective source country characteristics, and yet skilled emigration is seen to be driven by a relatively better situation of political stability in the home country. Our research clearly shows that government stability, socioeconomic conditions, investment profiles, democratic accountability, internal conflict, and ethnic tensions in source nations have significant impacts on the rate of skilled emigration for a sample of developed and developing countries. The results retain robustness even for a subset of only developing nations.