International Skilled Migration and Institutional Quality: Evidence from Italian Provinces

The increasing importance of migration for the institutional dynamics in the sending and receiving places has raised the interest of scholars about the effects of migration. In particular, the growing high-skilled mobility that took place during the last few years has increased the attention to the consequences related to a higher level of education embedded in the migration flows. Using a System GMM estimator, the present paper contributes to this literature, highlighting a positive relationship between international human capital immigration and institutional quality in the Italian provinces during the period 2004-2012.