Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences implicitly assume that cultural proximity between two countries is constant over time and symmetric, which is...

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences.

The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance, visual arts, books, audio-visual material and design on emigration decisions.