This study attempts to fill an important gap in the empirical literature by investigating the impact of institutional quality in destination countries on emigrants from Türkiye using bilateral migration data from 2010 through 2020. For this purpose, the study builds an augmented gravity model, including economic, geographic, and cultural variables in an exponential form and estimates it by the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) method. Empirical results significantly confirm the pulling role of strong institutions in destination countries for emigrants from Türkiye since all institutional quality indicators are positively associated with emigrant movements, albeit just one of them, regulatory quality, is statistically insignificant. Among indicators of institutional quality, the most pulling ones for emigrants are voice and accountability and the rule of law, followed by government effectiveness, control of corruption, and political stability and absence of violence, respectively. Overall results indicate that institutions are front‐line players in the emigrants' migration decision and destination choice process. In this context, policy‐makers in both Türkiye and the destination country may implement an institutional policy considering the outcomes stemming from migration movements.

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制度质量和移民关系：来自土耳其的经验证据

本研究试图利用 2010 年至 2020 年的双边移民数据调查目的地国制度质量对土耳其移民的影响，从而填补实证文献中的一个重要空白。为此，该研究建立了一个增强引力模型，包括经济、地理和文化变量以指数形式呈现，并通过泊松伪最大似然（PPML）方法对其进行估计。实证结果显着证实了目的地国强有力的制度对土耳其移民的拉动作用，因为所有制度质量指标都与移民流动呈正相关，尽管只有其中一项（监管质量）在统计上微不足道。在制度质量指标中，对移民影响最大的是话语权、问责制和法治，其次分别是政府效率、腐败控制、政治稳定和无暴力。总体结果表明，机构是移民移民决策和目的地选择过程中的一线参与者。在这种情况下，土耳其和目的地国的政策制定者可能会考虑移民流动的结果来实施制度政策。