Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107527 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8746
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain drain indicators. Building on newly collated data, the paper uses a novel estimation procedure based on a pseudo-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute missing data. Non-OECD destinations account for one-third of skilled-migration, while OECD destinations are declining in relative importance.
Subjects: 
international migration
labor mobility
brain drain
migration data
population censuses
JEL: 
F22
J61
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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