A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
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 mobi...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19489069/global-assessment-human-capital-mobility-role-non-oecd-destinations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18349 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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