A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain d...

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Main Authors:	Docquier, Frédéric, Lowell, B. Lindsay, Marfouk, Abdeslam
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT OF WOMEN ADULT LITERACY ADULT POPULATION BRAIN DRAIN CAPITAL INVESTMENT CENSUS DATA CENTRAL AMERICA CENTRAL AMERICAN CITIZENS CITIZENSHIP CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DIASPORA EASTERN ASIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STATUS EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL GENDER GAPS EDUCATIONAL LEVEL EMIGRATION EMIGRATION COUNTRIES EMIGRATION RATE EMPOWERMENT ENROLLMENT ENROLMENT RATE EXPATRIATES EXPENDITURES FAMILY MEMBERS FAMILY REUNION FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE MIGRANTS FEMALE POPULATION FERTILITY RATES FOREIGN CITIZENS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN POPULATION FUTURE GENERATIONS GENDER GENDER BREAKDOWN GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DIMENSION GENDER DISPARITIES GENDER EQUALITY GENDER GAP GENDER GAP IN EDUCATION GENDER GAPS GENDER INEQUALITY GIRLS GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HOST COUNTRY HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ILLEGAL MIGRANTS IMMIGRANT IMMIGRANT POPULATION IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION COUNTRIES IMPACT OF MIGRATION INCOME GROUPS INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OF WOMEN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REPORT INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE SURVEYS LABOR MARKET LABOR MIGRATION LABOR-EXPORTING COUNTRIES LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES LOWER FERTILITY MIDDLE EAST MIGRANT MIGRANTS MIGRATION MIGRATION PRESSURE MIGRATIONS NATIONAL POPULATION NORTH MIGRATION NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS NUMBER OF PEOPLE NURSES POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH REPORT ON GENDER POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR ACCESS POPULATION CENSUSES POPULATION CENTER POPULATION DATA POPULATION REGISTERS POPULATION SIZE POWER PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROFESSIONAL EMIGRATION PROGRESS PULL FACTORS REMITTANCES REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN SECONDARY EDUCATION SKILL LEVEL SKILLED EMIGRANTS SKILLED LABOR SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRATION SKILLED WOMEN SKILLED WORKERS SMALL COUNTRIES SOCIAL CHANGES SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIETIES SOUTH AMERICA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TERTIARY EDUCATION UNDP UNEQUAL ACCESS UNITED NATIONS UNSKILLED MIGRATION UNSKILLED WOMEN WESTERN EUROPE WOMEN IMMIGRANTS WORLD MIGRATION YOUNG MEN Microdata Set
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9416555/gendered-assessment-brain-drain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6717