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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Main Authors: Artuc, Erhan, Docquier, Frederic, Ozden, Caglar, Parsons, Christopher
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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spelling okr-10986-183492021-04-23T14:03:44Z A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations Artuc, Erhan Docquier, Frederic Ozden, Caglar Parsons, Christopher BRAIN DRAIN BRAIN GAIN CENSUS DATA CENSUSES CITIZENSHIP COUNTRY OF ORIGIN COUNTRY PAIRS DATA ON IMMIGRATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA EARNINGS OF IMMIGRANTS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MIGRATION EDUCATED MIGRANTS EDUCATED PEOPLE EDUCATED WOMEN EDUCATION OF WOMEN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL GENDER GAPS EFFECTS OF MIGRATION EMIGRATION EMIGRATION DATA EMIGRATION RATE EMIGRATIONS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPATRIATES FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE MIGRANTS FEMALE POPULATION FEMALE WORKERS FERTILITY FERTILITY RATE GENDER GENDER BREAKDOWN GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DIMENSION GENDER DISPARITIES GENDER GAPS GENDER INEQUALITY GENDER SPECIFIC GENDER^ SPECIFIC GLOBAL BRAIN DRAIN GROSS EMIGRATION GROSS IMMIGRATION HIGH SKILLED MIGRATION HOST COUNTRIES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL LOSS IMMIGRANT IMMIGRANT STOCK IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICIES INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL BORDERS INTERNATIONAL EMIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL TRADE LABOR FORCE LABOR MIGRATION LABOUR FORCE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOUR FORCE SURVEY LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET POLICIES LEVELS OF EDUCATION LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRANT MIGRANT LABOR MIGRANT LABOR FORCE MIGRANT STOCK MIGRATION MIGRATION COSTS MIGRATION DATA MIGRATION FLOWS MIGRATION INDICATORS MIGRATION PATTERNS MIGRATION RATES NATIONAL BOUNDARIES NATIONALS NET MIGRATION NUMBER OF MIGRANTS NUMBER OF WORKERS POLICIES ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH REPORT ON GENDER POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLYGAMY POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION CENTER POPULATION DATA POPULATION SIZE PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PULL FACTOR PULL FACTORS PUSH FACTORS REFUGEES REMITTANCES SECONDARY EDUCATION SKILL COMPOSITION SKILL LEVEL SKILL LEVELS SKILLED EMIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRATION SKILLED WOMEN SKILLED WORKERS UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION WORK FORCE WORKFORCE WORKING-AGE POPULATION WORLD MIGRATION 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. 2014-05-15T16:23:58Z 2014-05-15T16:23:58Z 2014-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19489069/global-assessment-human-capital-mobility-role-non-oecd-destinations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18349 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6863 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic BRAIN DRAIN
BRAIN GAIN
CENSUS DATA
CENSUSES
CITIZENSHIP
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
COUNTRY PAIRS
DATA ON IMMIGRATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DIASPORA
EARNINGS OF IMMIGRANTS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MIGRATION
EDUCATED MIGRANTS
EDUCATED PEOPLE
EDUCATED WOMEN
EDUCATION OF WOMEN
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EDUCATIONAL GENDER GAPS
EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
EMIGRATION
EMIGRATION DATA
EMIGRATION RATE
EMIGRATIONS
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EXPATRIATES
FEMALE EDUCATION
FEMALE MIGRANTS
FEMALE POPULATION
FEMALE WORKERS
FERTILITY
FERTILITY RATE
GENDER
GENDER BREAKDOWN
GENDER DIFFERENCES
GENDER DIMENSION
GENDER DISPARITIES
GENDER GAPS
GENDER INEQUALITY
GENDER SPECIFIC
GENDER^ SPECIFIC
GLOBAL BRAIN DRAIN
GROSS EMIGRATION
GROSS IMMIGRATION
HIGH SKILLED MIGRATION
HOST COUNTRIES
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL LOSS
IMMIGRANT
IMMIGRANT STOCK
IMMIGRANTS
IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION POLICIES
INTERNAL MIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL BORDERS
INTERNATIONAL EMIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MIGRATION
LABOUR FORCE
LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION
LABOUR FORCE SURVEY
LABOUR MARKET
LABOUR MARKET POLICIES
LEVELS OF EDUCATION
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MIGRANT
MIGRANT LABOR
MIGRANT LABOR FORCE
MIGRANT STOCK
MIGRATION
MIGRATION COSTS
MIGRATION DATA
MIGRATION FLOWS
MIGRATION INDICATORS
MIGRATION PATTERNS
MIGRATION RATES
NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
NATIONALS
NET MIGRATION
NUMBER OF MIGRANTS
NUMBER OF WORKERS
POLICIES ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY RESEARCH REPORT ON GENDER
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
POLYGAMY
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
POPULATION CENTER
POPULATION DATA
POPULATION SIZE
PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRESS
PULL FACTOR
PULL FACTORS
PUSH FACTORS
REFUGEES
REMITTANCES
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SKILL COMPOSITION
SKILL LEVEL
SKILL LEVELS
SKILLED EMIGRANTS
SKILLED MIGRANTS
SKILLED MIGRATION
SKILLED WOMEN
SKILLED WORKERS
UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION
WORK FORCE
WORKFORCE
WORKING-AGE POPULATION
WORLD MIGRATION
spellingShingle BRAIN DRAIN
BRAIN GAIN
CENSUS DATA
CENSUSES
CITIZENSHIP
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
COUNTRY PAIRS
DATA ON IMMIGRATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DIASPORA
EARNINGS OF IMMIGRANTS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MIGRATION
EDUCATED MIGRANTS
EDUCATED PEOPLE
EDUCATED WOMEN
EDUCATION OF WOMEN
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EDUCATIONAL GENDER GAPS
EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
EMIGRATION
EMIGRATION DATA
EMIGRATION RATE
EMIGRATIONS
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EXPATRIATES
FEMALE EDUCATION
FEMALE MIGRANTS
FEMALE POPULATION
FEMALE WORKERS
FERTILITY
FERTILITY RATE
GENDER
GENDER BREAKDOWN
GENDER DIFFERENCES
GENDER DIMENSION
GENDER DISPARITIES
GENDER GAPS
GENDER INEQUALITY
GENDER SPECIFIC
GENDER^ SPECIFIC
GLOBAL BRAIN DRAIN
GROSS EMIGRATION
GROSS IMMIGRATION
HIGH SKILLED MIGRATION
HOST COUNTRIES
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL LOSS
IMMIGRANT
IMMIGRANT STOCK
IMMIGRANTS
IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION POLICIES
INTERNAL MIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL BORDERS
INTERNATIONAL EMIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MIGRATION
LABOUR FORCE
LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION
LABOUR FORCE SURVEY
LABOUR MARKET
LABOUR MARKET POLICIES
LEVELS OF EDUCATION
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MIGRANT
MIGRANT LABOR
MIGRANT LABOR FORCE
MIGRANT STOCK
MIGRATION
MIGRATION COSTS
MIGRATION DATA
MIGRATION FLOWS
MIGRATION INDICATORS
MIGRATION PATTERNS
MIGRATION RATES
NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
NATIONALS
NET MIGRATION
NUMBER OF MIGRANTS
NUMBER OF WORKERS
POLICIES ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY RESEARCH REPORT ON GENDER
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
POLYGAMY
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
POPULATION CENTER
POPULATION DATA
POPULATION SIZE
PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRESS
PULL FACTOR
PULL FACTORS
PUSH FACTORS
REFUGEES
REMITTANCES
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SKILL COMPOSITION
SKILL LEVEL
SKILL LEVELS
SKILLED EMIGRANTS
SKILLED MIGRANTS
SKILLED MIGRATION
SKILLED WOMEN
SKILLED WORKERS
UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION
WORK FORCE
WORKFORCE
WORKING-AGE POPULATION
WORLD MIGRATION
Artuc, Erhan
Docquier, Frederic
Ozden, Caglar
Parsons, Christopher
A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6863
description 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.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Artuc, Erhan
Docquier, Frederic
Ozden, Caglar
Parsons, Christopher
author_facet Artuc, Erhan
Docquier, Frederic
Ozden, Caglar
Parsons, Christopher
author_sort Artuc, Erhan
title A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
title_short A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
title_full A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
title_fullStr A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
title_full_unstemmed A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
title_sort global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-oecd destinations
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19489069/global-assessment-human-capital-mobility-role-non-oecd-destinations
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18349
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