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Thursday, January 22, 2015

A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL MOBILITY: THE ROLE OF NON-OECD DESTINATIONS

World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper 6863

A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL MOBILITY: THE ROLE OF NON-OECD DESTINATIONS [May 2014]
by Erhan Artuç, Frédéric Docquier, Çağlar Özden, Christopher Parsons
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2014/05/12/000158349_20140512160809/Rendered/PDF/WPS6863.pdf
[full-text, 63 pages]

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.

 



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