Population and Development Review
Volume 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-321

A gendered assessment of highly skilled emigration (Article)

Docquier F.* , Lowell B.L. , Marfouk A.
  • a National Fund for Scientific Research, Department of Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
  • b Department of Policy Studies, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, Georgetown, WA, United States
  • c Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Abstract

Although women form a large and increasing proportion of international migrants, women's mobility has generally been overlooked in the literature. Quantifying and characterizing female migration should lead to a better understanding of the forces that shape international migration. We build an original data set providing gender-disaggregated indicators of international migration by educational attainment for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. We find that women represent an increasing share of the immigration stock in the OECD countries and exhibit higher skilled emigration rates than men. © 2009 The Population Council, Inc.

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international migration labor migration womens employment skilled labor educational attainment gender issue emigration OECD
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00277.x
ISSN: 00987921
Cited by: 143
Original Language: English