A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Artuc, Erhan ; Docquier, Frederic ; Ozden, Caglar ; Parsons, Christopher

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: BRAIN DRAIN;    BRAIN GAIN;    CENSUS DATA;    CENSUSES;    CITIZENSHIP;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6863
RP-ID  :  WPS6863

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Discussions of high-skilled mobilitytypically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthiercountries, which ignore movements to and between developingcountries. This paper presents, for the first time, a globaloverview of human capital mobility through bilateralmigration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000,and calculation of nuanced brain drain indicators. Buildingon newly collated data, the paper uses a novel estimationprocedure based on a pseudo-gravity model, then identifieskey determinants of international migration, andsubsequently uses estimated parameters to impute missingdata. Non-OECD destinations account for one-third ofskilled-migration, while OECD destinations are declining inrelative importance.