A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain / Docquier, Frederic

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Docquier, Frédéric.

Contributor:

Docquier, Frédéric.

Lowell, B. Lindsay

Marfouk, Abdeslam

Series:

Policy research working papers.

World Bank e-Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Access to education.

Brain Drain.

Developing countries.

Educational attainment.

Gender.

Gender and Development.

Gender gap.

Health, Nutrition and Population.

Immigration.

Migrant.

Migration.

Policy Research.

Policy Research Working Paper.

Population Policies.

Local Subjects:

Access to education.

Brain Drain.

Developing countries.

Educational attainment.

Gender.

Gender and Development.

Gender gap.

Health, Nutrition and Population.

Immigration.

Migrant.

Migration.

Policy Research.

Policy Research Working Paper.

Population Policies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (34 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2008

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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 drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. The data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's skilled migration and to analyze its causes and consequences for developing countries. The findings show that women represent an increasing share of the OECD immigration stock and exhibit relatively higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in educational attainment at origin. Equating women's and men's access to education would probably reduce gender differences in the brain drain.