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A GENDERED ASSESSMENT OF THE BRAIN
DRAIN
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.
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