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

By E. Artuç, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden, Christopher A. Parsons. Social Science Research Network, 2014

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006 (2016, methodology): “Artuc et al. (2013), the last update of the Docquier and Marfouk (2006), data provide information on gender, country of origin, and educational level of the foreign-born population in 1990 and 2000. These data were extended by Brücker et al. (2013) for 20 OECD countries to two additional census year”
Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition (2017, methodology): “This variable, denoted by N si , is taken from Artuç et al. (2015), which proxies the size of the native population in country i from which we can extract the proportion of college educated ( li) and low-skilled ( li).”
Global Talent Flows (2016, unknown): “) While OECD countries constitute less than a fifth of the world’s population, these countries host two-thirds of high-skilled migrants (OECD Factbook 2013; Artuç et al. 2015).”
Female Migration: A Way Out of Discrimination (2015, background): “…migration processes started to show up in both the economic literature (see Cobb-Clark, 1993; Cortes, 2015; Docquier et al., 2012; Kofman, 2000; Morrison et al. 2007; Zlotnik, 1995, 1990) and official statistics (Artuç et al., 2015; Docquier et al., 2009; Dumont, Martin and Spielvogel, 2007).”