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Jean-Christophe Dumont; John P. Martin; Gilles Spielvogel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2920
"Two trends in international migration flows have attracted much attention recently: (i) the
growing feminisation of migration flows; and (ii) the increasing selectivity of migration towards
the highly skilled, which in turn has given rise to renewed concerns about the “brain drain”
consequences for the sending countries. The two issues have not been considered jointly,
however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by
looking at the gender dimension of the brain drain, based on a new comparable data set that
has been collected by the OECD and which allows us to identify people by country of
residence, place of birth, gender and level of education."