Are skilled women more migratory than skilled men?

This paper empirically studies emigration patterns of skilled males and females. In the most relevant model accounting for interdependencies between women and men’s decisions, we derive the gendered responses to traditional push factors. Females and males do not respond with the same intensity to the traditional determinants of labor mobility and gender-specific characteristics of the population at origin. Moreover, being other factors equal, the female willingness to follow the spouse seems to be much more pronounced with respect to the male one. From a quantitative perspective, our model reveals that skilled women are not more migratory than skilled men internationally, thus rejecting the existence of a genetic or social gender gap in international skilled migration.

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Document type	Document de travail (Working Paper)
Access type	Accès libre
Publication date	2009
Language	Anglais
Number of pages	30 pages
Collection	IRES Discussion papers - 2009021
Affiliations	UCL - ESPO/ECON - Département des sciences économiques ULB - DULBEA ULB - DULBEA
Links	http://www.uclouvain.be/3912.html http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/30450[Handle]

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	[boreal:118076]	Are skilled women more migratory than skilled men ?