Arbeitspapier

Occupation-specific south-north migration

This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two occupational categories generally requiring tertiary education, and among clerks and legislators, senior officials and managers. At a more disaggregated level, I find that the probability that a professional in the OECD worked as a physical, mathematical and engineering science professional or as a life science and health professional was significantly larger for south-north migrants compared to OECD natives. It is exactly these occupational categories, characterized by internationally transferable skills, that exhibited significantly larger brain drain rates than teaching professionals, whose skills are rather country-specific. The employment shares of most types of professionals and technicians and associate professionals, as well as of clerks and corporate managers were significantly smaller in the migrant-sending countries compared to the receiving countries. The data further suggest a non-negligible brain waste due to imperfect transferability of skills acquired through formal education, since south-north migrants with a university degree more often worked in occupational categories requiring less than tertiary education compared to OECD natives.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 328

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
international migration
brain drain
human capital
transferability of skills
occupational employment structure
Brain Drain
Auswanderung
Berufsstruktur
Entwicklungsländer
Einwanderung
Facharbeiter
Überqualifikation
Nord-Süd-Beziehungen
OECD-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Heuer, Nina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
(wo)
Tübingen
(wann)
2010

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-47906
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Heuer, Nina
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Entstanden

  • 2010

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