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The brain drain phenomenon has attracted significant attention due to the effects on service delivery and productivity in sending countries. The increased share of women amongst skilled migrants poses further challenges to both the assessment of the impacts of brain drain, and to the design of policy interventions aimed at strengthening service delivery. This seminar is based on the paper "A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain " which shows the extension of the Docquier-Marfouk data set on brain drain including emigration stocks and rates by level of schooling and gender for 195 countries in 1990 and 2000. The authors 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. The seminar will address the methodological issues of the data set as the new sources used, the definition of what a migrant is, and the computation of brain drain gendered indicators. This data set can be used to capture recent trends in women's brain drain and to analyze its causes and consequences for developing countries.

This seminar series aims to facilitate the dialogue between the analytical and research advances on migration, and the policy and operational dialogue on this increasingly important issue.

Presentations

• " A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain" ( pdf 786 KB)