期刊名称：Discussion Paper / Département des Sciences Économiques de l'Université Catholique de Louvain
印刷版ISSN：1379-244X
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
出版社：Université catholique de Louvain
摘要：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.
