The Effects of Language on the Gender Patterns of Highly Skilled Migration

Donald Lien and Erika Zuloaga

The International Trade Journal, 2021, vol. 35, issue 1, 60-78

Abstract: We study how sociocultural and cognitive institutions, as well as women’s rights, differentially influence highly-skilled women and men’s migration patterns. For this matter, we utilize language grammatical structures to account for cognition on gender expectations, in terms of professional careers, by incorporating these into a gravity model. We find language to be useful in explaining the gendered pattern of highly educated migrants, relative to men. Language, we discuss, is a potential variable to account for elusive institutions influencing important career decisions for female migrants, and is useful to advance policies that support them through comprehensive migratory policies.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2020.1848666

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