The Gender Dimension of the Female Highly Skilled Migrants

Antonietta Pagano ()
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Antonietta Pagano: Università Niccolò Cusano

Chapter Chapter 11 in Gender Issues in Business and Economics, 2018, pp 147-157 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the strategic assets in economic systems is human capital, therefore, advanced and emerging economies have implemented several policies aiming at improving skilled professional inflow. However, highly skilled migrations analysis represents an underdeveloped area of research in geographical sector; gender studies are even more underrepresented. To this end, the paper intends to investigate the skilled labor migration, the gender dimension of female highly skilled professionals, with a special focus on the OECD area. The author, thus, will provide an analysis of the destinations countries, sectorial differences, and labor market integration, in order to show the difficulties female human capital has to face in their migratory project.

Keywords: International labor market; Human capital; Gender differences; Migration policies; Skilled migrations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65193-4_11

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