Global talent flows

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Robert Kerr, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Robert Parsons, Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Robert Kerr, Caglar Ozden and Christopher Robert Parsons
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Christopher Robert Parsons and William Kerr

No 7852, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, the paper first reviews the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. Next, the determinants of global talent flows at the individual and firm levels are presented and some important implications are sketched. Third, the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission are reviewed. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries to successfully navigate this tangled web of global talent will be critical to their success.

Keywords: Human Migrations&Resettlements; International Migration; Skills Development and Labor Force Training; Labor Markets; Rural Labor Markets; Educational Sciences; Migration and Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10-05
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (52)

Downloads: (external link)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/793861475694096298/pdf/WPS7852.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Global talent flows (2017)
Journal Article: Global Talent Flows (2016)
Working Paper: Global Talent Flows (2016)
Working Paper: Global Talent Flows (2016)
Working Paper: Global Talent Flows (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7852

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().