jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender inequality on the female brain drain ratio as a result of effects of gender … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in …