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 women´s rights. However, the … costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women´s rights provided. The model predicts a non-linear relationship …

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 …

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 …

criticize the “care drain” as a new form of imperialism that the First World imposes on the Third World. However, migrant women …Migrant women are often stereotyped. Some scholars associate the feminization of migration with domestic work and … employed as domestic workers in Northern America and Europe represent only 2% of migrant women worldwide and cannot be seen as …

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs of …

into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …