OECD: Skilled workers become more and more mobile

High-skilled migration has increased by 63 per cent between 2000/01 and 2010/11, finds the OECD. Half of the 31 million highly educated migrants in OECD destinations in 2010/11 were women, one quarter of all highly skilled migrants were from Asia and Oceania.

However, the greatest rise in the number of highly educated emigrants is recorded for Sub-Saharan Africa which is the region mostly affected by the risk of brain drain. The organisation finds it „a worrying trend“, though, that migrants’ skills are not fully utilised in the labour markets of destination countries: the report finds that close to eight million migrants with tertiary education are working in low- and medium-skilled jobs.

Barbara Bierach

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