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Introduction Introduction
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History History
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Statistical Simplifications and Complicated Mobilities Statistical Simplifications and Complicated Mobilities
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From Migration to Mobility? Forms of Skilled Labour Flows From Migration to Mobility? Forms of Skilled Labour Flows
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Motivations for Mobility: Firms Motivations for Mobility: Firms
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Motivations for Mobility: Individuals Motivations for Mobility: Individuals
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Consequences for Sending Countries Consequences for Sending Countries
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Consequences for Receiving Countries Consequences for Receiving Countries
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Consequences for Individuals Consequences for Individuals
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Policies Policies
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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27 International Skill Flows and Migration
Get accessJames Wickham PhD is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland where he was Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour Market Studies, Professor in Sociology, and Director of the Employment Research Centre. He has researched and published on employment, migration, and mobility in Ireland and the European Union including most recently with colleagues, New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland Post-2004 (Manchester UP, 2013).
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Published:06 March 2017
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Abstract
Migrants are increasingly skilled. Historically British emigration was disproportionately skilled and new comparative OECD data shows the continuing brain drain from Europe to the USA. However skilled migration is best understood as skilled mobility not migration: permanent settlement in a destination country is a limiting case within a multiplicity of movements exemplified by the international commuting of the financial services elite. Immigration policies increasingly attempt to attract the best and the brightest. Rising mobility is driven by firms’ recruitment policies, but also by individuals’ motivations which are often non-financial. Skilled mobility is now claimed to benefit both origin and destination countries through circular migration and knowledge transfer. However, skilled mobility can also promote privatisation of higher education in origin countries and lower investment in training in receiving countries. A typology of skilled mobility suggests some forms can increase income inequality in destination countries.
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