This paper examines gender differentials in the international migration of professionals, and how this varies by country, industry, age, and years of experience. We leverage data from LinkedIn, the largest professional networking website, to construct Immigrant and Emigrant Gender Gap Indexes (iGGI and eGGI). These indexes measure inflows and potential outflows. The findings indicate that, among LinkedIn users, the global population of immigrant professionals is at gender parity. The professional migrant population is majority‐female in key destination countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and France as well as emerging destinations like South Korea and Singapore. Our results show that the mobility of women migrants is driven by industries like finance, healthcare, and real estate. We find evidence of positive selection among women migrant professionals in key destination countries and industries. Our results indicate that men are more open to international relocation than women, suggesting that men express higher migration aspirations, but men and women have similar rates of observed mobility. The paper makes novel contributions to the literature on migration aspirations, behavior, and selectivity. Methodologically, we develop a new dataset and appropriate measures to complement existing sources to study professional migration across a wide range of countries.

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LinkedIn 上专业人士国际移民中的全球性别差距

本文研究了专业人员国际移民中的性别差异，以及这种差异如何因国家、行业、年龄和经验年限而变化。我们利用来自最大的专业社交网站 LinkedIn 的数据来构建移民和移民性别差距指数（iGGI 和 eGGI）。这些指数衡量流入和潜在流出。研究结果表明，在 LinkedIn 用户中，全球移民专业人士人口处于性别平等状态。在美国、英国、澳大利亚和法国等主要目的地国家以及韩国和新加坡等新兴目的地，职业移民人口以女性为主。我们的结果表明，女性移民的流动性是由金融、医疗保健和房地产等行业推动的。我们发现，在主要目的地国家和行业的女性移民专业人士中，存在积极选择的证据。我们的结果表明，男性比女性更愿意接受国际搬迁，这表明男性表达了更高的迁移愿望，但男性和女性观察到的流动性相似。该论文对有关移民愿望、行为和选择性的文献做出了新的贡献。在方法论上，我们开发了一个新的数据集和适当的措施来补充现有资源，以研究广泛国家的专业移民。