Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nour S. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Migration of international students and mobilizing skills in the MENA Region
Abstract:  This paper uses both the descriptive and comparative approaches to  provide an overview of migration of international students from the  Middle East and North Africa MENA region and mobilizing skills in the  MENA Region. We fill the gap in the MENA literature and present a more  comprehensive and updated analysis of migration of international  students from the MENA region. Our findings support the first hypothesis  that the number of international students from the MENA region increased  substantially over the past years. Our results corroborate the second  hypothesis that international students from the MENA region are  concentrated in few countries. Our findings support the third hypothesis  that skills of international students can be better mobilized in their  countries of origin by addressing the push-pull factors that determine  migration of skills from the MENA region.     Keywords migration, international students mobility, mobilizing  skills, MENA region
Keywords: Education and Economic Development; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: General; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers; 
Classification-JEL: J60; J61; I25; .
Series:  Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 031
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/a78d4f3f-6d3f-4197-b9c7-20c6043a81be
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Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014031