Gender, migration and deskilling: A broad review of the literature

The global economy is increasingly characterized by two important phenomena. The first is the ever-growing importance of knowledge-based activities such as services, including finance and trade, communication, education, information technology (IT) and insurance (OECD, 1996), with estimations highlighting that half of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is derived from human capital. The second phenomenon is the unprecedented mobility of people within and across borders, with migration flows which tend to be increasingly feminized.

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