Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Studying International Migration of High-Skilled Professionals by Using Large-Scale Digital Trace Data

Daniela Perrotta, Elizabeth Marie Jacobs, Tom Theile, André Grow-Böser, Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with Sarah Charlotte Johnson (MPIDR), Carlos Callejo Penalba (Aalto University, Finland), Kiran Garimella (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA), Ingmar Weber (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany), Helga de Valk (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute / University of Groningen, Netherlands)

The causes and consequences of high-skilled migration are difficult to assess, often due to a lack of data. This project leverages a mostly untapped data source, LinkedIn, to study migration intentions and observed mobility patterns of professionals across countries.  Detailed Description

Openness to job-related relocation between European regions

Chord diagram of the numbers of LinkedIn users open to relocation between two countries, aggregated to European regions. Direction is indicated by arrowhead and size by the width at the base of the arrow. Proportions have been scaled within each region. © Perrotta, D., S.C. Johnson, T. Theile, A. Grow-Böser, H. De Valk and E. Zagheni (2022). Openness to migrate internationally for a job: evidence from LinkedIn data in Europe. In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-22): Atlanta, Georgia and online, June 6th - 9th, 2022; hybrid conference, 759–769. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2022)

Publications

Jacobs, E. M.:

On the up and up: the job mobility of skilled return migrants

Social Forces, 1–22. (2024)    

Jacobs, E. M.; Theile, T.; Perrotta, D.; Zhao, X.; Anastasiadou, A.; Zagheni, E.:

Global gender gaps in the international migration of professionals on LinkedIn

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-037. (2024)    

Sîrbu, A.; Goglia, D.; Kim, J.; Magos, Maximilian P.; Pollacci, L.; Spyratos, S.; Rossetti, G.; Iacus , S. M.:

International mobility between the UK and Europe around Brexit: a data-driven study

Journal of Computational Social Science, 1–32. (2024)    

Perrotta, D.; Johnson, S. C.; Theile, T.; Grow, A.; de Valk, H. A. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Openness to migrate internationally for a job: evidence from LinkedIn data in Europe

In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-22): Atlanta, Georgia and online, June 6th - 9th, 2022; hybrid conference, 759–769. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2022)    

Perrotta, D.; Johnson, S. C.; Theile, T.; Grow, A.; de Valk, H. A. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Openness to migrate internationally for a job: evidence from LinkedIn data in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-007. (2022)