Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

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

Daniela Perrotta, Elizabeth Marie Jacobs, Tom Theile, Emilio Zagheni, Sarah Charlotte Johnson, André Grow-Böser; in Collaboration with Carlos Callejo Penalba (Aalto University, Finland), Kiran Garimella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA), Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Doha, Qatar), Helga de Valk (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands)

The causes and consequences of the migration of high-skilled individuals are difficult to assess, often because we do not have relevant data. This project leverages a mostly untapped source, LinkedIn data for advertisers, to measure and understand migration patterns of professionals across European countries.  Detailed Description

Publications

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

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

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

Perrotta, D.; Johnson, S. C.; Theile, T.; Grow, A.; de Valk, H.; 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)