Focus Group on Human Resources and Mobility

Lead country: Norway

Contact person: Anders Ekeland , STEP Group

Objective:

To analyse the role of the mobility of human resources in the circulation of knowledge within a NIS. The work will follow three lines:

• Benchmarking of internal mobility rates across the participating countries
• A study of international mobility in terms of brain drain and gain
• Recommendations for the development of relevant indicators

Sub-activity on Nordic mobility

• The Nordic Mobility Project: Proposals for Basic Classifications, Definitions and Preliminary Tables

Additional papers

• Mark C. Regets, Research and Policy Issues in High-Skilled International Migration : A Perspective with Data from the United States

Meeting of 26-27 October 2000, Paris

• Daniel Martinelli, The Labour Market Entry and Mobility of Young French PdDs
• Sveva Avveduto, International mobility of PhDs
• Carolina Cañibano, Comments on the Calculation of Mobility Rates of Human Resources in Science and Technology
• Ebbe K. Graversen, Cyclicality of Mobility Rates on Human Capital : Evidence from Danish register data, 1988-97
• Ebbe K. Graversen, Human Capital Mobility - A Comparable Knowledge Indicator
• Erzsébet Viszt, Measuring Mobility of Human Resources Devoted to Science and Technology in Hungary
• Sami Mahroum, Inflows of Foreign Academics to OECD-Europe: The UK Case. An Interim Report
• Ebbe K. Graversen, Migration between the Nordic Countries : A Knowledge-flow Perspective

Meeting of 15-16 June 2000, Rome

• Tom Vandenbrande, First Exploration of the Belgian HRST Data
• Jaromír Gottvald, Czech Labour Market Flows, 1993-99
• Ebbe K. Graversen, Inflow Mobility Rates over a Decade
• Ebbe K. Graversen, Human Capital Mobility into and out of Research Sectors in the Nordic Countries
• Markku Virtaharju and Michael Akerblom, Finnish Mobility Rates , 1988-97
• Alex Stimpson, Preliminary Results from the HRST Mobility Analysis

Meeting of 6-7 April 2000, Budapest

Minutes of the meeting

• Erzsebet Lindner and Elisabeth Viszt, Measuring Labour Mobility in Hungary (statistics and pilot studies)

Kick-off workshop, 10 December 1999, Paris

Minutes of the meeting

Presentations by participants:

• Mobility of Highly Qualified Manpower : A Feasibility Study on the Possibilities to Construct Internationally Comparable Indicators
• Financing and Effects of Internationalisation in Higher Education: The Economic Costs and Benefits of International Student Flows (1998)
• New Science and Technology Indicators for a Knowledge-based Economy ( Part 1 , Part 2 )

Results from the previous phase

• " Formal Competencies in the Innovation Systems of the Nordic Countries: An Analysis Based on Register Data "
• Reports and documents