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attractiveness can help provide some benchmarks.
How does your country compare? Find out by visiting: www.oecd.org/migration/ talent-attractiveness/
The data shows, for instance, that Australia is particularly attractive to highly educated workers, while Canada appeals to entrepreneurs and international university students are drawn to Switzerland.
Not all jobs are created equal
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lower-paid jobs. This also weighs down average salaries in the economy as a whole. Between 2010 and 2016, for example, close to 90% of all new jobs in France were created in activities with below-average
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New businesses are thriving, and are generating millions of new jobs along the way. However, many of these new jobs are in low-productivity sectors. This means new jobs in hospitality and food services in Great Britain and Greece, for instance, and in construction in Italy and Norway. In almost every major OECD economy, the top three sectors generating the largest net employment gains over the period 2010 to 2016 were restaurants, health and residential care activities, and these had below average labour productivity. In contrast, the level of jobs created in small and medium-sized firms with above median productivity has been dropping since 2006. Economists believe that this has contributed to lower growth in OECD productivity in recent decades.
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Answering such questions is important for securing the talent that is so essential for sustainable, inclusive growth, and our new OECD database on migration
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Does your country have what it takes to attract talent? Young people entering the labour market today are more educated than older workers, and as digitalisation and globalisation reshape demand for skills, countries look beyond their borders to meet their needs. However, luring in highly qualified migrants is easier said than done, since many of them, whether in areas such as health, technology or finance, find themselves in the driving seat as the competition for global talent intensifies and in a position to pick their destinations more carefully in line with their own career plans. Countries have to be appealing to them, as well as the other way around. So, what makes skilled migrants choose one country instead of another?
OECD countries for potential migrants Top Attractiveness 10-ranked countries forof highly educated workers, entrepreneurs and university students Top 10-ranked 10-ranked countries countries for for highly highly educated educated workers, workers, entrepreneurs entrepreneurs and and university university students students Top
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wages; this number was close to 65% in Germany and the UK, and over 75% in the US. oe.cd/obs/2Uk
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