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200Gordon H HansonTable 12.2: Share of OECD Immigrants by Sending Region, 2000Share of Immigrants byChange inOECD Receiving RegionOECD ShareAll North Asia,Low-income Sending Region OECD America Europe Oceania 1990 to 2000Mexico, Cen. Am., Caribbean 0.202 0.374 0.025 0.002 0.053Southeast Asia 0.102 0.137 0.039 0.160 0.016Eastern Europe 0.099 0.049 0.161 0.116 0.042Middle East 0.063 0.032 0.113 0.029 0.001South Asia 0.052 0.052 0.055 0.036 0.011North Africa 0.044 0.009 0.098 0.018 -0.006South America 0.041 0.050 0.031 0.035 0.010Cen., South Africa 0.036 0.021 0.061 0.021 0.007Former Soviet Union 0.029 0.023 0.042 0.010 -0.002Pacific Islands 0.004 0.003 0.001 0.027 0.000Total 0.672 0.750 0.626 0.454 0.132High-income Sending RegionWestern Europe 0.244 0.152 0.336 0.368 -0.111Asia, Oceania 0.055 0.062 0.018 0.156 -0.010North America 0.029 0.037 0.020 0.023 -0.011Total 0.328 0.251 0.374 0.547 -0.132Notes: This table shows data for 2000 on the share of different sending regions in the adult immigrantpopulation of the entire OECD and of three OECD sub regions. ‘High-income North America includesCanada and the United States and High-income Asia and Oceania includes Australia, HongKong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan. Source: author’s calculations using datafrom Beine et al. (2007).Log odds of emigration for tertiary educated–8 –6 –4 –2 0 2Source: Grogger and Hanson (2008)–8 –6 –4 –2 0 2Log odds of emigration for primary educatedFigure 12.2: Positive Selection of Emigrants—2000