Remittances and the brain drain: Do more skilled migrants remit more?

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-191

  Faini, Riccardo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DRAIN; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCOME; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; MODELING; SKILLED LABOR;

EID: 34547921624     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhm006     Document Type: Article

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