'Brain drain' or 'brain circulation': Evidence from OECD's international migration and R&D spillovers

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 618-636

  Le, Thanh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN CAPITAL; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; OECD; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 53549097940     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: 14679485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2008.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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