Brain drain and factor complementarity

Economic Modelling

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 404-413

  Pieretti, Patrice ^a   Zou, Benteng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Brain drain; Complementarity; Growth; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249098637     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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