Incentives for international migration of scientists and engineers to Japan

International Migration

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 67-91

  Murakami, Yukiko ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INCENTIVE; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; LANGUAGE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SKILLED LABOR; WAGE GAP;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 70149115666     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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