Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème" three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 229, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 679-705

  Docquier, Frédéric ^a,b   Rapoport, Hillel ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Netspar   (Belgium)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

African medical brain drain; Brain drain; European brain drain; Indian diaspora; International migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749133653     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110507522-002     Document Type: Article

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