What affects international migration of European science and engineering graduates?

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 407-421

  de Grip, Andries ^a,b   Fouarge, Didier ^a   Sauermann, Jan ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Migration; Scientists and engineers; University graduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954569033     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590903434828     Document Type: Article

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