Understanding remigration and innovation - an appeal for a cultural economic geography

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1732-1743

  Klaerding, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ECONOMY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INNOVATION; MIGRANT WORKER; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RETURN MIGRATION; SKILLED LABOR;

EID: 78049361140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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