Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-55

  Agrawal, Ajay ^a   Kapur, Devesh ^b   McHale, John ^c   Oettl, Alexander ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Emigration; Ethnicity; Knowledge flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349312887     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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