Do the best graduates leave the peripheral areas of the Netherlands?

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 521-537

  Venhorst, Viktor ^a   Van Dijk, Jouke ^a   Van Wissen, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Higher educated graduates; Human capital; Migration; Multinominal logit; Periphery; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649435671     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2010.00629.x     Document Type: Article

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