The biomedical workforce in the US: an example of positive feedbacks

Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 240-261

  Stephan, Paula E ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78649876326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857930378.00017     Document Type: Chapter

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