Brain drain and technological relationship between skilled and unskilled labor: Brain gain or brain loss?

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1359-1368

  Fan, Xiaofeng ^a   Yakita, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain drain; Brain gain; Brain loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960622668     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0321-0     Document Type: Article

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