Migrants and International Economic Linkages: A Meta-Overview

Spatial Economic Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 359-376

  Nijkamp, Peter ^a   Gheasi, Masood ^a   Rietveld, Piet ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diasporas; foreign direct investment; gravity model; Immigration; meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859331594     PISSN: 17421772     EISSN: 17421780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2011.610814     Document Type: Article

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