Skilled Immigration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Docquier, Frédéric ^a   Rapoport, Hillel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bhagwati tax; Brain circulation; Brain drain; Emigration; Skilled immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382433.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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