Taxation and Skilled Indian Migration to the United States: Revisiting the Bhagwati Tax

Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  McHale, John ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Emigrant taxation; Human capital; Immigration research; India

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382433.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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