Finishing degrees and finding jobs: Us higher education and the flow of foreign it workers

Innovation Policy and the Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-72

  Bound, John ^a   Demirci, Murat ^b   Khanna, Gaurav ^a   Turner, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 84930513786     PISSN: 15313468     EISSN: 15372618     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/680059     Document Type: Article

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