Medical tourism and health worker migration in developing countries

Economic Modelling

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 391-396

  Beladi, Hamid ^a   Chao, Chi Chur ^b   Ee, Mong Shan ^b   Hollas, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical tourism; Wage inequality; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027931301     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.12.045     Document Type: Article

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