Quantifying the negative impact of brain drain on the integration of European science

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Doria Arrieta, Omar A ^a,b   Pammolli, Fabio ^a,c   Petersen, Alexander M ^d  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b Cambridge Management Consulting Labs SpA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d Merced   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION;

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; ESTIMATION SCHEMES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS; SYNTHETIC CONTROL; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

INTEGRATION;

EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS;

EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MOBILITY;

EID: 85030786337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602232     Document Type: Article

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