The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon? A Survey of the Literature

Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi & L. Alan Winters
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Copyright 2004
ISBN 9780226036151
Challenges to Globalization
Book: Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics
Book editors: Robert E. Baldwin & L. Alan Winters
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi, and L. Alan Winters, Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics (University of Chicago Press, 2004), chap. 7, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/challenges-globalization-analyzing-economics/brain-drain-curse-or-boon-survey-literature.

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