Cognitive Mobility: Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas

George J. Borjas & Kirk B. Doran
Published Date
Copyright 2015
DOI 10.1086/676659
CONFERENCE HELD October 25, 2012
Book: US High-Skilled Immigration in the Global Economy
Book organizers: Sarah Turner & William Kerr
PUBLISHER: Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 33, S1, part 2

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