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Return Migration, Self-selection and Entrepreneurship

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  • Catia Batista
  • Tara McIndoe-Calder
  • Pedro C. Vicente

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  • Catia Batista & Tara McIndoe-Calder & Pedro C. Vicente, 2017. "Return Migration, Self-selection and Entrepreneurship," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 79(5), pages 797-821, October.
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