Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
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- Constant, Amelie F. & Tien, Bienvenue N., 2009. "Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?," IZA Discussion Papers 4615, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Skilled migration; Africa; colonization; networks; economic reasons;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2010-01-30 (Africa)
- NEP-MIG-2010-01-30 (Economics of Human Migration)
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