Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
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- Amelie F. Constant & Bienvenue N. Tien, 2009. "Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 965, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
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- Amelie Constant & Bienvenue N. Tien, 2010.
"African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows,"
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1087, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
- Constant, Amelie F. & Tien, Bienvenue N., 2010. "African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows," IZA Discussion Papers 5353, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Keywords
skilled migration; Africa; colonization; networks; economic reasons;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
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2009-12-11 (Africa)
- NEP-ALL-2009-12-11 (All new papers)
- NEP-EEC-2009-12-11 (European Economics)
- NEP-INT-2009-12-11 (International Trade)
- NEP-MIG-2009-12-11 (Economics of Human Migration)
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