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Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US (Working Paper)

Working paper 1 Mar 2011 Inclusive Growth

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  • High Skilled and Low Skilled Emigration from Low Income Countries

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Jeffrey Grogger

Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy at Chicago Harris, University of Chicago

Gordon Hanson

Director, Center or Emerging and Pacific Economies, University of California - San Diego
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