Brain drain from Turkey: the case of professionals abroad

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Guengoer, Nil Demet
Tansel, Aysıt
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Purpose - The paper aims to present research findings on the return intentions of Turkish professionals residing abroad, where the targeted group comprises individuals working at a full-time job abroad who possess at least a tertiary level degree.
Skilled migration, Brain drain, Return migration, Return intentions, Higher education, Turkey
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31714
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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N. D. Guengoer and A. Tansel, “Brain drain from Turkey: the case of professionals abroad,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER, pp. 323–347, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31714.
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