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Do higher salaries lower physician migration?
It is believed that low wages are an important reason why doctors and nurses in developing countries migrate, and this has led to a call for higher wages for health professionals in developing countries. In this paper, we provide some of the first estimates of the impact of raising health workers' salaries on migration. Using aggregate panel data on the stock of foreign doctors in 16 Organizati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1968
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-196806000-00006