What Drags and Drives Mobility: Explaining Canada’s Aggregate Migration Patterns

David Amirault, Daniel de Munnik () and Sarah Miller

Staff Working Papers from Bank of Canada

Abstract: Using census data at the economic region level from 1991 to 2006 and a gravity model framework, this paper examines the factors that influence migration within Canada. Results from both Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood and negative binominal regression models suggest that provincial borders are statistically significant barriers to migration but the magnitude of their effect varies by model specification. The regression results also indicate that differences in employment rates, household incomes and language are important in explaining migration between Canadian economic regions. We also find evidence that the negative effect of distance on migration may be declining over time.

Keywords: Econometric and statistical methods; Labour markets; Regional economic developments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2012
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