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| Title: | | Policy-induced internal migration : an empirical investigation of the Canadian case  |
| Authors: | | Day, Kathleen M. Winer, Stanley L. |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working papers 1605 |
| Abstract: | | We investigate the influence of public policy on interprovincial migration in Canada using new aggregated migration data for 1974-1996, the longest period studied so far. We consider the consequences of regional variation in a variety of policies, and also investigate the effects of certain extraordinary events in Quebec and in the Atlantic provinces. The results indicate that while the changing bias in the unemployment insurance system may have induced some people to move to the relatively high unemployment Atlantic region, the resulting flows are likely too small to have altered regional unemployment rates. In contrast, political events in Quebec in the 1970's and the closing of the cod fishery in 1992 appear to be associated with large changes in migration patterns. |
| Subjects: | | migration regional disparity public policy unemployment insurance conditional taxation data |
| JEL: | | R23 J65 J41 H7 H0 R58 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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