Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46420 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3479
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is more generous towards people who live in relatively disadvantaged regions, it retards the out-migration that is part of the market process, thereby slowing economic development and contributing to the persistence of regional inequality in earned incomes. The survey shows, however, that there is no evidence in the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the insurance system has altered internal migration patterns in Canada in a substantial manner.
Subjects: 
regional variation in unemployment insurance generosity
internal migration
interprovincial migration
earned income
comprehensive income differentials
index of insurance generosity
labour market attachment
conditional logit model
JEL: 
R23
J61
J68
H77
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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