Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada: An Empirical Study

✍ Scribed by Kathleen M. Day; Stanley Winer

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Series: Carleton Library Series; 223
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Given Canada's vast geography and uneven distribution of economic activity, almost all Canadians have at one time or another faced the question of whether an interprovincial move would make them better off.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tables
Figures
Preface
1 Public Policy and Interregional Migration: An Introduction to the Issues
2 Regional Dimensions of Public Policy in Canada
3 A Review of Four Decades of Empirical Research
4 An Empirical Model of Interprovincial Migration
5 From Theory to Measurement
6 Estimation
7 Exploring the Effects of Marginal Policy Reforms
8 Simulating Counterfactual Policy Regimes and Other Scenarios
9 What We Have Learned
Appendices
Appendix A: Data Sources
Appendix B: Construction of the Migration Data
Appendix C: Construction of the Unemployment Insurance Variables
Appendix D: Measuring the Probabilities of the Employment States by Age and Sex
Appendix E: Correlation Coefficients, and Additional Estimates by Age, Sex, and Income Class
Appendix F: Marginal Effect Formulas
Appendix G: Simulations and Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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