The return migration patterns of Canadian seniors: insights from the 1991 cancer cohort study

Autor: Ashley Calhoun, Michael Haan, Zikuan Liu
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Population Research. 35:343-362
ISSN: 1835-9469
1443-2447
DOI: 10.1007/s12546-018-9213-z
Popis: Roughly one-fifth of all Canadians leave their birth province, usually as young adults, to seek opportunities in other parts of the country (or beyond, although we are unable to look at international migration here). As they exit the labour market in their later years, it is possible that they will return to their birth province. That is, out-migration in the past will result in return migration in the present and future. Using a unique dataset where 1991 Canadian census data are linked to annual place of residence data from 1986 to 2006, we are able to assess the prospect of a return migration boom by province of birth. Results show wide differences in the propensity to out-migrate, but similarly low propensities to return migrate. This suggests that there is unlikely to be a wave of returning baby boomers in the future. People, by and large, remain in the areas where they spent most of their adult years.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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