Lifetime interprovincial migration in Canada: looking beyond short-run fluctuations.
This article studies the lifetime interprovincial migration of the Canada-born elderly (aged 60 and over), based on the data of the 1996 population census. The outcomes of the lifetime migration are found to be highly consistent with the human capital investment theory: there were substantial net tr...
| Published in: | Canadian Geographer Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 168 - 191 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Summer 2004
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