title: Self-selection and intermunicipal migration in Canada.
abstract: "This paper investigates individual intermunicipal migration behaviour in Canada within the context of a human capital model that adjusts for the migrant's selectivity in computing expected income gains.  In addition to the typical regional determinants of migration, housing and labour market characteristics are found to influence intermunicipal migration significantly, the effects differing with age.  Structural coefficients remained more or less stable during the decade 1971-1981.  It is shown that the failure to adjust income gains for selectivity bias results in an underestimation of the migration-impacts of income gains and municipal-specific factors."
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Choudhury
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D002170:Canada; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005843:Geography; D006280:Health Workforce; D006798:Housing; D007182:Income; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Age Factors; Americas; Canada; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Housing; Human Resources; Income; Labor Force; Migrants; Migration; Migration, Internal; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution