Data are from the Canadian census. Annals of Regional Science, Vol. The results support the argument that migration is a selective process. College educated young adults have a greater hazard rate of making an initial migration but a lower hazard rate of re-migration, suggesting they have less need of corrective geographic behavior. Individuals who have moved two or more times are less responsive to national unemployment conditions than first time migrants.
Migration is related to the timing of unemployment within a sojourn.
The findings suggest that migrant stock is an important determinant of how labor markets function. Settlement and Resettlement Studies on international and internal settlement and resettlement, including programs concerned with refugees and their settlement and with forced migrations. International Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2, Spring 1993. Recent trends in the migration of refugees from developing countries are outlined.