Is the grass really fairer on the other side? Migration and Inequality in Canada

This paper examines inequality within Canadian provinces and its eect on bilateral migration ows between 1981 and 2012. Through the availability of a large amount of data, a xed-eect OLS model is applied to isolate this eect. Inequality in the province of origin is a signicant driver of outward migration, once standards of living and labour market conditions are controlled for (through the inclusion of GDP per Capita or HDI and the unemployment rate). Relative inequality between provinces appears to be an insignicant determinant of net migration ows. The congurations of xed eects also eectively deal with possible problems in the form of multilateral resistance to migration.