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  • Title: Provincial out-migration patterns of Canadian elderly: characterization and explanation.
    Author: Ledent J, Liaw K.
    Journal: Environ Plan A; 1989 Aug; 21(8):1,093-111. PubMed ID: 12316109.
    Abstract:
    "Interprovincial migration patterns of Canada's elderly are examined and compared with their nonelderly counterparts, by using data from Revenue Canada's income tax file for a fifteen-year period (1966/67-1980/81)." The results indicate that departure rates and patterns of destination choice are broadly similar for both groups, although "destination choice of the elderly was relatively sensitive...to environmental factors, whereas that of the nonelderly was relatively sensitive to labor-market variables...."
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