Volume 6, Number 3 (Summer) 1971
Comay, Yochanan. 1971. "Influences on the Migration of Canadian Professionals." Journal of Human Resources 6(3):333-344.
The human capital approach has increased our understanding of migration as an act of investment and highlighted the importance of geographical movements by capital-laden professional manpower. This article analyzes some determinants of migration for such personnel and gauges the relative importance of costs and benefits for professional manpower migrating between Canada and the U.S. Determinants of migration, in order of statistical significance, were U.S. education, highest degree, employment mobility, ethnicity, and region of origin. An important conclusion is that sending Canadians to the U.S. for graduate education entails a high risk of nonreturn. The results also cast doubt on the view of Canada as a bridge in the migrational flow from the rest of the world to the U.S.
The author is a member of the Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The research reported in this article was supported by the Canadian Department of Manpower and Immigration and the Population Council; it benefited from the advice of Professors Albert Rees and Ray Fair of the Economics Department, Princeton University. The views expressed are the author's alone.
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