4  D. Amirault, D. de Munnik and S. Miller, “Explaining Canada’s Regional Migration Patterns,” Bank of Canada Review (Spring 2013): 16–28. 5  Based on the 2006 Census, the migration rate in Canada was 4.6 per cent compared with 4.8 per cent for the United States. Bayoumi et al.
(2006) find that Canadian labour markets respond in a similar manner to their U.S. counterparts and are more flexible than those in major euro-area countries, while Partridge and Rickman (2009) find little overall evidence to suggest that provincial labour markets are more sluggish or less flexible than U.S. state labour markets.