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The Demography of Migration

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The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration

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This chapter emphasises the demographic effects that migration makes to both sending and receiving areas in terms of population change, age-sex compositions and subsequent demographic processes, such as fertility, ageing and further internal or international migration. Underlying the framework is a multiregional demographic model, which connects populations together through origin–destination migration flows. To illustrate the framework, an analysis of the role of internal migration in regional population change is presented for the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory from 1981 to 2011.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been funded by the Australian Research Council as part of the Discovery Project on ‘The Demographic Consequences of Migration to, from and within Australia’ (DP150104405).

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Raymer, J., O’Donnell, J. (2021). The Demography of Migration. In: Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., Partridge, M. (eds) The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration. Footprints of Regional Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6_4

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