Inter-Provincial Migration Intentions of Family Physicians in Canada: The Roles of Income and Community Characteristics Intentions de migration interprovinciale chez les médecins de famille au Canada : rôles du revenu et des caractéristiques locales

Abstract The inter-provincial migration patterns of family physicians in Canada show that some provinces like Newfoundland and saskatchewan experience persistent net out-migration, while others, including Ontario and British Columbia, are destinations more often than origins of migrants. Governments in provinces exhibiting net out-migration have responded with a number of incentive and recruitment programs. In this study, we investigate the determinants of the stated interprovincial migration intentions of 3,995 rural and urban family physicians in the 2010 wave of the National Physician survey. We consider a range of physician characteristics, community attributes and working conditions. We find that in the intention to move, higher compensation has a modest effect, while the community characteristics have research paper