Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2004-04-08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: >Even if people's preferences were uniform with respect to climate >(which I doubt they are; I have a perverse friend who simply revels in >Chicago winter), they would not be uniform with respect to population >density. Well, you know, I'm one of the peop

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Sampo Syreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact we might expand the rationale to something I once asked: in the > event totally free economy ever came about, and transportation continued > to get cheaper, would the total populus of the Earth eventually live in > a narrow band centered on the

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Warnick, Walter
List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Caplan Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Siberia and Canada With the collapse of internal migration restrictions, Russians are leaving Siberia for warmer locales in the south and big cities. No big surprise there

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Eric Crampton
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: > And you don't think it's mostly hot air? Think it would slow migration, at least at first. > So I take it that these income differences already count the central > government's subsidies to Newfoundland, etc.? I'll need to double check them, but yeah.

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2004-04-08, Christopher Auld uttered: >Well, for professionals under NAFTA there already is more or less free >migration. So do we have statistics on the migration characteristics of professionals? With pretty arrows, as in weather forecasts? That'd pretty much settle the question, especially

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2004-04-08, Bryan Caplan uttered: >Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada, >would Canada lose a lot of population to California, Florida, and other >more desirable locations? In fact we might expand the rationale to something I once asked: in the event totally free

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Shadowgold
In a message dated 4/8/2004 3:34:39 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada,>would Canada lose a lot of population to California, Florida, and other>more desirable locations?In fact we might expand the rationale to s

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Bryan Caplan
Eric Crampton wrote: Mass migration would be incredibly unlikely in the short term. Too much Canadian nationalism. And you don't think it's mostly hot air? Longer term, though, increasing migration would put pressure on the Canadian govt to adopt more sensible policies to reduce outflow. At lea

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread zgocheno
to believe we'd see the same from Toronto. Besides, there's no hockey in Florida. - Zac Gochenour - Original Message - From: Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2004 1:59 pm Subject: Siberia and Canada > With the collapse of internal migrati

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Eric Crampton
Mass migration would be incredibly unlikely in the short term. Too much Canadian nationalism. Longer term, though, increasing migration would put pressure on the Canadian govt to adopt more sensible policies to reduce outflow. At least that would be my guess. There are huge regional differences

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Christopher Auld
Well, for professionals under NAFTA there already is more or less free migration. My casual impression is that most migration which does actually occur is retirement to certain areas in the southern US ("snowbirds"). Further immigration leniency would be unlikely to have large effects. Recall th

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Bryan Caplan
Can any Canada experts weigh in? That includes all Canadians. Eric? fabio guillermo rojas wrote: Yes - evidence: the population of Canada is highly clustered around the border. I have hunch they would bolt the second the border was opened. Fabio On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: Questi

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Rodney F Weiher
Maybe look at migration of the Northern tier US states and put in a climate variable. Except for those getting out of the concentration camps and leaving the economically unsustainable post-communist communities, I wonder how strong the climate variable is in Russian migration. Casual conversatio

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Check out: http://atlas.gc.cas/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/population/density It's a map of Canadian population density. Highest density around the great lake and the west coast. Otherwise, just a bunch of wawas up there. Fabio On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: > Can any Canada exp

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Yes - evidence: the population of Canada is highly clustered around the border. I have hunch they would bolt the second the border was opened. Fabio On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote: > Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada, > would Canada lose a lot of populati

Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Bryan Caplan
With the collapse of internal migration restrictions, Russians are leaving Siberia for warmer locales in the south and big cities. No big surprise there. Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada, would Canada lose a lot of population to California, Florida, and other more