Comparing Population Mobility in Australia and New Zealand

摘要: Despite its pre-eminent role as an agent of spatial change, little attention has been given to the way population mobility-varies between countries. Rigorous cross-national comparisons offer potentially valuable analytical insights, but require-close differences in data, measurement procedures and computation movement indicators. This paper-compares internal migration Australia New Zealand using a framework devised recent Anglo-Australian-research. It identifies subtle important data collection coding, shows that Zealanders-display consistently higher intensities, possibly due compositional effects. this, close parallels in-the causes patterns redistribution within two countries, is exerting relatively large aggregate-impact on distribution human settlement Australia. Opportunities for further research are discussed.