Continuity or change? How the onset of COVID‐19 affected internal migration in Australia

• Published in: Population space and place Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. e26 - n/a
• Main Authors: Perales, Francisco, Bernard, Aude
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Australia; COVID-19; Employment; HILDA; Internal migration; Labor migration; Migration; mobility; pandemic; Pandemics; reasons for migrating; Residential mobility; residential relocation; trends; Australia; HILDA; mobility; COVID‐19; reasons for migrating; internal migration; residential mobility; residential relocation; Australia; pandemic; trends

Despite anecdotal evidence of a COVID‐19 induced decline in the intensity of interstate migration in Australia, population‐level evidence is limited. The recent release of the 2020 wave of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey provides a unique opportunity to robustly...