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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, National government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Desmond Beckstead; Statistics Canada. Economic Analysis Division. |
ISBN: | 9781100137995 1100137998 |
OCLC Number: | 552142777 |
Notes: | "Research paper." Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program. Issued also in French under title: Villes et croissance : niveaux de gains selon les régions urbaines et rurales au Canada : le rôle du capital humain. Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 4, 2010). |
Description: | 1 online resource (40 pages) |
Contents: | Abstract -- Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Data -- 4. Earnings differences across the urban-rural spectrum -- Earnings levels across the urban-rural spectrum -- Correlates of earnings differences -- 5. Multivariate analysis -- Earnings model -- Econometric issues -- Econometric results -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References. |
Series Title: | Canadian Economy in Transition Series. |
Responsibility: | by Desmond Beckstead, W. Mark Brown, Yusu Guo, and K. Bruce Newbold. |
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Abstract:
Using 2001 Census data, this paper investigates the extent to which the urban-rural gap in the earnings of employed workers is associated with human capital composition and agglomeration economies. Both factors have been theoretically and empirically linked to urban-rural earnings differences. Agglomeration economies--the productivity enhancing effects of the geographic concentration of workers and firms--may underlie these differences as they may be stronger in larger urban centres. But human capital composition may also drive the urban-rural earnings gap if workers with higher levels of education and/or experience are more prevalent in cities. The analysis finds that up to one-half of urban-rural earnings differences are related to human capital composition. It also demonstrates that agglomeration economies related to city size are associated with earnings levels, but their influence is significantly reduced by the inclusion of controls for human capital.
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- Citadins -- Canada -- Conditions économiques.
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- City dwellers -- Economic conditions.
- Human capital -- Econometric models.
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- Canada.
- Census.
- Census geographic units of canada.
- City.
- Coefficient of determination.
- Correlation and dependence.
- Econometrics.
- Economics.
- Economy.
- Economy of canada.
- Urban-rural earnings differences
- Human capital
- Agglomeration economies