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Location, location, location: Examining the rural-urban skills gap in Canada
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This article explored contemporary rural-urban differences in human capital using refined measures of literacy and numeracy skills, finding that rural residents obtain lower levels of education than their urban counterparts and those that do obtain post-secondary training often migrate to urban regions offering abundant employment opportunities and higher wages.About:
This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2019-12-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rural area & Population.read more
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Will They Stay or Will They Go? Examining the Brain Drain in Canada's Provincial North.
TL;DR: This study employs multiple waves from Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey linked to each youth's reading scores from the Programme for International Student Assessment, and longitudinally to their tax filer information until age 30 (T1 Family Files).
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Study on Spatial–Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Restrictive Factors of Urban–Rural Integration in Northeast China from 2000 to 2019
Yige Sun,Qingshan Yang +1 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors used a coupling coordination model and an obstacle degree model to measure the development level of urban-rural integration in 34 prefecture-level cities in Northeast China from 2000 to 2019.
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Differentiation Policy and Access to Higher Education in Northern Ontario, Canada: An Analysis of Unintended Consequences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a northern critique of differentiation policies grounded on the distance deterrence effects literature, and propose that differentiation policies threaten to exacerbate existing provincial north-south disparities in HE access, hampering human capital formation and economic development in northern communities.
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Rural Digital Innovation Hubs as a Paradigm for Sustainable Business Models in Europe’s Rural Areas
Simona Stojanova,Nina Cvar,Jurij Verhovnik,Nataša Hoić Božić,Jure Trilar,Andrej Kos,Emilija Stojmenova Duh +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a case study of the Divina Wine Hub Šmarje is presented as an example of a rural digital innovation hub (DIH) whose activities are aimed at supporting rural businesses and individuals.
Roots and Stems? Examining Field of Study Choices Among Northern and Rural Youth in Canada
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine regional inequalities in accessing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-related fields at both the university and non-university levels and find that location of residence does impact field choices, as students from northern and rural areas were less likely to enter STEM as well as non-STEM, university programs.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries, and extended their previous estimates for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provided projections for 2000.