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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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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Garett Jones,W. Joel Schneider +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that a 1 point increase in a nation's average IQ is associated with a persistent 0.11% annual increase in GDP per capita, even when OECD countries are excluded from the sample.
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Academic Outcomes of Public and Private High School Students: What Lies Behind the Differences? [Social Assistance Use in Canada: National and Provincial Trends in Incidence, Entry and Exit]
TL;DR: This paper explored the dynamics of social assistance usage in Canada over this period using data based on tax files for between 2 and 4 million individuals in each year from Canada's Longitudinal Administrative Data - the LAD.
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The end of the urban-rural dichotomy? Towards a new regional typology for SME performance
TL;DR: In this article, the economic performance of 98 Municipal Regional Counties (MRCs) in the province of Quebec (Canada) in an urban-rural perspective is examined, using a set of spatial and industrial variables, from which they obtain 15 rural/urban types of MRCs.
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Unbalanced development characteristics and driving mechanisms of regional urban spatial form: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the unbalanced development characteristics of the regional urban spatial form using three indicators: urban spatial expansion size, development intensity, and distribution aggregation degree, and evaluated their driving mechanisms using spatial autocorrelation analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, linear regression, and geographically weighted regression.
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Barriers to physical activity for adults in rural and urban Canada: A cross-sectional comparison.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the odds of reporting individual and environmental barriers to physical activity in rural and urban adults, and explore interactions between rural-urban location and sociodemographic factors to characterize patterns in barriers.
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A Macro-level Approach to Examining Canada’s Primary Industry Towns in a Knowledge Economy
Sean B. O’Hagan,Ben P. Cecil +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the economic well-being of primary industry communities as well as ascertain if they are adequately preparing to compete in today's knowledge economy using a macro-level approach and found that diverse municipalities endured a greater era of development and are better positioned for success in the future.
Occupational skill level: The divide between rural and urban Canada
Alessandro Alasia,Erik Magnusson +1 more
TL;DR: In 2001, managerial and professional occupations were more concentrated in predominantly urban regions than in rural regions, while the intensity of unskilled occupations was sizably higher in predominantly rural regions.
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Knowledge Workers in Canada's Economy, 1971 to 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the emergence of the knowledge economy by examining the increasing importance of high-knowledge occupations over the period 1971-2001 and find that the increase in the proportion of the labour force that is classified to knowledge occupations was widespread.
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Academic Outcomes of Public and Private High School Students: What Lies Behind the Differences? [Social Assistance Use in Canada: National and Provincial Trends in Incidence, Entry and Exit]
TL;DR: This paper explored the dynamics of social assistance usage in Canada over this period using data based on tax files for between 2 and 4 million individuals in each year from Canada's Longitudinal Administrative Data - the LAD.