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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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The urban–rural gap in university attendance: determinants of university participation among canadian youth
K. Bruce Newbold,W. Mark Brown +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored factors that may account for university participation among Canadian youth, including access to universities, family characteristics, and local labor market characteristics that may increase the incentive for urban youth to attend university.
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Helping communities help themselves: Industry-community relations for sustainable timber-dependent communities
Thomas M. Beckley,William Reimer +1 more
TL;DR: A model for company-community relations that will foster sustainable communities given the new realities that exist in rural Canada is outlined and several ideas for corporate action to address these challenges are offered.
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Benchmarking Canada's Performance in the Global Competition for Mobile Talent
Surendra Gera,Thitima Songsakul +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined international mobility in terms of the stock and flow of high-skilled workers, assesses whether Canada attracts a "fair share" of internationally mobile skilled workers, and discusses immigration policies that influence a country's relative performance in attracting these workers from abroad.
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A General Approach for Using Data in the Comparative Analyses of Learning Outcomes.
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating determinants of learning outcomes is proposed, which facilitates the process of theorizing and hypothesizing on the relationships and processes concerning lifelong learning as well as their antecedents and consequences.